what's the best/most-revolutionary/favorite special effects movie ?
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If we're talking the most revolutionary as far as special effects go it's Star Wars followed very distantly by Terminator 2. I don't even get all the love the Matrix gets. As far as the plot goes the first one was ok, but there was nothing Earth shattering about any of the special effects it had comparable to other contemporary movies. I would say many of the same things about The Lord of the Ring movies as I did about the Matrix for many of the same reason.
Hard to pick, even when it's 3
Jurassic Park - it gave us CGI, if it had been done just a few years earlier it would have had to use animatronics instead of computer effects
The Matrix (the entire trilogy) - those bullet time, time stop effects were awesome first time around
R. Emmerich movies: 2012 / Independence Day / Day After Tomorrow - very realistic ways to destroy the world
Lord of The Rings (the entire trilogy) - I'm probably going to get lynched but... I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY OF THEM, don't even care to see them
Terminator (all of them) - for a B-movie made with a very low budget with some muscle headed actor with a weird name, not too shabby
King Kong (both the original and the 2000's remake) - the original was the original horror movie, and the effects for their time were very imaginative.
Stars Wars (all of them) - the lasers, space ships, lightsabers, and Leah's hair were out of this world, literally. It set the bar for space movies
Alien (all of them) - contributed a new idea for some species of non-sentient, killing machine aliens
2001: A Space Odyssey - was Stanley Kubrik on LSD when he made this one?
Other (please post) -ah, space mutiny? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY
At the end, I just chose, the matrix, jurassic park, and star wars
Jurassic Park - it gave us CGI, if it had been done just a few years earlier it would have had to use animatronics instead of computer effects
The Matrix (the entire trilogy) - those bullet time, time stop effects were awesome first time around
R. Emmerich movies: 2012 / Independence Day / Day After Tomorrow - very realistic ways to destroy the world
Lord of The Rings (the entire trilogy) - I'm probably going to get lynched but... I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY OF THEM, don't even care to see them
Terminator (all of them) - for a B-movie made with a very low budget with some muscle headed actor with a weird name, not too shabby
King Kong (both the original and the 2000's remake) - the original was the original horror movie, and the effects for their time were very imaginative.
Stars Wars (all of them) - the lasers, space ships, lightsabers, and Leah's hair were out of this world, literally. It set the bar for space movies
Alien (all of them) - contributed a new idea for some species of non-sentient, killing machine aliens
2001: A Space Odyssey - was Stanley Kubrik on LSD when he made this one?
Other (please post) -ah, space mutiny? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY
At the end, I just chose, the matrix, jurassic park, and star wars
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best/favorite/revolutionary FX movie ever? AVATAR! in 3D. the story sucked but the way it was made come on, those animators took their fucking time. the way that movie was made was complete art.
Saving Private Ryan count?
That did serve you right!
Personally, I think you were very qualified for an additonal 12 lashings, 180 bible verses, and maybe a case of Polio for good measure for simply not being observant enough to realize that Kong's dimensions are virtually different in every shot! Like being 18-feet tall or at times and 60-feet high or larger in other scenes. Yes, they were executed well enough that most people would accept any height that fitted into the scene, but come on, an actual monkey? That's hogwash!
Everything else? Perfectly acceptable.
But I can only imagine what you did the night of Orson Welles radio broadcast of H. G. Welles "War of the Worlds" in 1938. :spin:
Had to go Star Wars... the first movie in 77 broke tons of new ground.
