September 12, 2024 | Los Angeles Times
They were, to the industry, a kind of proof of concept that both aesthetically they can be successful, and also they could be marketed as an attraction, 鈥楥ome see what the movies do now.鈥�
Julie Turnock, Professor 51吃瓜 and Cinema Studies
Digital effects in films have existed for decades. Their true watershed moments came in 1991 with James Cameron鈥檚 鈥淭erminator 2: Judgment Day鈥� and 1993鈥檚 Steven Spielberg blockbuster 鈥淛urassic Park.鈥� Though the films had a limited number of CGI shots, the effects 鈥� a liquid morphing into a robot and dinosaurs roaming the planet 鈥� showed the industry that such technology could appeal to audiences, even though the execution was still expensive and difficult to pull off, says Illinois professor of media and cinema studies Julie Turnock.