T2 is the only one I like, I’ve only seen a couple but T2 SLAPS.
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Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 4 months agoT2 was the greatest action film of all time imo. Your can’t top it, especially now when it would be all CGI. T2 is so damn impressive in part for the stunts and insane shit they were pulling, like the helicopter highway chase which now would be all CGI and lose all of its balls cause there’s no longer a badass stunt man on a chopper dodging overpasses
Facebones@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The scene where Arnold rides a Harley off an overpass is practical effects! I’ve seen the making of that scene and it’s glorious.
delirious_owl@discuss.online 4 months ago
T2’s villain wasn’t CGI?
antidote101@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not always… They had an amputee play him when he was being frozen near the end there and his leg and hand breaks off… The shattered a frozen mould of him… A few times he is played by acting twins… So for instance, there’s two Sarah Connors at the end, and John has to decide whose the evil twin?.. Well turns out Linda Hamilton has a twin sister, and she played the evil T2… And same for the portly redheaded security sheriff’s deputy in the psyche ward.
vexikron@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
The villain was CGI, but essentially everything else in the film was done with old school effects and actual filming locations.
Compare this to many, many modern movies where the stage is basically the size of oh about a basketball court and is surrounded by either green screens or high res displays with a few props, where the situation is essentially the inverse of T2: the only real thing is the actor and nearly everything else is CGI.
Hell even a lot of the shots of the wounded T1000 were done with sculpted mannequins and prosthetics and such.
Even in a what is probably the best current modern action movie series of John Wick, (though I have yet to see 4 so maybe this has changed) basically my only real gripe with it is that it uses CGI blood in action sequences instead of squibs.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He was, and very well done, in an age where CGI was not something to fall back on like it is now. It was used in conjunction with stunts and practical effects. It can be used for an element like the liquid metal, but once you start doing cgi car and helicopter chases, your brain knows that none of it is real and you may as well be watching a cartoon. When there’s practical effects and stunts, your brain knows to be impressed.