Jurassic Park
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Yup, it was lauded for its amazing CGI when it came out, but the vast majority of the movie was shot with puppets and practical effects. It’s also a great example of “less is more” in the sense that the movie is over two hours long, but only has like 15 minutes of actual dinosaur footage. That meant they were able to focus their time and resources effectively, to make the few bits of CGI as good as they could be.
Kubriks 2001.
Going to add krull. This is another were less was more with special effects which makes it do much better than others of the time.
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Gremlins. My brother and I were just discussing this because we heard that the new Gremlins movie will be using analog effects.
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Gattaca
I can't believe no one has said The Thing yet.
The creature effects are so good, it holds up today.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy show from the 80s holds up surprisingly well
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Tron.
Even now the CGI looks pretty dope and that shit was done on computers from the 80s!
The Thing and the Aliens trilogy
Some of the best practical monster effects ever in film, and Aliens especially had awesome sets.
Star Trek (original series)
The teleportation effect is so fucking simple (literally just beads swirled around in water) and yet looks so damn cool.
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I can’t believe I haven’t seen a mention for The Thief of Bagdad.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0033152/
When you watch it you won’t believe it was made 85 years ago.
Roger Ebert reviewed it stunningly. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-thief-of-bagdad-1940
Reading through I see no one has yet mentioned dark crystal which I think is hensens magnus opus.
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Not as old as some mentioned, but I love Gondry's use of practical effects in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Also want to drop in Fx: Murder by Illusion, just 'cause I loved the movie when I first saw it many decades ago...
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You want old movies? How about Royal Wedding (1951). It has a scene where Fred Astaire dances on the walls and ceiling. There's no cgi or special effects, it was just done with a simple camera trick.
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Touch of Evil by Orson Welles, 1958.
The cinematography, and opening single-shot scene is a thing of legend.
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Also, The Shinning, 1980.
The impossible geometry of the hotel, is used to create an unnerving effect for viewers.
Citizen Kane. A lot of clever and groundbreaking effects that most people don’t even realize are happening.
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almost anything animated holds up to. rock and rule is still entertaining as is heavy metal and the paint over animation lord of the rings (I am in no way comparing it to the awesome peter jackson version but just that animation holds up better than stadard special effects).
You can find some old Buster Keaton interviews on YouTube where he talks about the craft. Pretty good stuff.
Terminator, despite being a classic and massively popular movie of the time, is pretty bad by modern SFX & VFX standards.
The Thing (Jonh Carpenter) for a movie of the same era holds up impressivley well.
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Definitely Forbidden Planet. Killer electronic music soundtrack as well.
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