"The Silver Surfer" was a short film from 1993 that was made as a tech demo for what CGI could do at the time. It was directed by Erik Flemming, who was just charged in Matthew Perry's death and faces 25 years in prison.

I think people forget that before the internet and even in the early days of "The Web" movie-making was literal magic to most people. It was voodoo and witchcraft that all culminated in new worlds and larger-than-life characters being made real. So, for a young person in that era to see the T-1000 and think, "How do I do that?" and "Wait... can I do that?" was a big idea.

Now we download Blender and use our cinema-quality consumer-grade camera and professional-grade editing software, after watching 100 hours of acting and film production tutorials, all to create whatever we like. It is so easy to understand how it works now that it's almost mundane but it was once the work of wizards who carved light, sound, time, and space by way of imagination's edge to transport us.

yeah it was definitely the web that changed that, not 30 years of exponential improvements in consumer hardware

How about something watchable in Canada?

JUSTICE FOR CHANDLER but also that looks like Alex Mack

Snapshots:

https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1eurfqa/the_silver_surfer_was_a_short_film_from_1993_that/:

• undelete.pullpush.io

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)