In jumping on the effect and bringing it to fans, filmmaker James Cameron did everything a sequel should: expand on what made the original work, while bringing new ideas to the table.īut it wasn't just the T-1000 that made the movie. It appeared to be the very definition of "unstoppable killing machine," and made Arnold's model look like an old-timey pocket watch by comparison. This new terminator could phase through walls, absorb bullets, and shape shift to create metal piercers. "Computer-generated images are a way of coming up with new effects - particularly after we've been doing traditional effects for 80 years," ILM visual FX supervisor Dennis Muren said of the then-gestating process. From the game-changing stop motion of 1933's "King Kong" to the chilling makeup mastery of 1973's "The Exorcist" to the strikingly modern spaceships of "2001: A Space Odyssey," these are older films whose visuals still hold up. With that in mind, here's a look back on the best special effects of older movies.
CGI wasn't widely rolled out until the mid-to-late 1990's, so any film released before that had to get very creative in its world-building. Sure, some groundbreaking achievements (like Chris Evans turned scrawny in "Captain America: The First Avenger," or bringing actors back from the dead) get the attention such creativity deserves, but even the slightest misstep in CGI or practical effects risks not only knocking the viewer out of their desired state of immersion, but also an onslaught of online ridicule.īack in the day, things were very, very different. This is unfair, of course, to the under-appreciated VFX crews working to the bone to make visual magic happen, but after decades of a Hollywood visual arms race, perfection has become the bare minimum requirement to keep an audience's attention.
Audiences have become so accustomed to block-busting explosions, planet-piercing laser beams, invincible superheroes and light-speeding spaceships that we've grown inured to visuals that attempt to turn fantasy into reality.
Today, special effects often just don't feel very.
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