• @adam_y
    link
    English
    54 months ago

    The bowling ball/pins scattering sound effect destroys this scene and turns it into a rubbery cartoon.

    • @CitizenKong
      link
      84 months ago

      I’d say it turning into a CG mess with digital doubles that simply weren’t good enough yet for such a large scene is worse.

        • @CitizenKong
          link
          24 months ago

          Oh yeah, definitely underappreciated.

      • @adam_y
        link
        English
        34 months ago

        Oh, I completely agree.

        I think it marks the moment where Hollywood finally went, “average CGI is just as good as exquisite in camera and practical fx”.

        The big thing about the first Matrix being the wonderful wire work and bullet time. To sell that out with a Gary’s mod version of Agent Smith was a real mis-step.

        But I’m sticking with the sound effect and the reason being that they knew the CGI looked comical, so they leant into it with the bowling alley foley.

        Rather than going, ‘this doesn’t work’ they decided to make it a feature.