Best movie with little or no special effects.

[GoblinOnFire]

Be Cool

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Casablanca was good.

 

[Sindre1]

Is heavy makeup or bodysuits ok?

 

[Grimm91]

I would say either Monty Python or Shawshank Redemption. Both have little to no effects and are great movies.

 

[Trace2010]

Clerks. Had a microbudget, and the only special effect was having Scott Mosier yell at himself during the hockey scene. The movie's always had a soft spot in my heart, as I was 13 or something when I first saw it. It's been one of the big developing movies of my adolescence.

Amended. Both Clerks and Clerks II for the same reasons listed above.

 

[Tharwen]

EDIT: forget this post

no... I never forget...



ok seriously now: Braveheart

 

[Stormcloud23]

The Boondock Saints

 

[crypt-creature]

Why compromise? Why not have both? CGI can be a way to tell a story. What if the story was to be set on the back of a snake flying through space, Special Effect are most definitly needed.

It would be great for a movie to have both, it's just that I see so many movies where they have compromised a good story for better CGI.
Having both would be lovely, but I'm not going to count on it happening for a lot of movies.

Though I was pretty impressed with the new Star Trek movie, and I'm not a huge fan of the franchise either.

 

[lava_lamp]

Schindler's List

 

[Trivun]

Plenty of mainstream romantic comedies, which I love, are made with little or no special effects. Hence I'd say any of them, mainly anything with Hugh Grant in (I just reckon he's a great actor...).

Plus, the pilot episode of Lost back in season 1 xD

 

[messy]

Have to go pulp fiction, no CGI unless you count the bit where Uma Therman draws a square in the air

 

[fedpayne]

Ong Bak (seconded), Se7en (there's a lot of costume/mannequin stuff, but actual CGI? I don't remember any), The Usual Suspects (stuff gets set on fire, that's about it), Pulp Fiction (There's... A cartoon square) and maybe Fight Club (I say maybe because some extremely subtle CGI may have been worked into the film in single frames or something just to mess with my head. It's that kind of movie.)

Actually, most Tarantino movies. Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, True Romance (he wrote the script), Reservoir Dogs... I think Kill Bill is about the only movie(s) of his that might have CGI special effects. It has anime, so I guess maybe that counts. I think Death Proof has some CGI. It's still great, though.

Fight Club? Yeah, interestingly enough, Edward Norton actually DID shoot himself through the face.

Special effects go beyond CGI. Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs have blood and stuff by the bucketload!

My personal choice would be Clerks or Annie Hall.

 

[Fox1789]

i liked Deathproof

 

[ffxfriek]

forest gump /thread

 

[Extravaganza]

Shaun of the dead!

Amen

 

[Uber Evil]

Looking over these, I'm pleasantly suprised by some of the ones I am seeing. I absolutely loved Shaun of The Dead and the only Monty Python movies I've seen, Holy Grail, and Airplane was great.

 

[God's Clown]

Does Shaun of the dead count? if it does, Shaun of the dead.

 

[VoltySquirrel]

My favorite is the Shawshank Redemption, I never noticed a special effect, but it was one of the best movies I'd ever seen.

^^^^^^^^^^This times infinity.^^^^^^^^^^

 

[Xvito]

A Clockwork Orange is a really good movie. I don't remember that many special effects...