What older movies made a good use of either side stepping special effects or have effects that somehow still hold up today? Why are they good movies?

  • chillpanzee@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    You can find some old Buster Keaton interviews on YouTube where he talks about the craft. Pretty good stuff.

    Terminator, despite being a classic and massively popular movie of the time, is pretty bad by modern SFX & VFX standards.
    The Thing (Jonh Carpenter) for a movie of the same era holds up impressivley well.

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      7 hours ago

      The Terminator came out around when I was born and I finally got around to watching it tonight.

      I have to give them props for trying with those full-body robot scenes but yeah, they’re rough.