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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6235087" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Only if you look at it aesthetically...and on no other basis. As a whole, though, those Mustangs are more dangerous in a crash, are more difficult to handle in both normal and emergency conditions, pollute more, are less aerodynamic, are less fuel efficient, have worse power/weight ratios...and had their HP calculated by methods that inflated the numbers compared to today's standards (IOW, they were not as powerful as Ford claimed them to be). I could go on.</p><p></p><p>But on several of those engineering criteria I just mentioned, the Mustangs were state of the art when created, so criticizing them for not being as good as a Zonda in those aspects is an unfair comparison.</p><p></p><p>We appreciate those Mustangs more for what they were than how they stack up today. Outside of their context, they're terrible. Their timeless element is their aesthetics...and nothing else.</p><p></p><p>With movie SFX, the same standard applies. It is a technology-driven field, and it simply isn't fair to compare the SFX tech of the 1980s to the CGI of the movies that followed. It has aesthetic consequences, but it is, essentially, technology & engineering.</p><p></p><p>The timeless elements of films are their writing & acting. <em>That</em> is fair game to compare over the ages.</p><p></p><p>IMHO, while the acting in <em>Terminator</em> was hardly Shakespearean, I'd be hard pressed to name a better depiction of a truly soulless killing machine in human form than Arnold's. The writing made for a tight Sci-Fi thriller.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 6235087, member: 19675"] Only if you look at it aesthetically...and on no other basis. As a whole, though, those Mustangs are more dangerous in a crash, are more difficult to handle in both normal and emergency conditions, pollute more, are less aerodynamic, are less fuel efficient, have worse power/weight ratios...and had their HP calculated by methods that inflated the numbers compared to today's standards (IOW, they were not as powerful as Ford claimed them to be). I could go on. But on several of those engineering criteria I just mentioned, the Mustangs were state of the art when created, so criticizing them for not being as good as a Zonda in those aspects is an unfair comparison. We appreciate those Mustangs more for what they were than how they stack up today. Outside of their context, they're terrible. Their timeless element is their aesthetics...and nothing else. With movie SFX, the same standard applies. It is a technology-driven field, and it simply isn't fair to compare the SFX tech of the 1980s to the CGI of the movies that followed. It has aesthetic consequences, but it is, essentially, technology & engineering. The timeless elements of films are their writing & acting. [I]That[/I] is fair game to compare over the ages. IMHO, while the acting in [I]Terminator[/I] was hardly Shakespearean, I'd be hard pressed to name a better depiction of a truly soulless killing machine in human form than Arnold's. The writing made for a tight Sci-Fi thriller. [/QUOTE]
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