Often, in discussions about old movies, someone will say, “That movie couldn’t be made today.”, and inevitably someone else will disagree.
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Look up all the stunts Buster Keaton did, and shiver. Or The Little Rascals or Hal Roach’s Rascals, whatever they were called.
Or the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet - while probably one of the best versions ever, nobody today would dare to think doing a movie like that today - it would be criminal.
Birth of a Nation.
Although Tarantino would probably try, so long as he could star in it alongside Samuel L Jackson, and call Samuel L Jackson the n-word ‘for the cinematographic art of it, really, it’s crucial to the film’. Because, aside from feet, that’s his fetish.
not a film, but a show. Little Britain. God, they got away with soooo much.
Scream.
The killer would try to call the girl in the first scene and she would just be like “Ew, who actually calls on the phone?” and hit cancel. Roll credits.
Alternatively the scariest movie the girl ever saw would be Five Nights at Freddie’s.
I’m surprised this isn’t a joke in the newer Scream films. At least I don’t remember something like this.
Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, TMNT ‘89, Lord of the Rings.
Whatever the JP franchise is now, it will never go back to full scale animatronics, and without Stan Winston’s magic, it’ll never be quite what the first (and a bit of the second) were.
Cameron himself can’t recreate the magic of T2 even if his films make billions. He never risks having to “nail this in one shot” stunts.
As for TMNT. Nobody gives a shit they’re suits, we could suspend our disbelief and watched mindblowing performances by great stuntmen in some of the most advanced animatronics ever. Michael Bay can’t even fathom how much better that is.
The Hobbit was plagued by a lot of problems, but I don’t know if even Jackson could pull off the practical effects with digital overlay magic that was the first trilogy if he tried.
That era of Hollywood, practical first, digital to enhance (sparingly) is gone it seems. It’s sad Hollywood has forgotten that that boundary pushing era was what made those films iconic. Rexy had weight, she literally tore a car apart. You can see the chaos of the semi landing in the canal. The turtles hit. The Riders of Théoden truly rode for ruin. Tell me you don’t get giddy when you know that scene is about to hit.
Project Hail Mary was practical first. Real sets, real puppet, with digital enhancements. There is a scene that was filmed with loads of LEDs on wires to cover the shot in blinking red lights. I think it pays off hugely and the film is better for it all.
At the moment I think it’s an outlier and most films will continue to just film green screens and tennis balls but it might herald the return of practical, maybe even full-scale animatronics! I can only hope.
Jurassic Park used CGI for many of its dinosaur scenes, they weren’t all animatronic.
What animatronics were used in LOTR? Gollum was CGI.
I’m not saying you’re wrong but some of your examples don’t seem right.
In the sequel of The Thing they first used animatronics and later replaced them with CG. I’m still angry about what could have been an awesome movie. With CG it looks just bad.
Who is JP? Why is everyone throwing letters around assuming everyone else will understand.
The first two words of his comment were “Jurassic Park”…
Song of the South
Hell, I’m a bit surprised they managed to make that one in 1946.
ITT
You couldn’t make the sixth sense either, because people would already know the ending.
Heathers
Silent films using tens of thousands of performers and large-scale stage sets will probably never be made again.
This is because modern audiences take sound in films for granted, making it impossible to expect box office returns that match such an investment.
Like Metropolis by Fritz Lang.
North, starring elijah wood.
North was a multiple nominee at the 15th Golden Raspberry Awards in six categories including Worst Picture and Worst Director for Rob Reiner.
I had that on VHS when I was a kid, and absolutely loved it! Still have gone memories of Bruce Willis in it but if I’d watch it today, it’d probably be shit lol. I’m not going to destroy those good memories like I did after rewatchind Dude, Where’s My Car.
there were some…interesting…choices made. lol but idk if it deserves the “worst movie of all time” title. the scene that sticks out in my memory is when he is trying out the Inuit (i think?) parents and they send the grandpa out to sea on an iceberg to die lol. i liked bruce willis in it tbh
I don’t remember it that well, but for a 7 year old, it was great 😝
EVERYthing made by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton
We’ve got laws, now, against the insane shit they did on-set, back then…
Lives were too-cheap, back then…
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One of his stunts literally broke his neck.
He was told by his doctor about it 9 years later.Agree, but the problem with doing it today would be they couldn’t get insurance to cover it.
Blazing Saddles.
Probably the Blue Brothers, but for different reasons. I feel like most of the blues legends are gone.
A lot of the blues legends are gone and a large number of Americans would be upset that they hate Illinois Nazis.
Also used cars cost wayy too much these days.
Blazing saddles was (loosely) remade in 2022 as paws of fury
Sorry about the “up yours, slobber face.” You will of course have the decency not to tell anyone I talked to you?
Idk. It would have to be a REALLY loose adaptation.
I take your meaning but it is a remake and Mel Brooks is involved so…
Yeah I think it’s cool. I’ll have to give it a watch.
Yeah they would get sued to oblivion. Fucking copyright law.
Also; most of the actors are dead.
Also you’d need to revive the Bolivian cocaine industry to 1980’s levels.
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I guess, first “define old”.
Blazing Saddles? 1974?
That was the first one I thought of. I knew it would already be in the comments haha.
police story
Any 80s fantasy movie. The vibe is gone. And it’s not just CGI.
