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Why modern movies don’t feel or look real, no matter the budget

Rob Beschizza
Dec 23, 2025
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Like Stories of Old, a series of media essays by Tom van der Linden, tackles a subject everyone seems to have an opinion on: why do modern movies, with all their modern effects, look less realistic than old ones? Why are Harryhausen skeletons still scarier than the finest CGI ghouls?

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