Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
What makes a great special effects movie? Showing us things that aren’t seen in real life, and making us believe them. Whether a movie is good at that depends on a lot of things, not the least of which is audience expectations. Seeing two copies of one actor in a frame isn’t a big deal these days, but 100 years ago, it was a spectacular use of available technology.
The emergence of the Imperial cruiser at the beginning of Star Wars was very impressive in 1977 because of the clever staging of the shot, but it only worked the first time you saw it. Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion animation was amazing in its time, as was CGI in the ’90s, before we got used to it. But special effects keep getting…The post The 50 Greatest Special Effects Movies of All Time appeared first on FeedBox.