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The most EPIC sfx ever!

posted 5 years ago by Heisenberg (6532)
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T2 was truly epic when it came out, it still is an awesome movie but it's difficult to understand how incredible were its sfx and their implementation in the film back then.

I can only say that everything seemed and felt real, even though it was mindblowing, never before seen stuff on the screen. Till then you could always see how the fx were made or figure out what was being done to achieve that visual. This was on another level.

Jurassic Park (two full years later) was amateurish compared to this: you could tell that there were no dinosaurs there and that Sam Neil was looking at the sky, and you could totally tell when they used animatronics instead of cgi.
T2 is a milestone, never before been anything like it and probably never will be another one.

[–] wearsalan (5554) 5 years ago

Don't agree with you.
Jurassic Park was awesome with its' SFX. In saying that though, credit to T2 for showing the way.

[–] Gd5150 (11435) 5 years ago

Agreed when it came out it blew people away. The whole morphing thing was brand spankin new.

[–] Heisenberg (6532) 5 years ago

I remember trying to figure out how the hell they did it.
I figured it was a series of overlapping fade outs, I didn't realize a computer was rendering the whole process from start to finish.
For those times it was amazing, it would be like seeying real life holograms today.

[–] Gd5150 (11435) 5 years ago

To me Predator was the first movie movie to do anything like that type digital visual effect. That one required several replays to figure out what we just saw. T2 came a few years later and blew people’s minds.

Agree with the other poster on Jurassic Park. The amazing thing is it’s CGI looks better than most the comic book garbage that’s coming out today.

[–] StoneKeeper (23636) 5 years ago

It truly is!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

It's incredible, really, how well it's held up and is actually still better than most modern CGI. Especially since all they were working on was archaic 100Mhz SGI workstations.

Like the other poster, I disagree with you re: JP. It's not on T2's level but again incredible what they achieved with early 90s computers.

[–] tom8 (3045) 5 years ago

Jurassic Park and T2 still hold up today.......

animatronics shits on CGI any day of the week.

because no matter what, it's there, it's real ! it's not a cartoon

just look at the bullshit trailer for the new terminator movie.... that plane scene!? GTFO

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I personally was somewhat pissed that the fx were really not that different from 'Flight of the Navigator' (which came out 5 years prior). It's only later in life after watching the 'Making of' documentaries that I began appreciating them.

[–] Heisenberg (6532) 5 years ago

Navigator had that ship, which was cool metallic looking etc, but it was done with the same fx as star wars 15 years before. It was an object placed in a background hiding the wires holding it, just very well done photographic fx.

T2 was never before seen stuff: till then they would have used stop motion to animate impossible things (like dinosaurs or robots). T2 didn't look like that at all, it looked real!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Well, back in 1991 I couldn't check how the ship was done, the Internet wasn't at hand, etc. But I remember watching T2 and thinking exactly this: Oh my! I don't get all that hype about the fx. For me, it's only slightly different than the ship from 'Navigator'.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

While Navigator is a great movie, I don't think it's single morphing sequence is even remembered. It also looked more ropey, too.

[–] SomeCodhopper (76) 5 years ago

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[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7545) 5 years ago

I agree about Terminator 2 but I disagree about Jurassic Park. It's funny, cause nothing in even the newest Jurassic Park movies today even looks as real as the stuff in the original.

[–] BeenSavage (570) 5 years ago

The T-Rex animatronic still holds up very well though.