Hi every buddy! Yes, you read that right, you’re all my buddies. So much in fact that I wanted to share with you the greatest thing ever! No, not me. Even though that would be a treat. I often have disputes with people who go see movies and tell me about the amazing CGI… and that’s where their argument ends. As if saying the movie had great special effects therefore the movie was awesome. If this was the case all album covers that were amazingly detailed would give the effect of making the songs on said album the best songs ever.
So, with this argument, I wanted to give you, every buddy, the top ten best special effects ever that have been in movies.
10. 100 Million BC
I remember standing in line for the midnight release tickets of 100 Million BC and having a great conversation with the other guy in line. He became my first black friend and we made jokes about our ethnicities and we laughed, and laughed. We split a malt and then painted model trains after the movie.
9. Troll 3
Its been a long tradition of using toys and models in movies to duplicate for the real thing. SPOILER ALERT, so please read on with care:
Most of the space ships in the Star Wars movies were actually just small models and placed into a digital back ground to make it look like they were in space. Shooting in space gets expensive so they had to limit the filming of real space ships to a minimum. I read somewhere that ILM did this shot in Troll 3 as well, I think.
8. Escape From L.A.
Quite possibly the best under-water scene ever recorded on film. It appears like the film crew actually built an under water city in L.A. and trained a shark to pop up at the exact moment. Man! The amount of time they must have taken to get the glass to shatter so realistically is just beyond me. Kudos, Escape 2, kudos.
7. Troll 2
How this movie gets a bad rep is beyond me, it’s on Netflix Instant for a reason. Each time I rewatch this movie it almost feels like there is more and more tension and scarier every time. It’s a touching tale of family and the horrors that can actually happen to a small town. The rubber and Jello mixed with green food coloring just adds to that.
6. Freddy Vs Jason
I heard there are other movies with Jason and Freddy in them but I haven’t ever heard of them. And the best part? I don’t need to watch them. besides, they are old and movies that are old are lame. Freddy Vs Jason was so good because it didn’t need to have a back story, it was perfect the way it was. There should be more combination movies too, in my opinion. Something like Jurassic Park Vs. Terrorasaur, The Fast and The Furious Vs. Cars, and what about Transformers 2 Vs. Transformers 3… oh how awesome would that be?? Too Awesome, right?
5. Lost In Space
As cute as real animals are they don’t stand a chance against the naturalistic movements and the uber cute factor of the CG alien monkey. I was THIS close to getting this little guy tattooed on my stomach next to my tattoo of Mac & Me.
4. Anaconda 3
I own all the Anaconda movies on Blu Ray, all special edition versions. And get this… I bought them at a garage sale! Someone was actually getting rid of them. I asked Mr.s Clausberg why she wanted to part with these cinematic gems and she said they were just too scary for her. I have to agree. While Arachnophobia may have given some people the fear of spiders, I didn’t think the spiders in that movie looked very real. They should have taken a note from Anaconda 3 and taken the time to make their villains look as convincing and deadly.
3. Shark Attack 3: Megalodon
This one almost didn’t make it on my list because the shark was a little blurry. But I thought about it. THAT IS EXACTLY HOW A SHARK ATTACK WOULD LOOK! They are so fast and deadly scary that you would never see them coming or attacking or eating you. You’d be like, “Oh no, I’m falling in the mouth of a shark!” But in this case, I was OK with this guy getting eaten as violently and brutally real as he did because I’m not sure if you noticed while it was happening in the clip but he actually takes the life jacket from the nice lady. What a jerk, right? Go ahead and rewatch it, I missed it the first few times I saw this in the theater.
2. The Mummy Returns
This is quite possibly one of the best movie series ever made. I waited in line for a day to see this movie at the midnight showing and boy howdy was I happy I did. I had the whole theater to myself because I waited so long. As for this scene… I have no idea how they go the Rock into that giant scorpion costume but it is flawless. Each movement is perfect motion and just… I mean, c’mon Peter What’sHisNameFromLordOfTheRings, take a queue and make your cave trolls and Go-Lumb more believable. This scene was so real I actually believed for a second that maybe the Rock was really in real life a scorpion man. But then I was like, “No, it’s just a movie, Junk, it’s just a movie.”
1. DarkWolf
MOST. REALISTIC. WEREWOLF. TRANSFORMATION. EVER.
