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?

  • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Lord of the Rings effects still hold up, in my opinion at least. The Balrog uses a lot of “hidden” information with the use of blackness to cover up bad cgi. Horse charges are zoomed out far enough to disguise how few horses are actually there. Most of the movies use practical effects though.

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      8 months ago

      Especially when you compare the effects in Lord of the Rings to the Hobbit. You can really see when the studio is overworked and underpaid, even when it’s a studio as good as weta.

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        8 months ago

        I can usually turn a blind eye to bad CGI, but The Hobbit was next-level awful. It wasn’t so much bad as unfinished. I felt I was watching a pirated movie before post production was complete.

    • St.Elsewhere@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, I was racking my brain to find a major movie filmed in the last decade without digital effects so that I could induce a recognition of the passage of time, and I couldn’t manage it. Covid started more than half a decade ago, and modern movies rarely use solely practical effects