9 Movie Special Effects Nobody Believed

[@jldisme]

No matter how perfect the CGI, nothing beats practical effects. They look real because they are.

[@franck3279]

A compromise that works well (for example in Jurassik Park or GoT) is that anything an actor can touch is real, and then you can expand with bigger than life CGI.

[@AkaManah45]

Not really let's cut that bs narrative also. There are many times in which practical effects look nothing but cheesy as hell while cgi looks incredibly real and vice Versa also. Cgi it self has come a long way if u wanna talk about yh3 need of less of it n more balance then yeah I'm all for that.

[@Raevon22]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@connorjordan3551]

Someone hasn't watched many movies, apparently. Godzilla. Planet of the Apes. Shark movies. Compare the ones from decades ago to something modern. Change your mind.

[@John_Smith_60]

To all the people disagreeing with the original comment: @jldisme is talking about *_GOOD_* practical effects. There is a whole lot of *_BAD_* CGI out there. Are you going to argue that bad CGI is better than good practical effects?

[@Maykay524]

I love the edited “9” when he says the title

[@jahmd8377]

The dragon in Dragonslayer was great for its time and still holds up.

[@seanbigay1042]

The macrophotography used to create the nebula in The Fountain sounds a lot like the technique used to create the stunning shots of colliding stars seen during the wormhole passage in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Speaking of which, close inspection will show you that the alien hellscape at the climax of Dave Bowman's trip down the rabbit hole is actually the sweeping view of the Tyrolean Alps from the beginning of The Sound of Music, but recolorized to give it that surreal, unearthly look.

[@Maykay524]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="456">7:36</a> I had no idea! That’s freaking awesome!!!

[@zedirich7]

I thought the title meant effects that didn't convince anybody such as obvious rubber heads and smooth cgi.

[@Galgomite]

Thank you for mentioning The Fountain. One of my favorite movies!

[@richardbaylis9150]

If you watch carefully at the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="100">1:40</a> mark you can see that Sir Ian bumps the part of the table that is actually in front of him and everything on it moves slightly, but the section that is further away and part of the forced perspective trick stays rock solid. Whoops.

[@Somnogenesis]

Great catch! I may never be able to unsee that from now on, though...

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

Brain will always beat CGI, not mentioning the cost savings.

[@NumptyMcNumptyface]

If you haven't seen it already, check out "John Carpenter's 'The thing': Terror takes shape" - a great documentary with some hilarious anecdotes. (And if you don't have a physical copy of the movie, the whole documentary is on KZbin.)

[@Mark73]

When the Lord of the Rings movies first came out, there was a massive amount of talk about all the practical effects, about how they use perspective tricks to make the hobbits look shorter than everyone else.

[@flippert0]

Knew about most of the scenes discussed here except for the macro photography used in "The Fountain". And yes, my mind is properly blown! Of course this had to be expensive CGI, right?

[@franck3279]

The cool thing about BB8 il that they made a remote control toy version of it and it works fine, proving the design is realistic.

[@bryanc1984]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="34">0:34</a> I definitely didn't believe that ADR.

[@thafy1]

Did you know: The Fountain used similar/same techniques (macro photography using inks and dyes) as Stanley Kubrick for the trippy scenes after the intermission in 2001: A Space Odyssey

[@lynstrom940]

You completely missed the oil field scenes in There Will Be Blood, first the well gushing a massive jet of oil 100 feet in the air (amazing), and later when there is a huge fire (incredible). All done in camera. Much more worthy than these (mostly) totally crap films.

[@robgronotte1]

Did people really "not believe" these scenes? I've never even once wondered how the makers of a film created any particular effect. And how would anyone have not guessed how the scene in 2001 was filmed? The same trick was used 17 years earlier in a movie with Fred Astaire.

[@michaelcarbone6101]

Harry Houdini tried to have a film career but people didn’t believe his stunts were real🤷‍♂

[@niceguy191]

I don't think that's how the knife worked... Adam Savage does of build and it's the tip that's able to swing out of the way on a little spring. That would also mean the part about not knowing which edge is not true (plus, why would they risk that mistake??)

[@CaptainReynolds-flyinspace]

But BB8 for the most part was replaced by CGi😊

[@keyesy9]

Top shelf

[@ayesnapsnots]

I Really thought William Fichtner played T.A.R.S

[@sogggy]

Christopher Nolan actually created a black hole instead of using a CGI black hole.

[@Cau_No]

No, he just filmed on location … like Kubrick did for his movies. But they actually made a set for the tesseract and just put a filter on the scenes. So basically, yes, they built the inside of the black hole.

[@nafspark]

Can definitely tell this list wasn't originally 9 items by that clunky edit...

[@MatthewPreston-el3cq]

Title?

[@alexius23]

🎥🍿🎬🎞🧙‍♂

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

A Clockwork Orange Was One Of The Most Unwatchable films I ever saw

[@markzuckergecko621]

It's supposed to be hard to watch. But I would agree that it's overrated, I liked it a lot when I was younger, but rewatching it a few years ago it seemed a little insistent on itself.

[@densmorde4520]

@@markzuckergecko621 It has a valid point to make. Its insisted

[@velzekt]

Jules is one of the most annoying narrators I've ever heard

[@SamTAnderson]

Really? For me it's Jess, I can't stand her. Interesting how different tastes can be.

[@hookumsnivey1696]

TARS was stupid. Dumbest robot design ever.

[@cush6827]

The Thing is a horrible move with absolutely trashy "special" effects.