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The commenters were just responding to the author's question:
"Did your favorite visual effect get left out?"
Obviously that's going to start people talking about what "should have been" in the video. Sorry you're dismayed by that.
Personally I thought the clip had a great flow, and fit to the soundtrack really well. The target demo does explain why there was a drop in the music track to the vocals from Roger Rabbit.
To answer the author: The Matrix, definitely. Also, the original Star Trek (which is boring as hell, but had some great effects for its day).
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I recognize most of the modern films from their dvd commentary/how-tos that he ripped.
Also yeah, he jumped from the 20s to Oz, then to tron, there was 100s of important films inbetween.
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Where are some of the "firsts"?
Young Sherlock Holmes. The first time a computer animated figure interacts with live action.
The Last Starfighter. The first time computer created sets were used in conjunction with actual sets (ie. you see the bottom of the ship in the hanger, and it's a real set piece, but when they show the whole ship, it's CG).
08/27/09
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You are absolutely correct. I was wondering if anyone else had caught that.
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But as for why the Praxis explosion had a halo... well, it looked cool, didn't it?
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I'm still amazed at Jurassic park though. Still looks great over a decade since it's release, whereas some modern effects are looking crap after a few years.
I'm surprised to see no bullet time though. I guess it was very quickly ground into the dirt though and now is a bit risky to use without looking tacky.
Ray Harryhausen's work is also amazing. Sure it's aged, but it looks good, and would of amazed audiences at the time.
And then there's T2...damn some of the stuff they did then is hard to do now, never mind the primitive 3D tools they had at the time.
and obviously I aspire to one day have some of my work on "The greatest effects of the past 200 years"
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Not to mention the rest of the film! Especially considering it was made way before star wars and even Lucas admits modelling his special effects on those from 2001!!!
I mean, making a film set in space and on the moon before we had even seen the earth from an orbit is impressive enough!!!
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Ive been doing 3d CGI work professionaly for years and i specialise in doing photorealistic stuff, and even with this bias and love of 3d, the scenes in 2001 are still the most realistic bits of special effects i have ever seen, they look beautiful in HD too!
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That was a biggie in terms of visual effects for the span between Jurassic Park and Spiderman 2.