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This effect gives interesting perspective on pre CGI movies. You see how movie makers conveyed emotions, effect without very limited toolset and built great movies without rubbing the visual organ constantly.

I find a lot of movies today are falling in the Lucas trap: too much CGI (cost reign supreme I guess). It's a bad soil for movies...

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Just compare "South Park" to "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within". CGI can't replace a good script.

I dunno. I still get goose bumps thinking about and watching the protagonist's hair swing realistically in the opening scenes of the FF movie. It was an awesome accomplishment for its time.

FF:TSW was more than 'look CGI' though, it was a failed movie, but there was a great deal of beauty in the landscape, characters etc. Epic was known for aesthetics mastery.

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