I feel sorry that kids will no longer experience the magic of CGI in the same way as we did a few decades ago since it has become so commonplace in modern film.

So someone in /r/splitdepthgifs requested a clip of Jurassic Park and it got me thinking about how when I was a kid. I remember being blown away by Jurassic Park, I loved dinosaurs and everything seemed so real.

A few years later I was blown away again by Toy Story, walking out of the theater from that movie I knew movies would never be the same again. It makes me sad that most new moviegoers will never experience that.

I guess for them 3D is the cool new way to experience movies, although I don't follow the movie scene enough to know how popular that is. From what I have experienced of it, it is not quite as mind blowing as watching CGI bring worlds to life in ways I had never before imagined.

Also, just a side thought, imagine what it would have been like for the first moviegoers, they must have known the world would change forever through the invention of moving pictures. Then again years later people got to experience the magic of talking pictures.

Maybe we'll live long enough to see future advances to films that we'd never even dreamed of. My PhD professor thinks that choose your own adventure movies should become a thing, where the audience votes at certain parts of the movies to change the way the story plays out, that incentivizes people to watch more than once, but I have a feeling that people would vote for the same things over and over again and it would get boring. Besides, what he is describing is essentially a group based video game.

Now, I don't think video games will ever replace films, but I do think they are an interesting medium in which to tell stories, especially with the emergence of games like Heavy Rain, the Telltale Games (Walking Dead, Fables, Borderlands, etc) and the new one Life is Strange (haven't played it yet, but I hear it is good), which are all basically interactive stories. I wish games would take more risks in having open stories with multiple endings that we can call our own.

Also, I know I have gone way off topic, but one big step I would like to see movies take is by embracing digital media. I know there are bigger issues, but I remember reading someone suggesting that new movies would be released in home and in theaters, where the price of the movie corresponded to the size of the screen. That would be really interesting to see, especially for my wife and I since we have a young kid, babysitting costs like double the movie, so we usually stick to Redbox and Netflix. Okay, weird tangent over. Thoughts?