50 Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Time

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WACKYNEPHEW

Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:50 AM

Granted, but it was the transformation itself that blew everybodys mind. That part where his hands stretch into the wolf leg was almost painful to watch! The make-up was awesome, but what impressed me was how they put that scene together to achieve that result. It was a great combination of special visual effects and make-up( sorry, I can't put them in the same category).I definitely do not have a problem with AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON being on this list.

Now I have to go rent it.

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WHOOPS

Friday, May 18, 2007 2:11 PM

What!! how can Fifth Element be bottom that has better effect than some up to date films i think.

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CYBERSNARK

Friday, May 18, 2007 7:36 PM

Fifth Element does have good effects, but it didn't really break any new ground. The most visually unique thing it did was to have an in-motion CGI morph (as opposed to having the character stop moving, morph, then resume movement).

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LWAVES

Friday, May 18, 2007 10:40 PM

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Originally posted by Cruithne3753:
One of my favourite effects is rather subtle. It's in LotR:The Two Towers, when Gandalf breaks Saruman's spell over King Theoden and life returns to him.

(And anyone British over about 30 suddenly goes "it's Yosser Hughes!")

Yeah, I could always see Bernard Hill going to Peter Jackson and saying "Gis a job. I can do that."

I can agree with most of the list, maybe not in the order, but most are there.

POTC shouldn't be there.
One of Sinbad or Jason And The Argonauts should go. Both pretty much use the same idea (personally I would keep Jason).
The Abyss and T2 for the same reason. The Abyss pioneered the effect but it's more refined in T2.
Only Star Wars should be there not the other two.
Same with LOTR, only FOTR should be there (although the main battle in ROTK is pretty hard to ignore!!!)

My top few would be (in order):
Star Wars
LOTR: Fellowship Of The Ring
Superman
Close Encounters
Jurassic Park
Blade Runner
The Abyss
The Matrix
Roger Rabbit
Toy Story
Forrest Gump
Jason And The Argonauts
Titanic
2001
Planet Of The Apes (60s version)

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CYBERSNARK

Saturday, May 19, 2007 11:10 PM

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Originally posted by lwaves:
POTC shouldn't be there.

Pirates had that seamless transition from live-Jack to CGI-motion-capture-skeleton-Jack --an effect that even the Matrix films couldn't match in quality (remember how CGI-Neo looked like a video-game model?). No cutting away, no switching camera angles --Brad Pitt just stepped back and became the CGI effect in a single shot. Perfect integration.

Pirates II was the first to have on-location motion-capture. That scene of Jones' Sea-Wraith crew walking out of the surf? That's real water splashing around their ankles.

Usually when people do motion-capture, they're on a bare soundstage, and the digital puppets are composited into the live footage (where the "human" actors are interacting with a ping-pong ball on a stick, or something). Pirates II had the actors "rigged" on location (and interacting with the props, sets, lighting, and even the elements), being captured in real-time with the rest of the cast.

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GIXXER

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:25 PM

What I liked about the list was that they were mostly good films in their own right, and mostly the first of serieses (not sure if that's a real word...)and mostly not terribly recent.

With the honourable exception of Aliens, they avoided the "milk the idea for a lot more than it's worth, sod scripts and characterisation, we'll just sling in an extra 20 minutes of CGI, because the budget's six times the original's" syndrome.

MISSTRESSAHARA

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:12 AM

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Brad Pitt just stepped back and became the CGI effect in a single shot. Perfect integration.

Brad Pitt? BRAD PITT? What movie were you watching? Brad*mother-humping*Pitt? Ayiieeeee.

I can agree with some of those, but Citizen Kane, really? I'd take that off and Snow White (I know it was the first feature length animated movie, but I don't feel it belongs on a special effects list) and make all the sequeled movies into one as stated. But I noticed the later SW movies weren't mentioned, hmmm, wonder why? I mean Jar Jar alone.... oh, ya now I see.

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FINN MAC CUMHAL

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 4:23 AM

I really don’t know enough about it to judge, but I will anyway. It seem like Bladerunner should be further down the list then it is. Does its contribution to special effects really trump that of the Matrix, 2001, and Jurassic Park?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was animated and like paper and paint animated, so why is it on the list at all?

Other then that, it seems to make sense. Most of the top ten, in one order or another, are pretty much what I would have suspected.

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REGINAROADIE

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 4:30 AM

Well, I think with SNOW WHITE, not only was it the first full length animated movie, but I'm guessing it was one of the pioneering animated film to use the multi-plane method. On the FANTASIA DVD, they talk about one of the early technological breakthroughs Walt created was this thing where there was this machine that had all these layers of animation and background on panels of glass stacked on one another so that a camera could zoom and pan on an image. It was to give the illusion that the camera was in the animated world and that it could travel through the space of that world towards a specific location.

I'm guessing that was the tech breakthrough, I dunno.

But I do know that KANE definitly deserves to be on that list. It may not look it, but it is an FX heavy film that helped shape the film language that we take for granted. See my initial post, which goes into detail on the innovations of KANE.

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CLJOHNSTON108

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:45 PM

Very comprehensive list, but I wish Contact & Apollo 13 would've been included.

(I'm still bitter about Apollo 13 losing the Visual FX Oscar to Babe! )

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