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?

  • stoly@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Forever underappreciated. They were hiring research professors at universities to do that stuff. It was so cutting edge that it was actually experimental.

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      16 days ago

      And they got disqualified from the Oscars “because they cheated” – the following year there was a brand new nomination category for computer generated effects…

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        16 days ago

        Just like the monkeys in 2001. They were so good, the Oscar jury thought they were animals instead of actors.