I was looking at Matticus' sig -- King Shark being tossed into the collapsing building -- and if I saw that 20 years ago I would have been mesmerized. Now... a shot like that is chicken fodder. Nothing exciting. All your mind does is register that "KS got tossed." It's a shame because the work that went into that moment is probably greater than the excitement it generated.
Over a decade of the MCU and things like Transformers have just dulled the senses to anything being epic anymore. Rubber people and no sense of danger certainly doesn't help. I'm not sure what I would have to see on screen to get the same rush of adrenaline that I once got from much simpler films.
Yep. As much as me and my kids enjoyed the MCU and other current blockbusters the CGI visuals just don't inspire awe the way films of decades past used to. And this isn't just me looking at stuff from my youth with rose colored glasses.
Just a couple of weeks ago I let my 11 year old son watch Predator (1987) for the first time and when Dutch's team was mowing through the guerilla camp my son exclaimed "did they really set that guy on fire?!??" You just don't get that kind of reaction with visuals or stunts today because everything is assumed to be safely animated on someone's desktop.