Current Events > The best movies use as much practical effects as possible

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All of the great movies from the 80s and 90s and some from 00s. Terminator, Predator, Alien, Jurassic Park, Interstellar, Inception, etc. All of the greats use practical effects. Very little CGI. Also, Arnold Schwarzenegger. There are some great movies that use CGI, like the MCU movies, but there is something special when movies use practical effects.

The Thing (1982) < The Thing (2011)

Is proof enough.

Blade Runner 2049 is a good example of this also the first Matrix vs the horrible looking sequels.

this is one of the things that makes me hate contemporary disney -- endless remakes with bad cgi when they could be doing muppet adaptations

Inception

wat

The final sequence of Fast 5 being practical is absolutely fucking insane

Sometimes practical is better. I still think original Yoda puppet looks more real than cgi prequel yoda

The Fountain they couldnt afford real space so they poured chemicals on the film to make it look like it was filmed in outer space

movie is a trip

Alteres posted...

Inception

wat

The hallway fight was shot in a full-on rotating hallway.

Pikachuchupika posted...

Jurassic Park

JP was actually one of (quite possibly the) first major picture to use CGI for something other than blobs (T-1000 being an example).

During production they were thinking of doing claymation as well as CGI and robotics, built incredibly detailed models for it.

That got scrapped but they used the models to build the CGI and make it move as realistically as possible.

The only straight up CGI shot I remember is the classic "Welcome to Jurassic Park" "holy shit that's like seven brontosusurruses"

Vicious_Dios posted...

The Thing (1982) < The Thing (2011)

Is proof enough.

That's the first thing I thought of, they had made practical effects but decided to scrap all the hard work in favor of the awful cgi.