This is something the filmmakers went out of their way to do even though both the T-rex animatronics were such fatties that they actually built the sets around them instead of trucking them from place to place.Īnd that's the thing about animatronics: Even though they're cheaper to make, they're really hard to use. The moment we need to see a close-up is when they switch to a robot, even though it in no way interacts with the surrounding environment. Look at the scene in The Lost World where the T-rex romps about San Diego like a drunk horse: Universal Studios Those gas prices are the most unrealistic-looking thing here. And while it might have just been a budget issue or the technological limitations of CGI at the time, the system worked, goddammit. Related: Photos Of The Past That Look Like Trippy Fantasy 4 CGI Was Originally Used As A Last Resort TriStar PicturesĮxcept for four minutes of screen time, every special effect you see in Jurassic Park was either an animatronic or Jeff Goldblum's enchanting chest hair. Basically it's Sin City, but with a less aggressive version of Mickey Rourke. Compare that to Godzilla, which looks beautiful but appears to take place in a gritty Pleasantville covered in volcano ash: Warner Bros. It's the actual world, with actual earth tones. Along with dumping shit-tons of money into the CGI, those movies didn't wash everything over with color grading to make it look like Middle-goddamn-earth.
This is why the effects in The Avengers and Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes look so darn good in comparison. But their point was to detract realism from the finished product, whereas Jurassic Park was (originally) about creating larger-than-life creatures in a real-world setting. Color grading was made popular by the Coen brothers after CGI became the go-to special effect, when they decided to use color grading to make O Brother, Where Art Thou? look like an old sepia-toned photograph. The reason you don't see this in Jurassic Park or other '90s movies is because it hadn't been invented yet.
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Then, because compulsion is a disease, I started removing the color grading from every shot in the trailer: Universal Studios Left: Before Right: Afterįor the life of my family, I can't fucking figure out why anyone would want to watch a movie that's filtered to look like someone refusing to remove their Ray-Bans. Universal Studios Left: Before Right: After Notice how everything in Jurassic World has a foggy layer of desaturated blue over it? It's subtle, and we've gotten used to it because every movie does it now, so just for shits, I swapped the two styles for comparison. If you're wondering what I mean by "color grading," take a look at this comparison between two similar scenes in Jurassic World and Jurassic Park: Universal Studios Top: Jurassic World Bottom: Jurassic Park Why do a bunch of us find the photorealistic carnage of the Genisys and Jurassic World trailers so woefully unappealing? The answer isn't dumb nostalgia (well, not just dumb nostalgia) but rather that the best CGI in the world might as well be The Scorpion King if the filmmakers fail to realize a handful of fundamental things about special effects, such as. Despite the fact that Terminator Genisys and Jurassic World are brimming with CGI that is objectively more realistic than the original films from the early '90s, so many people (myself included) seem to agree that the effects in the originals look better than the slick computer graphics of the modern sequels. Since then, both films have been praised for their inexplicably realistic effects, even though both movies have birthed a handful of sequels with much more powerful special effects technology at their disposal. It's been over two decades since CGI came careening through the silver screen to murder cops, lawyers, and other civil servants in Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park.
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