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Best scifi effects of all time.
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I watched it again the other day. The cellphones are the only things that really date the film.
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TridenT
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This, lol. Even at the time they showed the third film I was like, "That cellphone is kinda out of date..."
Terminator 2 is definitely one of the most impressive ones... Its hard to believe the movie is from 1992, it just blew away everything else in CG
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I agree with the vast majority of this, but there were two in my mind that looked pretty off to me when I saw them:
Balrog in LOTR. Maybe I'm just being picky, but I never found him to be impressive at all. I found golumn to be a much more impressive feat given how much you see him and how quickly you forget he's all digital.
Two Face in The Dark Knight. I would have preferred some well done make-up to this digital stuff. Maybe it wasn't so much the effect as it was the acting that took away from the effect. Try and talk with half your lips/mouth missing, either by trying to keep them open or holding them open. You sound noticeably different (at least I do) but in the movie he talks like nothings missing... possibly because they didn't do anything to his mouth and it was all digital. I may be wrong and he just got comfortable enough to talk well, but I don't think that's it.
Both nit-picky I know, just something I wanted to mention.
Balrog in LOTR. Maybe I'm just being picky, but I never found him to be impressive at all. I found golumn to be a much more impressive feat given how much you see him and how quickly you forget he's all digital.
Two Face in The Dark Knight. I would have preferred some well done make-up to this digital stuff. Maybe it wasn't so much the effect as it was the acting that took away from the effect. Try and talk with half your lips/mouth missing, either by trying to keep them open or holding them open. You sound noticeably different (at least I do) but in the movie he talks like nothings missing... possibly because they didn't do anything to his mouth and it was all digital. I may be wrong and he just got comfortable enough to talk well, but I don't think that's it.
Both nit-picky I know, just something I wanted to mention.
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I might be biased seeing that I was about 14 or 15 when I saw this movie. My brother took me and it was awesome. The effects for it's day were groundbreaking. Yes, I will go that far.
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ProfJohn
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Everyone forgot Titanic and how they took state of the art special effects and used them to create something that hasn't existed in 80+ years.
There was really only one scene in the whole movie that was noticeably fake (the people walking on the deck during a fly by scene didn't look real due to the way they walked)
There was really only one scene in the whole movie that was noticeably fake (the people walking on the deck during a fly by scene didn't look real due to the way they walked)
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No shiz, it seemed like, "let's just include everything we remember from the last 30 years."
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I didn't mean both, I mainly meant Repo Men. About halfway through it made a horrible turn and never looked back. It could have been great.
I think the big thing about the Balrog was the realistic fire. I may be mistaken but I think it was the first actually good looking CG fire that didn't look obviously fake.
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Triumph
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T2 deserves to be at the top of this list (even though it is in no particular order). T2 was about stunning special affects, tastefully done. They improved the story, rather than having the story centered around them. Are you listening Lucas? Hell, are you listening Cameron? You did it right in T2, but you forgot this notion in Avatar: you took a rehashed storyline and put it in a CGI world, proclaiming that your 3D affects would change cinema. So the plot was really only secondary to the effects.
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Harryhausen is pretty damn awesome. But as great as Clash of the Titans was, it makes you pause when you realize that it was released around the same time as Empire Strikes Back.
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I remember that too. I was thinking to myself " what, did they tape real fire and overlay it on the 3D model?"
Watched the special features disc and apparently it was all generated from scratch. Fucking awesome.
Wonder what it looks like on Blu-ray.
:hmm:
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