Best Sci Fi Effects sequence
POSTED BY: milford
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 18:30
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My favorite special effects sequence was the space battle in "Serenity", That said, I used to want to work for Industrial Light and Magic, now I want a job at ZOIC, so I'll have access to the best ship in the 'verse!
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Didn't one of the buildings in Blade Runner look kind'a familiar?
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As in, the Millenium Falcon Turned on its engines?
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Those are two of my favorites also. I love when that TIE fighter ricochets off of the asteroid. To thing that they did all that with models is unbelieveable.
By the way, strike all the junk I've said before. I still love the reaver and Serenity chase, but today I was watching the Train Job and the shot where Serenity pulls away from the train with Jayne hanging underneath looks so REAL. I have no idea how they did it, but I would swear that they built a hovertrain and a Serenity and filmed it.
Anyone out there a big enough CGI person to give insight as to why their effects look so much more real than others?
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I always liked the Scene from Serenity, Part 1,
with Mal and Zoe going out to shoot down the skiff.
The effects of the targeting computer coming up, with the skiff way in the backround - and then the display of firepower from the AA Gun - that particualr scene I thought was pretty good.
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That is pretty cool. Kinda reminds me of the same look that the techno flyer Badger had. Super neato.
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Milford: When I read the title of this thread, one thought popped into my head: The Reaver chase scene in the Firefly pilot!
I'm NOT really an SFX/CGI geek; that's what grabbed me about that scene. The shots with Serenity coming at the camera, and the Reaver ship so big and menacing coming up behind it, billowing out all that black smoke (it reminded me of watching an old F-4 Phantom fighter doing a "dirty burn" at an air show)... that shot just floored me. I honestly couldn't see how it could be CGI. I thought, "Man, someone actually went and did this stuff with real models and real film!" :) The zoom effects, the lens flares, the in- and out-of-focus bits; it all looked far too REAL to be simply CGI. It was a masterfully done scene, and definitely ranks in my top three all-time SFX shots.
That scene floored me like no special effects I've seen since I was a much younger nerd, and went and saw the original Star Wars in the theatre. From the opening scene of Star Wars, I knew I was in for something very special and something the world had never seen before.
The Pan-Am shuttle docking with the spinning orbital space station in 2001: A Space Odyssey is right up there, too. It doesn't look like much now, but in its day, when we were just getting into space in real life, it was utterly astonishing. Again, I was lucky enough to see that one in the theatre, when I was all of 6 years old. It's stuck with me for nearly 40 years...
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I completely agree.
I have not been a fan of CGI special effects as they never seem to look as real as the more traditional methods.
The special effects on Firefly were a giant leap forward in Scifi visual effects. The stunning visual effects on both Firefly and the new Battlestar Galactica are more original than anything else seen recently.
The space effects on Serenity had their own distinctive style and seemed to add even more polish to the work done previously. By far the best space batle scene in recent years.
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That Reaver ship was so nasty! I loved the way it flipped to make an inverted entry into the atmosphere before sparking up the burners for the chase sequence. Really nice touch 
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That's one of my favorite parts of thw whole series! The way those guys got the ships to move made them seem like they actually had weight, like they were subject to the laws of physics.
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I love the way in the BDM, in the Big Damn Battle, with the Big Damn Ships, when they first approach each other and the Reaver ships lean forwards in that wierd, ominious way...Can't stop replaying that, amazing.
And in "The Message", the chase through the canyon with the alternating camera focuses brought joy to my heart...
What I love about Serenity/Firefly, there's never been a scene where I've thought "Wow...That looks cheap..." which I have many times with big budget movies made by studios with 10x the money.
I can't remember exactly how Joss put it, but in nearly his words:
"Too many sci-fi movies do scenes by "Look at this, this is an epic scene""...
She'll turn you in before you can say "Don't turn me in...lady..."
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