awful special F/X...
ruined this movie, otherwise entertaining and disquieting at times.
shareThey are dated now, but back then they were state of the art. I still think it holds up pretty well, but that's also because I grew up with it.
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They are some of the worst I've ever seen. They are embarrassingly bad; so much so that it's the first thing I think of whenever anyone brings this movie up.
Jumanji actually made a few worst special effects lists because of how bad they are.
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I considered the poor special effects to be a metaphor for the unreality of the situation. Imagine being inside a video game(of the period).
shareThe cgi was decent for the most part, but I thought the practical effects were great. The plants, spiders, lions, pelicans, and crocodiles still look convincing today.
shareThey never got the lighting right on the CGI. It has always looked washed out and unfinished to me. And the lion that swipes at Old Alan at the end has bugged me for years as well. It looks stuffed.
shareMost of the cgi didn't look right to me back in 95, I wish it had more practical effects because they age better but I can Suspend belief with th CG - the movies plot/characters/atmosphere overcome its SFX short comings imo
shareThe VFX always looked off , 1995 was one of those years where CGI was starting to become more affordable so every mid budget summer movie was using it.
shareConsidering I just saw the latest tarzan the other day, this looks just as good (or as bad, however you want to look at it.)
And the fact that the film is not HD means the grainy look adds to it, less video game looking.
It is in HD - it's on blu ray
shareupscaled HD isn't the same as being made in HD.
shareWhat on earth are you talking about?? Nothing is 'made in HD' and Jumanji hasn't been upscaled at all, it was shot on high resolution 35mm film which is more than capable of producing a HD image - then it was released in HD on bluray years later. HD refers to the number of vertical lines present - it isn't something that has been invented recently, all those old movies on blu aren't upscaled they're true HD
shareAgreed, the monkeys look like cartoon characters, and not in a good way.
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