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Originally Posted by zamler
Good question. How come T2 looks better than any Terminator film since? I think in large part it's because when you're limited in what you can do with CGI it keeps you grounded in reality. You aren't going to do something that greatly defies physics because you can't. Putting models on a track with a motion camera is still using actual physics. The T1000 had one trick, turn into a shiny liquid. Now the Terminator can shape into almost anything so they do it at every opportunity, and it looks stupid.
See the LOTR films they have some questionable effects but overall it feels real. Then CGI was considered good enough to replace practical work so they went that way in the Hobbit films. The visuals is many parts are awful.
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Agreed. Generally, it just seems like they used to put more thought into action pieces. T2 is a great example. Every car chase scene looks like it was painstakingly planned out to the finest detail. Now they just say...wouldn't it be cool if this happened and fire up the CGI.