Beautiful visual
When the XRV-1 reaches orbit after being launched through the eye of the hurricane. It is viewed head-on, with the eye behind and slightly to port, indicating the point from which it came. Beautiful
shareAn Oscar winner through "Old School" methods of optical FX shots. I agree really well done for it's day. The Film was well crafted.
shareThe sad thing about the CGI generation is that they can't seem to appreciate how technically difficult optical special effects were to pull off. They think matte paintings, opticals and stop motion are cheesy.
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