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Originally Posted by Coola Yagami
Exactly. A decade from now people can watch OOTS and be like 'oh, that's back when Megan Fox was relevant' or making fun of how outdated the technology is.
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Even with Jurassic Park, you can see the outdatedness of its groundbreaking effects. It happens to every movie. Of course, with JP, the effects are used well and are meant to be conform to live action environments as opposed to where CG can sometimes get out of hand these days by trying to get the live action elements to conform to the CG, which is why most of the CG in films like it and Twister still work very well despite easily spotted digital textures and particles. JP is also a good film experience, which goes to show what is truly important, the film experience as a whole.
It's really how the CG is used. The first Independence Day used a combination of miniatures and CG. The new film uses a lot more CG and has sequences that, in theory, are bigger in scope. Yet you feel the scope better in the first film. That's because when the ships first appear, they appear in the real world and we are often on ground level watching with the pedestrians. The new film didn't do that as much. Most will probably blame the CG, but it is really what is done to ground us into the story that makes or breaks a film experience.
With TMNT '90, it's not just the fact that they used Jim Henson's suits. There is so much more to it that makes these characters feel real. The moment between Donnie and Mikey as they wait for pizza, talking about what Splinter said. The scene where they find their lair destroyed and, essentially, their father gone. The campfire sequence. The moments between Danny and Splinter. The later scene when Casey and Danny rescue Splinter. It's the emotional integrity that sells the characters. Without that genuine quality, they'd just be guys in suits, like the kangaroo-like guys in Warriors of Virtue or the aliens from Spaced Invaders. (By the way, I wonder if this is the first time in a long, long time anyone has mentioned or remembered Warriors of Virtue and Spaced Invaders
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That's why the 1990 film has yet to be topped. It's the one that has done the best job at treating the characters like real people with real emotions.