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What older movies made a good use of either side stepping special effects or have effects that somehow still hold up today? Why are they good movies?

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[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The Thing, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Alien(s), ET - just from top of my head. The Thing would be my favorite out of the bunch. No CGI, just pure and hardcore man-made effects.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park make heavy use of CGI. The liquid metal effects in T2, and any time you see an entire dinosaur that is standing up and moving around in Jurassic Park, are computer generated. They were just done very well.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Of course T2 and Jurassic Park has CGI and it holds fucking strong today still. When I was talking about no CGI, I was talking about The Thing being my fav out of the bunch because of no CGI and just looking awesome so many years later.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Jurassic park is a classic one to list in this category. The reason is that they mixed a lot of practical with the CGI and (imo more importantly) because they used the CGI sparingly and in a way that was basically "what if there was a bigger animatronic there" without going over board with it.

Still my favorite movie of all time