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September 7th, 2009 -- Written by Rodney
One of the things I love about film is the escape. Experiencing the stories are far more immersive when the special effects deny logic and convince you of the impossible.
I found this clip on the tubes of you, and it reminds me of just how far effects have come.
This also reminds me just how unforgivable it is when they botch an effect. The bathroom scene during Wolverine and his cartoon claws was just painful knowing that Dinos came seamlessly alive in 1993.
There is no end to what can be accomplished. Perhaps someday we won’t need actors.
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Cool list, though I am disappointed that they didn’t show any of the great special effects shots from the first live-action Transformers. (I agree with John on that one, he pretty much said what I thought about The Golden Compass beating out Transformers at the 2007 Academy Awards for Special Effects.)
Awesome video. Thanks for posting it Rod man.
I can’t get over how amazing the effects from Jurassic Park still look today.
Very cool. But also surprising that they left off Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
actually they don’t. watch closely, or you might miss it
My favourite part of cinema is the special effects ever snice i saw those great Harryhausen effects back in the day, so thank you for bringing this to my attention, tho i find the lack of Gollum a lil disappointing.
Agree, where is LOTR?
Honestly, I don’t think that Benjamin Button should be considered the epitome of special effects. It doesn’t look too realistic to me, it looks obviously fake I think. Whoever made this video really should have put something more exciting or amazing as the final shot.
cool vid! Personally, I tend to prefer the older practical effects, although the rear-projection stuff always looks bad. I’ve never really been able to get fully behind computer generated special effects, it always looks cheesy to me
Agreed, when it comes to ships or vehicles, practical effects are the better choice, CGI vehicles just DO NOT look real, you cant create convincing lighting on something that is computer generated, it just cant be done. CGI is useful to a point, I just feel that it is used way too much, its an easy way to do effects, but it isn’t always the best.
i saw this a couple of weeks ago and to me forgeting the bullet scene from the first matrix is unforgivable.
So, The Golden Compass makes it into a special effects history montage, but The Matrix doesn’t?
I forgot about the Matrix, you are very right.
I think that video made the failures of Matrix two and three that much more glaring…Wait…in my universe those movies were never made…as well as the Star Wars prequels.
Please disregard this post…
This video seems to be overly focussed on CGI-effects rather than practical effects.
Where’s the Alien Queen from Aliens?
Where’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
Where’s The Thing?
Where’s Transformers?
NOTE: Transformers is CGI, but it’s damn amazing CGI.
The Thing gave nightmares for weeks!!!
Heheeheeee Wolverine’s claws were abominable.
“There is no end to what can be accomplished. Perhaps someday we won’t need actors.”
And perhaps someday we won’t bewail the lack of strong storytelling.
(I doubt it, to both.)
Just an observation, the deathstar explosion used in the clip is from the re-release, no the original 1977 version.
But an amazing video none the less.
great video to show on blog. loved it