Best movie with little or no special effects.
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Children of Men, definitely. At least, it doesn't feature conventional special effects. The majority of alterations are made to create the illusion of one really long camera take; this is done a few times through the movie (to amazing effect, if I may add). That's really the only movie I can think of right now.
Oh, and Transformers. For sure.
Oh, and Transformers. For sure.
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Yeah pretty much all his movies fit in this category. I can't think of a single movie of his that has loads or any special effects beside maybe make-up or something.
I think the term CGI and 'special effects' just wasn't defined clearly enough in this thread... that, and just general lack of knowledge when it comes to how certain movies were made, and with what.PurpleRain said:
But again, I'm still talking about movies that have been compromised by CGI, or special effects.
Or to word myself better, movies that I felt had a good story, but was over looked because they used too much CGI and special effects to try and tell their story. Basically getting too carried away.
i think jarhead had no special effects, except for some explosions.
at the end of the film you realize the protagonist didnt even fire one shot.
at the end of the film you realize the protagonist didnt even fire one shot.
Gee, video games are doing the same. Almost all of the movies I like are from the 80s, & early 90s. But I'm gunna go with Nightmare on Elm Street series for horror, Police Academy series for comedy, Fantasia for animation, & clasic subtitled/dubbed Jackie Chan films for action.
I actualy have an aversion to CG special effects outside of horror & fantasy movies. It even took me up to 2007 to completely get rid of my hatred for 3D animation in cartoons & video games.
Yes, as the cool effects go up, the plot becomes dumber & the actors have to use retarded scripts from cheaper underdeveloped writers. It's as annoying as Disney using hollywood actors to do voices instead of getting professional voice actors.
I dunno why they bother with the CG; everything looks unrealistic & hoakey because things move at unrealistic speeds. I still remember how awful Spawn & Van Hellsing looked, the latter being simple terrible through & through.
I actualy have an aversion to CG special effects outside of horror & fantasy movies. It even took me up to 2007 to completely get rid of my hatred for 3D animation in cartoons & video games.
Yes, as the cool effects go up, the plot becomes dumber & the actors have to use retarded scripts from cheaper underdeveloped writers. It's as annoying as Disney using hollywood actors to do voices instead of getting professional voice actors.
I dunno why they bother with the CG; everything looks unrealistic & hoakey because things move at unrealistic speeds. I still remember how awful Spawn & Van Hellsing looked, the latter being simple terrible through & through.
As far as I know all films use special effects. Does it feature rain? then that is very likely a special effect, lighting can also be referred to as special effects although simple ones.
Simply put: Anything that the director cannot count on happening the exact way he wants it to (as in rain) will be made using special effects (in this case a rain boom).
Simply put: Anything that the director cannot count on happening the exact way he wants it to (as in rain) will be made using special effects (in this case a rain boom).
Hate to follow the masses, but when your opinion of the best movie ever doesn't have special effects, it's a given to be the best movie with little to now special effects. That movie, my friends, is The Shawshank Redemption. By the way, the novella it's based on is pretty good, too.
And unlike a lot of the films mentioned here, it actually has no special effects. Any action movie will have special effects, especially if any guns are used. They might not be digital but they are categorized as fx.whitemidget said:
I would have to suggest Pump up the Volume: probably one of the best teen movies of all time. Night on Earth too.
The Green Mile sprang to mind. A film that broke my heart the day I saw it - it was a late night preview and the lobby of the cinema was full of red-eyed and/or openly weeping people.
That said I guess there were a few practical effects and some CGI mice.
Really hard to be honest.
My personal bugbear these days is the overuse of CGI. Take the Matrix 2. You have the "burly brawl" where one Neo fights many Agents. And then you have the freeway chase. Both are CGI but one is so shitty I could scream and the other uses it with subtlety by adding in more cars for a greater sense of peril.
Guess organic CGI does not work for me. I was pretty disappointed with Spiderman for example.
That said I guess there were a few practical effects and some CGI mice.
Really hard to be honest.
My personal bugbear these days is the overuse of CGI. Take the Matrix 2. You have the "burly brawl" where one Neo fights many Agents. And then you have the freeway chase. Both are CGI but one is so shitty I could scream and the other uses it with subtlety by adding in more cars for a greater sense of peril.
Guess organic CGI does not work for me. I was pretty disappointed with Spiderman for example.
Trick question! Everyone knows that there's not such thing as a good movie that doesn't involve explosions and Matrix Reloaded-style car chases!