As said much of it was still practical effects back then but what digital stuff they did do was probably rendered on an SGI system, some studios that did purely digital such as Pixar designed and built their own systems.
Studios don't even use GPUs today for final rendering, as it turns out GPUs don't reliably implement the floating point to spec so for repeatability they render using CPUs.
Yep, all we get these days is rehashed crap and nostalgiabait, nothing original in terms of new IP comes out of Hollywood these days.
Some people excuse it saying there have always been remakes. King Kong has been remade what, six times now on the official franchise and a dozen times more with slightly off-brand names. This doesn't excuse the current studio heads from developing new or adapting old stories to the screen. It feels like the only effort made these days is toward milking every shekel out of a franchise until the momentum is halted by apathy.
David Lopez
Someone finally mentioned SGI. I think we finally threw out the old Octane that we were using as a door stop.
Nicholas Powell
That's a shame but I feel you're just a troll so it's OK.
John Williams
I think it's baser than that. The old movies we look back on are the best of that era. The movies you and I think as the movies of the 50s, 60, ... 90s, etc., are the best. I mean, do you realize there are hundreds of thousands of feature length films? Of course when you're watching all the shit that the (((they))) throw out every year, you're gonna think "Wow movies have gone to shit". However, in 20 years when your grandkids are watching Dunkirk or whatever you're gonna be sitting there thinking "yep, that was truly the end of the era. The last great movies were from 2010-2020".
Xavier Fisher
No, because popular films of previous decades were actually good and intended for a mature audience. Films today are just garbage for kids or soy consumers. Look at the top grossing films of each year from 2010, utter fucking crap, they are meant to be the cream like when we look back at Star Wars. The truth is there are loads of new ideas coming from writers but it's all in books, film makers are too afraid of losing sheckles so they just stick with what works until it's done to death. It's the same mentality that killed American tv, like what season is the Simpsons even on now? 90?
