The impressive thing is they did all those visuals without a gui. They had to calculate and hand code every element and wouldn’t know if it worked until the film was developed.
Edit: they also weren’t eligible for best visual effects because they “cheated” by using computers.
given that the metaphorical inside of a computer is usually imagined to look… well, computer-y, i think 1980’s CG is spot on.
i remember mom telling me as a kid (~2004) “now don’t judge the CG too harshly, it’s very old” and i was like “are you kidding? this looks AWESOME!”
The impressive thing is they did all those visuals without a gui. They had to calculate and hand code every element and wouldn’t know if it worked until the film was developed.
Edit: they also weren’t eligible for best visual effects because they “cheated” by using computers.
I didn’t know they were disqualified from best effects. That’s truly tragic 😑
It’s actually pretty cool that your mom got you into it!
my mom is so cool 🥹 she saw it in theaters in college and made sure to get in on VHS from the library for us as kids