Handman said:

MaximRecoil said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Well, other than the changes of course, the SE's looked pretty good for the time when they were released in '97 in my opinion.

I don't think there is any such thing as "looking good for the time". People's ability to distinguish between what looks real and what looks fake hasn't ever changed as far as anyone knows, much less in the past 17 years.

Well, people's standards change. Look at a PSOne game. It looks terrible by todays standards, but back in the day it was state-of-the-art! Same with Toy Story (although not so bad as the PSOne game)!

If we're talking about movies, "looking good for the time" relies on what people will accept in a movie without taking them out of it. A sort of "suspension of disbelief", if you will.

Without a doubt, special effects age. In 1997, the effects were state-of-the-art, and people could look at them without breaking their suspension of disbelief. Nowadays, that isn't the case.

You're right, and some of the SE CGI looked ok at the time, but CGI Jabba looked horrendous from the beginning. I remember not even looking forward to that scene when I saw it in the trailer because it looked so cheap and poorly done.