10 Reasons Why Practical Effects Are Better Than CGI

9. The Golden Age of Practical Effects

One reason why fans have been so anti-CGI is because they grew up in the Golden Age of practical effects, and many hold a certain nostalgia for those types of visuals. Many movie aficionados have strong memories of the innovations that came from the early 80s, and that’s why so many fans are so attached to practical effects. As Matt Cunningham, who did visual effects on Starship Troopers, says,

“I grew up during the era of the best practical effects creations on the planet, John Carpenter’s The Thing being one of them. Rob Bottin’s work in that movie is without a doubt some of the greatest foam and greasepaint burned to celluloid. The spiderhead effect blew my mind. It was so good that when I was young I truly believed that could happen because there was no way that effect was fake. It looked too good. That was really the boom of makeup effects. So I love practical and always will.”