Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> (I hate to admit it, but
> nowadays CGI has become more or less vulgar in most modern movies)

  By the way, it's curious that sometimes special effects which are too
good can be detrimental to the movie, while bad special effects can,
quite ironically, have the opposite effect. There's a rather curious
example of the latter:

  The movie Jaws was originally intended by its director to have a lot
more of the shark itself. However, in 1975 animatronics were at a rather
lousy level, and post-production was also in its infancy (so that flaws
could not be removed or improved in post-production) so the shark looked
very unrealistic.
  This caused the director to drastically change the contents of the
movie, and instead of concentrating so much on the shark, it concentrated
more on the human characters.
  The end result was a movie which is considered one of the best of all
times.

  (The sequels were all about the shark itself, and they are examples
of the worst movies ever.)

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                                                          - Warp

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