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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Every single one of those movies is at best mediocre, most are steaming piles of crap, and will most certainly not be thought about 25 years from now in the same way the Matrix is now (which I still think is a pile of crap but history proved me wrong), and then Star Wars 25 years before that. And they're not even "good" movies. But they exploded the imaginations of the entire world. There is nothing that happens on screen any more that makes me go "oh wow" because I have a computer too.
I don't even like music recordings anymore that isn't a live performance. I know what goes into music production now compared to even 20 years ago. Talented performances by talented performers hasn't been a thing for a long time. If a five minute metal song needs 65,000 edits, are they even really a band?
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Not to bring everything back to Dark Knight, but the moment the semi flips in the middle of Gotham was the last “oh wow” moment I had in a theatre.
Because they really flipped a truck in downtown Chicago.
That’s something about movies, for the most part, up until the end of the 20th century.
They’re really blowing something up.
They’re really chucking a stuntman through the air.
They’re really driving cars at high speeds.
They built a 4-mile stretch of highway to film the chase in Matrix Reloaded - that’s going to look good forever.
When the Titanic splits in half, that’s a real, to-scale model.
Every movie now has five minutes of VFX names attached to their end credits, and I can’t help but think of a story from the production of Empire Strikes Back where they spent like $100k trying to get a functional robotic 3P0 that could turn its head strapped to Chewie’s back.
The solution that made it into the film was “two guys and a fishing rod”.