“It’s like ... has anyone seen that movie ‘Tron’?”

Digital grading, color timing, processing, etc. don’t count as special effects. Here’s the thing: O Brother is a milestone for doing the work digitally. What I think most folks don’t realize is that color, contrast, saturation, etc. have always been manipulated. It’s been that way since the silent era. Consider this:…

People might not think animation needs “special effects” because you can draw anything, but Disney’s multi-plane camera for Snow White was pretty major innovation in creating depth when compositing shots.

A lot of Jurassic Park is practicals. Many of the raptor shots are puppets and suits, like in this shot

Is a movie a comedy if it doesn’t make anyone laugh?

I don’t think I’m downplaying it. I think it’s a very cool-looking scene and the most interesting use of CGI in any of the Marvel movies. But on the criteria that seem to have been used for this article, I don’t think it should be especially celebrated. Is it innovative? Not really. They took a tool already in wide…

A legitimately great movie. The acting goes right with the book, if you’ve ever read it. The acting is stodgy and old-fashioned. The book had the same tone. Coppola covered the book in a near-perfect way.

Says you.

Someone probably already posted this below but I’ll say it again; James Cameron’s TITANIC, hellooooooo?

YMMV, but Dr Strange takes Inception and amplifies it. The way they execute all of the magic fight scenes is fucking incredible; there is clearly a ton of thought behind every aspect of their kind of magic

I think you’re severely downplaying the open your eye scene in Dr. Strange. That shit was amazing. 

I’m more surprised by the lack of Titanic actually

Which does not follow under the purview of special effects.

Forrest Gump?! Come on. The “magic” of inserting Tom Hanks into historical footage looked as bad then as it does now, and it obliterates any good will that the effects folks might have generated with Lt. Dan’s legs.

Get that weak shit off my track!

Counterpoint: Speed Racer is vastly underrated and actually pretty great.

Surprised no titanic, not sure if it really broke ground but it did such a spectacular job of blending miniatures, cgi and lifelike sets 

One of the best movies ever. Highly underrated.

I have to insist on a hugely important film: The Thief of Bagdad (1940). HUGELY important to the field of visual effects, this film’s VFX artists pioneered the chroma key process by devising the first blue-screen compositing method. It was employed successfully for the first time on this film, and you’d be hard…

The Black Hole’s opening sequence was the longest CGI sequence of the time.