Top 10 Practical Effects of All Time | A CineFix Movie List

Best Voyage to the Moon homage:

Space Brothers OP 4

This woke shit gotta stop. Only racists see race problems

Two points worth mentioning:

1. Stan Winston also worked on “The Thing.” When Rob Bottin had too little time to dedicate to the dog kennel scene due to the immense scope of the other effects in the film, Winston was brought in to do that one scene. However, Winston was so impressed with Bottin’s work that he asked not to be credited in the film, for fear that people would assume he’d done the work Bottin had done. In the end, Winston received a “special thanks” credit.

2. In addition to those effects mentioned for “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the film also pioneered front projection on a larger scale than had ever been achieved, which would later go on to be used for films such as “Superman” (1978).

Lol. All they had to do was go to Langley and ask how they shot the original nuke films ;)

Feel free to say fuck lol

How in hell could you POSSIBLY justify putting the T. rex scene in Jurassic Park at #9 when it STILL looks better than 99% of films coming out NOW and, while they were at it, BUILT THE FOUNDATION ALL MODERN EFFECTS ARE BASED ON?!? Literally. Jurassic Park BIRTHED the modern CGI blockbuster - before that there were only simple reflective effectives e.g. the liquid metal T-1000 in Terminator 2 - downright simple compared to a full-scale dinosaur with moving skin, muscles, eyes, etcs - and the primitive water effects in The Abyss. NOW, we're talking PRACTICAL, but you cannot sit there and honestly pretend that building a rotating hallway is a more jaw-dropping practical effect than building a 10-ton full-sized, breathing, blinking, pupil-dilating dinosaur that looks so god damned good that it's the standard-bearer for ALL practical creature effects after 30 years. That is SO much more impressive than simply using forced perspective and rotating a room around. On a technical level there's a lot more to worry about, you need to be operating the eyes, the mouth, the limbs when present, the neck, the head, the tail, moving them in synch AND doing all of that in a rainstorm while trying not to have the thing go out of control and accidentally kill your actors - which, given the size and enormous hydraulic power of that thing, EASILY could have happened. Miniatures are neat, forced perspective and rotating sets are neat, but the Jurassic Park T. rex required the combination of state-of-the-art tech, CGI SEAMLESSLY blended in (so much so that there are many people even now who cannot tell that when the T. rex walks by the car from the inside, it transitions from animatronic to full CGI in one frame as it moves past the passenger side to the front of the car - I've told people that RECENTLY and they were mind blown - my wife just saw JP for the first time last year and she was just floored that they could DO that in 1993).

Keep in mind, too, this was 1993. You have to compare it to all other practical effects BEFORE - and most of them were far smaller scale and simpler to manage - things the size of people and dogs, not animals the size of BUILDINGS. They were 99% of the way to pulling the trigger on just using stop-motion animation for the effects but the visual effects artists at ILM proved to Spielberg both the full-scale animatronics and CGI were possible to sell as being actually REAL animals, so that changed it.

That sequence belongs at #1, and if you don't understand why you have no business making a list.

This is fantastic work, guys! What a blast of celebration of moviemaking!!!!

The dark crystal best movie ever for me

I have always been a comicbook fan, and when I saw "The Thing" it gave me hope that some day someone might make a cool "Swamp Thing" movie, cause "The Thing" kind of reminded me of Anton Arcane. Right down to the head with the Spider Legs.

Love this video. Shocked not to see Titanic on the list !

i cant unsee the paper machier now from T2

Why the fk are they bleeping words out??!!!! I don't pay premiums to hear words bleeped out!!?

I got to watch American werewolf in London at the movie theatre used in the film.

Stan Winston and Jim Cameron’s work in Aliens is truly amazing. Winston and team only made a dozen aliens but it looks like an entire army. The look of the queen is timeless and truly pushed the limits of puppetry on film.

I can't believe you didn't mention Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo for it's use of a rotating set!

You Tube is still the best school you can go to.

Not mentioning Metropolis is an official crime!

Sooo much better than CGI!

I miss practical effects. Miniatures, puppets, and other in camera tricks are timeless. They hold up way better than anything CGI usually creates.

HOW THE HELL DID THEY DO THAT SCENE IN RABO 3

Wo wo... 2001 Space Odyssey wasn't what changed space ships. Star Trek did it first. Mat Jefferies design of the Enterprise was revolutionary for 1966. Never again would it be just rockets and saucers.

I think you massacred Rob's name.

It's pronounced Bo - Teen... not Bot-Ten.

Nice list, i just missing Karel Zeman and his Journey to the beginning of time 1955

To this day, the transformation into the werewolf in An American Werewolf is unparalleled. Literally the best transformation ever

Hey brother, IATSE Propmaker here, I know no one cares about the below the line workers on a movie. When it comes building gigantic rotating sets through I was kinda hoping you would have thrown us a bone on this one. You handed out flowers to everyone that was involved except for the people that actually build the thing. Oh well, maybe next time.

The thing

Calling the trex a “he” is kind of sacrilegious, but I’ll forgive you all for such an awesome video!! Thank you 😊

I remember seeing "Jason and the Argonauts" on TV during the 70's. I was so amazed by the skeletons

The Hobbits ALWAYS looked like guys on their knees. STUPID!

And the moon land rover cost over 1 million back in the days 😂😂😂😂😂

Have you done a video about stunts? I watched T2 on cinema and it was the most amazing stunt I can remember was the terminator waking from the van to the trailer while everything was moving. What a great scene of a real person doing something that for me looked like a dangerous thing to do.

There is something about practical effects that make them scarier than CGI for some reason.

Hearing about how they filmed the 2001 a Space Odyssey explains why it's a pleasure to watch with the long exposures filling the frame with depth and details. Then changing the frame rate to give this sense of vastness and scale creating the sci-fi future 🛰 that I embodied exponentially as the film progressed. 🚀

I don’t know I don’t think you guys have ever seen the movie spy kids too because if you have, there’s a scene in the movie spy kids two where they literally have a fighting scene with skeletons just like in that movie they are talking about in this video just like that and it looked just like thatwhich was made in the early 2000s

is that the ps1 dino tech demo

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The EVA pods in 2001 were built by Hawker Siddeley Aviation and the spacesuits made by Siebe Gormann, manufacturers of breathing aparatus

Invention of the zoom pan.?

Thank yo7 for all those extra I tels, those are the best I love to learn to small produduction details

They made tank simulators using periscope cameras in the soviet union, cool seeing where it was started!!

OP whoever you and the people who are that made this it is amazingly good, well made and fascinating to watch, even the disgusting creatures from Fly and Thing that curdle my blood and gives me nightmares.

The thing (82) foi o filme que mais me impressionou durante anos, só superado por Terminator 2.
Parabéns pelo excelente vídeo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Decent list. Could do without the censorship. It's lame and distracting. 👎🏽

CGI abuse is now pandemic. Not sure why they insist on push those over practical, in some dark shady shots those can be "acceptable" but the shines, reflections, and real presence on screen of the practical, those are unmatched. The first Jurassic Park t-rex still remains unbeaten. Last movies are so so wrong.

Still - Jurassic Park plastic water cup takes prize as most efficient / bang-for-a-buck effect. In movie that's tour the force of both CGI and practical VFG and their blend, most suggestive effect was created using wooden hammer pounding a car. Talk about programming in viewer's head, set up and pay off.

Man these people building camera control in 70s were WIZARDS - I doubt most todays electronic engineering / comp-sci graduates could do that!