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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/31/08

    In reply to The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema
    Making Keanu Reeves and Hayden Christianson look so real. The advances in animatronics are amazing.
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    12/31/08

    In reply to The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema
    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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    12/31/08

    In reply to The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema
    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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    12/31/08

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

    In reply to The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema
    the saving private ryan bullets in the water while cool is completely impossible in real life
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    Image of tande04 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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    12/31/08

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

    In reply to The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema
    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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    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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    12/31/08

    In reply to The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema
    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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    12/31/08

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

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

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

    In reply to The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema
    What? What about the melting face from Raiders?
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    Image of NotSoSiniSter NotSoSiniSter
    12/31/08

    In reply to The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema
    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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    12/31/08

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

    In reply to The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema
    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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    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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    12/31/08

    @tande04: Really.


    Considering the time frames, the water tentacle was a lot more impressive.

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    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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    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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    12/31/08

    In reply to The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema
    Wow, it's crazy what CGI has done for the movie industry!
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    Image of OddManOut 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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    Image of Kaiser-Machead 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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    11/04/08

    In reply to Scientists Clone Mouse from Damaged Frozen Cells, Mammoth, Sabertooth Next In Line
    Screw mice. Screw mammoths even. What I want to see is some freaky genetic tweaking that results in the creation of...the mimmoth.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Scientists Clone Mouse from Damaged Frozen Cells, Mammoth, Sabertooth Next In Line
    I wonder how this might apply to the recent discovery of elastic bone marrow tissue found in a T. Rex bone a few years ago: It had intact red blood cells.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Scientists Clone Mouse from Damaged Frozen Cells, Mammoth, Sabertooth Next In Line
    Those wooly mammoths will be happy we cloned them just in time for global warming to re-kill them.
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    11/04/08

    @Gann: Woolly Mammoth's like the warm weather. It's the cold weather that killed them ;c)
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Scientists Clone Mouse from Damaged Frozen Cells, Mammoth, Sabertooth Next In Line
    Oh no you don't! These mammals had their chance and Nature SELECTED them for extinction!


    (Any chance to paraphrase Jurassic Park!)

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    11/04/08

    @Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder: I don't believe it. I don't believe it. You're meant to come down here to defend me from these people and the only one I've got on my side is the blood-sucking lawyer!
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    11/04/08

    @Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder: well, technically they were wiped out by ancient humans... but hey, what could possibly go wrong, anyway?
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    11/04/08

    @kzooguy: No, no... it was a ray-blast from space aliens (cleverly disguised as a meteor) that filled the sky with dust, blotting out the sun and killing most life on the planet... except for the Loch Ness Monsters... and Sasquatch.... and Yetis... and Chupacabras...
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    11/04/08

    @Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder: And Scuzzlebutt.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Scientists Clone Mouse from Damaged Frozen Cells, Mammoth, Sabertooth Next In Line
    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: That's very Nietzsche.


    I think it's more: God creates man; man rebels against God; man creates an army of mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, Dino-Riders, and Voltron to destroy God; God destroys army; man turns back to God and forgets the whole thing ever happened; man discovers Voltorn parts and creates an idol... rinse and repeat.

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    11/04/08

    @Rabid Penguin: Then man goes kabloowie because of the illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator, because we block the view to Venus.
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    11/04/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Damn. Where's Bugs Bunny when you need him?
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