[maxlin]

My brain refuses to resolve the effect of it as anything but CGI. Event though it isn't.

[cadamsdotcom]

I mean, folks who make CGI better watch these too or they're not doing their jobs.

[smallmancontrov]

I hope they watch some of these, because movies are full of disappointing rocket scenes that are so many orders of magnitude away from the real thing that it's like representing a skyscraper with a treehouse. There is considerable room for reality to inspire fiction a bit more on this front.

[ceejayoz]

I remain shocked at how lame the nuke in Oppenheimer looked.

[smallmancontrov]

Oof yeah. Compared to the eldritch horror of the real slow motion footage, the glitter was painfully lame.