Timeless exchanges like: "I love you." "I know." Now that's movie magic.
shareCGI will also never best or outlast the great practical Visual Effects done by masters like Ray Harryhausen, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, etc.
shareI don't know. Those dinosaurs from the original JP still look pretty real to me and it's over 20 years old. CGI isn't going anywhere shoot it's really not even getting better. CGI from the 90's looks just as good as what is coming out today. The only difference is it took a lot longer back then. Dragon Heart, Star ship troopers and JP all took years of post to finish their CGI and they preplanned everything around their CGI shots. Today they kick out 20 times as much in 6 months.
But yes you are right Dialogue is king and far more important. I always say if a movie isn't quotable it couldn't have been very good.
Those effects in "JP," as good as they may still look, are still aging. One, on the other hand, can't say that about good writing.
shareNot true. Writing can age as well. Movies that were a product of their time such as the Net and you got mail have aged terrible and they don't have any CGI. Those scrips are so dated and relied on tech at the time to carry their movie. Even tho written reasonably well at the time they are cringe worthy today.
I get where you are coming from tho.
I hate sand....
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