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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    14 days 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.

    • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
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      14 days ago

      There is an enormous amount of CGI in Lord of the Rings that you don’t really notice. Yes they used lots of miniatures and other practical effects, but that only takes you so far. The extended DVDs are full of some of the really cool ways they combined digital and practical. They show PJ “filming” at one point with a block of wood with a mocap ball on it.

      They invented an entire new software just to make the huge battle scenes good. That software, Massive, is still used today to simulate giant crowds.

      Gollum hasn’t aged perfectly, but pretty well for an entirely CGI character from the early 2000s.

    • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days 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