Comments on: Top 10 Films With The Best Special Effects

By: Anand

Anand — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:25:49 +0000

special effects confused with visual effects!

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:34:45 +0000

I disagree with all of these except for Inception and I know of other movies with MUCH better SFX! What a disappointing and heart breaking list…

By: Louis-Alexandre Simard

Louis-Alexandre Simard — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:18:04 +0000

WTF

By: vanquiz

vanquiz — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:46:50 +0000

District 9 is #5, Sgt. York.

By: Dolan

Dolan — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:36:35 +0000

No 2001: A Space Odyssey? That movie has the best special effects ever put on screen!

By: westpointdrew

westpointdrew — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:01:08 +0000

This must have been a tough list to come up with (considering how many movies have awed people with their special effects), but overall I think you did a good job. Few of the movies I feel should be in the top ten great special effects films would go back a few decades. Films like Ben Hur, Space Odyssey, and Superman are a few that have brought a new level of special effects to the industry and subsequent films had to work hard to match that.

By: TheTransitMtl

TheTransitMtl — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:48:52 +0000

It is true that Nolan used a corridor built inside a box with a revolving axis allowing it to rotate top to bottom for a full 360 degrees but this in no way simulates what who mistakenly call anti-gravity at one occasion and zero gravity at another (anti and zero gravity are two different things. Anti gravity refers to the ability to cancel the force of gravity on a object and it has yet to be achieved and if it where it would be the greatest technological breakthrough since the wheel. Zero gravity is when a body is at a great enough distance from earth or other gravity inducing mass to no longer feel the effects of gravity and effectively float. Zero gravity is in reality micro gravity as far as humans are concerned because those who experienced it where either in space or in a special NASA training plane and in both cases are not really in zero gravity because they are just falling towards earth at the same speed as the vehicle they are in.) What Nolan wanted to simulate with this was the spinning the characters where experiencing which was caused the tumbling of the van in the dream level right above them. The zero gravity part comes when the van falls from the bridge and at that point the characters in the dream experience zero g’s because they are free falling in a enclosed space which itself is free falling at the same speed. Although not all in my comment is relevant to the post it remains clear that you need to to more research about different facts if you are to write them in a site of this overall level.

By: TheTransitMtl

TheTransitMtl — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:15:13 +0000

Peter Jackson didn’t produce Neil Blomkamp’s District 9. Bloomkamp is a South African director who made District 9 with a very small budget and the movie caught Peter Jackson’s attention. He helped it get a international distribution deal and now Blomkamp is Jackson’s protégé. This is why on the image of the theatrical poster shown with the entry it says ‘Peter Jackson Presents District 9′ on the top part of the poster. Neil Blomkamp was completely unknown in the US and none of the actors had ever been seen by the american public so by associating the movie with Peter Jackson who was at the time riding high on the critical and financial success of TLODR trilogy it gave some credibility to the little unknown sci fi movie with a total budget probably lower than Transformers catering budget.

By: bam

bam — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:42:04 +0000

I think this list would have been much better if they said special effects for their time. Obvisiously effects get easier and easier. We should praise the ones ahead of their time. Such as king kong. Yes to use today it may look silly but it was made in 1933. That’s more impressive to me than the 20 movies that come out each year with explosions and what not. I would have liked to see movies that came out before 2000

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:26:49 +0000

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