I feel like movies in the past were so much more technically amazing. I mean, sure they look a hundred times more amazing now, but the amount of human physical effort involved (as opposed to ‘butts in seats’) was immense.
they were but also so are current ones, it's just invisible due to layers of techniques and technologies added over time.
Maybe a good analogy would be microcomputers and home computers of 80's and 90's compared to a modern phone. Latter is absolutely miles ahead in everything but it's standing on giant stacks of work and on the face of it it's a commodity vs maybe what we had before where more artisan approach was needed throughout to get something great out of it.
