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The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema

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OMG! Ponies!
12/31/08

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Making Keanu Reeves and Hayden Christianson look so real. The advances in animatronics are amazing.
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not_a_virus.exe.vbs
12/31/08

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Sorry, "Total Recall" and the 2 weeks is not the worst special effect, it is the best. Get ready for a surprise!"
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Googlemyname
12/31/08

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Haha the very second you referenced the other effect in Total Recall(The three Breasts). I knew exactly what you were talking about.
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ripfire
12/31/08

@Googlemyname: The correct term is "Trits".
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stryker1800
12/31/08

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the saving private ryan bullets in the water while cool is completely impossible in real life
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tande04
12/31/08

@stryker1800: My dad and I were just talking about that the other day.

Mythbusters showed anything high velocity falling apart as soon as it hit the water right?

How'd they do that effect in the past then (before CGI)? I mean obviously they were never really "shooting" at the person underwater to begin with but were they shooting something harmless at a low velocity or rigging up some kind of pulley system to pull something threw the water to create it? Interesting.
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ripfire
12/31/08

@tande04: I'm guessing pebbles and a slingshot.
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devianaut
12/31/08

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is it just me, or does the image of ian and trex look horizontally flipped? i'm watching the movie right now, and it IS flipped... hmm...
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GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
12/31/08

@devianaut: Of you're watching, keep an eye out for the mystery drop. The T-rex knocks out the fence, and comes over the wall. He east the lawyers and messes up all the cars. He then pushes a truck over the wall, and it nearly falls 100 feet. Where did that drop come from?
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NASCARNut
12/31/08

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AHH, what about Alien with the chestbuster making his first showing? Made in 1979...no CGI...it could even be a huge B.O. hit if released today!!!
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ripfire
12/31/08

@NASCARNut: Is that the one where it starts singing Hello My Baby! across the counter?
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Rabid Penguin
12/31/08

@ripfire: That was a chest burster.
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Rabid Penguin
12/31/08

@Rabid Penguin: Disregard both of my comments. I thought you were replying to someone else.
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ripfire
12/31/08

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What? What about the melting face from Raiders?
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NotSoSiniSter
12/31/08

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haha. i Seriouly think that movies today look worse then in the past because its almost all computer and blue screens. Back then, Star Wars rocked the world with its realism of epic space battles and such. It was mostly popular for its eye blowing images. Today looking back at it its what you expect in a movie. But back then it was a whole new level of movie production.
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Monty
12/31/08

@NotSoSiniSter: Agreed - the Henson Yoda can kick the CGI Yoda any day.
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tande04
12/31/08

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I don't know how I feel about a list that has the water tentacle from Abyss so low on the list and Cloverfield so high.
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GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
12/31/08

In lopok@tande04: Agreed. That was such a important step in FX. It's what gave us the t-1000. Hell, that movie on a whole was very innovative. The way they filmed underwater in a cooling tank for a nuclear plant, using mics in the hard hats, and moving walls to show Bud descending.

Disclosure: I own a replica Titanium ring like Bud has, so I like the movie "a little".
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Kaiser-Machead
12/31/08

@tande04: Really.

Considering the time frames, the water tentacle was a lot more impressive.
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BeefSupreme
01/01/09

@SUNY_SteveDave: Do you really collect (or try to collect) all this stuff, or do you just joke about it?
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GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
01/01/09

@supercollider: I have two rings, which I got from this company I found on the Special Edition DVD: [www.titaniumrings.com]

Mine are only 10mm, as opposed to Bud's, which was 15mm. The first ring I had to stop wearing when I lost ~80lbs, and I shrunk over a ring size, which led to the ring slipping off my hand. So I ordered another one in my new size, which I am wearing right now. The old ring is on a necklace neck to my Ti cross.

I also own the movie novelization, written by Orson Scott Card, which fills in all the info/back story they couldn't fit into the movie. In fact, the three main leads had to read the first three chapters before filming, as it gives their entire life story up to the beginning of the movie. But I'm not an uber fan like the people who go to the old Nuclear plant where Deep Core is still sitting, as they couldn't move it after filming ended.
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admoseremic
12/31/08

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Wow, it's crazy what CGI has done for the movie industry!
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OddManOut
12/31/08

@admoseremic:

Not to mention sad. Before CGI was all the rage they used to put actual plots in films. Now it's like you get one or the other...a good film, or good effects in a BAD film.

Case in point, 'The Dark Night'. Great film, but noteably conservative for an action flick when it came to the use of CGI. Notice it didn't suffer at all for not using a whole lot of CGI. Contrast that with Spiderman 3. Lots of CGI, terrible film...

It's true, even today you occasionally get a good film with good use of CGI, but it's pretty rare IMHO...
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Kaiser-Machead
12/31/08

@OddManOut: Tell that to PIXAR.

CGI would not affect the quality of a movie's story. If computer graphics aren't available, then practical effects for gratuitous action will simply take its place.
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