To me it just looks like every other movie, what details does it have that other movies don’t?
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It was ground breaking *at the time* but really isn’t too crazy these days.
Also it was sort of the fact that the whole movie was almost 100% CGI with only a few scenes of actors on sets and a few on greenscreen. That much CGI, at that level of quality was unheard of (as well as fuuuucking expensive), so combined with the good art direction it really blew peoples minds.
On the tech side, while the average person might not think twice about it, making [a scene like this](https://youtu.be/t8a0LCKxIqg) with the water and everything 100% CG is hard work, and really revolutionary at the time. The tech required to just simulate the water alone, on top of the light simulation, cloth (and wet cloth) simulation, and other animation tools to allow for things to feel that natural was absolute bleeding edge.
These days though, movies like The Avengers use almost as much CGI, and at even higher quality to the point where it’s really nothing special (at least from the point of the average movie goer). In modern times it tends to just be CG artists like me who freak out over [3D facial pores](https://youtu.be/7SvLzKby0lg?t=363) and stuff 😂
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