muppetfan89
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I just watched these two films for the first time, and while they were good movies, I was more impressed with the effects that were used to make the robot Johnny 5 come to life. It was all puppetry.
I actually like the effects in the first film better than the ones in the second one. The second film had good effects, and was advance technology at that time to make Johnny 5 really come to life. However, I feel that the first film's effects were more pure, becuase of the fact that puppetry was used. It was more practal puppetry, because they used mechancial rod and cable operated puppetry, marionette puppetry and bunraku puppetry, but very little of electrical/radio controlled puppetry. Once again the effects in Short Circuit 2 were good, but they weren't traditional puppetry.
Although, either way I feel what they did in both films is alot better than the effects we see today. I mean CGI looks fake and isn't pure to me. I hope if/when the remake comes out that they use the original effects and not make Johnny 5 CGI. To me it would take away the idea of the character being what he says he is, alive.
I actually like the effects in the first film better than the ones in the second one. The second film had good effects, and was advance technology at that time to make Johnny 5 really come to life. However, I feel that the first film's effects were more pure, becuase of the fact that puppetry was used. It was more practal puppetry, because they used mechancial rod and cable operated puppetry, marionette puppetry and bunraku puppetry, but very little of electrical/radio controlled puppetry. Once again the effects in Short Circuit 2 were good, but they weren't traditional puppetry.
Although, either way I feel what they did in both films is alot better than the effects we see today. I mean CGI looks fake and isn't pure to me. I hope if/when the remake comes out that they use the original effects and not make Johnny 5 CGI. To me it would take away the idea of the character being what he says he is, alive.