I'll Be Back

I've been half-watching The Terminator in the background while working on the how best to use this program to publish a weblog. I have to say, even twenty years later, it's a pretty great movie. Yes by todays standards a lot of the special effects are definitely dated. But still there's something about practical effects--miniatures, puppets, and other pieces and events that interact with the actors in "reality"--that is so much more convincing than CGI. Yes, you can get shots now that were never possible in 1984, but somehow sticking an actor in front of a green screen and painting in the special effects later doesn't seem as realistic as an actor being menaced by an actual evil robotic arm.