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Originally Posted by LuvablePsycho
Yeah there's good and bad in every era. For example movies in the 70's and 80's had some of the worst special effects. It was easier to spot makeup on an actor or tell that a monster was just a puppet. But sometimes people did a very good job and made the special effects look as real as possible.
Same with CGI effects today. Some look really good and some are so obviously computer graphics.
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That's true, so many older monsters weren't very convincing, that is where the director didn't get creative enough. Obviously not seeing the monster at all is sometimes the scariest and horrifying scenes there are.
Then I think of 'The Thing 82' where the practical effects are more effective and scarier than any modern CGI monster effects I've yet seen. There's still something about an actual physical presence, though on film, that is weighty and creepy; and CGI has yet to capture that well enough.
The great thing about modern CGI is the engrossing photorealistic background settings. The giant (background) mattes of the past were great, but modern CGI worlds have been increasingly more interactive with the characters.