It reminds me a bit of all of the hype around Mad Max: Fury Road.
Decent action flick, but a lot of plaudits based on something that used to be very standard.
"They did all their own stunts with no CGI!!!!"
"Yes, that's how they used to make all films."
Sorry that this is going to launch me off on a bit of a tangent, but you're missing the implicit part of the excitement of those people.
They aren't really meaning "They did all their own stunts with no CGI!!!" - what they're really meaning is that "They did tremendous amounts of in-camera stunts and practical effects
and managed to create an end-result that is spectacle-worthy and surpasses other major budget contemporary films." They don't say that bolded part out loud, but it's the implicit message that's coded into their excitement.
What they mean is Fury Road has tons of effects scenes, but they look like this:
Instead of this:
Road Warrior isn't bad, I love me Road Warrior. But it's obviously not nearly on par with Fury Road when it comes to visual spectacle and special effects.
Beyond that, Mad Max: Fury Road
does use CGI. It uses TONS of CGI. So did Barbie, Oppenheimer, The Dark Knight trilogy, 1917, Top Gun Maverick, etc etc etc. There's a reason these movies have hundreds of CGI credits, and you can find plenty of VFX reels from the various studios involved in working on them.
Lest you think this film really did have stunt drivers and camera crews driving thru gigantic lightning dust tornadoes.
Fury Road is a
masterpiece, because its a visual spectacle and that spectacle directly relates to the characters, their motivations, and the narrative of the film. It's a tremendous accomplishment, not merely because of practical effects and stunts, but because of those stunts and effects created something that was greater than the sum of its parts.