Favorite VFX/SFX Work

[Papenbrook]

What are some of your favorite visual/special effects within media?

[Allio]

Has to be in Shin Godzilla. There was a few shots that I thought was a prop, but apparently the entire time, outside of the last shot, everything was cgi.

[Jester]

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[Leo656]

Everything Snyder.

The original effects work on the Star Wars trilogy was definitely groundbreaking in its day.

Likewise, the flying effects on the first Richard Donner Superman movie in the 70s were well ahead of anything anyone had ever done up to that point. Even the sequels couldn't sustain the standard set by the first one in the effects department.

I love everything in the "Evil Dead/Army of Darkness" trilogy, as low-budget and "cheap" as so much of it is. The only thing I DON'T like is the one scene in AoD where the tiny Evil Ash clones hold Ash down so one of them can jump into his mouth; the compositing on that one shot is seriously the worst thing I think I've ever seen, it just looks awful. But everything else looks great for being shot with hardly any money.

And I'll take anything in the first two Ghostbusters movies over anything they did in that 2016 disaster. I still think those movies look great.

Also a big, big fan of the old stop-motion Harryhausen type stuff, like the skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts. LOVE that kinda sh*t.

I could go on but that's off the top of my head.
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Jester: That's a great shot, too. :lol: Also the scene in "Last Crusade" where the guy drank from the false grail, that was awesome.

[Jester]

Jester: That's a great shot, too. :lol: Also the scene in "Last Crusade" where the guy drank from the false grail, that was awesome.
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[Leo656]

It's always nice having you around more. :)

[Allio]

Stop motion definitely is top-tier when it comes to the effort that goes into it. Probably the best when it comes to special effects.

[DarkFell]

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Old movie still has some neat effects in it.

[Leo656]

Hell yeah! Top tier.

[frank_one]

Everything done by Ray Harryhausen, Phil Tippett and Rob Bottin. The skeletons scene in Jason and the argonauts blew my mind. The dog/alien in The thing, ED-209 from Robocop, Jeff Goldblum transformation in The fly (done by someone else).
For a while I was obsessed with HR Giger stuff after watching Alien.
And Sam Raimi. His camera movements are kind of a VFX on its own.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Why has no one mentioned the morph sequences in Willow? Every time he botched the transformation spell and Razelle turned into a new animal was amazing. Especially the rodent to raven. And the one at the end where it's kind of a Darwin's grab-bag of morphs.

[Jester]

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[Powder]

Gremlins, TMNT 1990, a variety of Godzilla movies, The Dark Crystal, Neverending Story, to name a few.

[DarkFell]

Also, a shout-out for Ray Harryhausen.
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