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In its original form, the movies have always been about illusions. Unlike many other art form, movies strive hard to fool the audience into believing what they’re seeing, and nothing has exemplified that mission more than the ongoing evolution of visual effects. Throughout movie history, some movies have pushed the envelope - and some of them deserve singular recognition.
With visual effects more commonplace in movies than ever, here are 32 movies that revolutionized visual effects, or VFX.
32. Metropolis (1927)
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31. Superman: The Movie (1978)
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30. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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The thought of traversing deep space is exciting as it is frightening, and no movie has ever captured those sensations quite like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Among the many sequences the movie is known for, it’s the “Stargate” sequence that still inspires filmmakers today. The movie’s VFX supervisor was Douglas Trumbull, who figured out a way of producing a psychedelic corridor of lights and shapes that engulfed astronauts (and perhaps audiences) to the point of madness. Trumbull achieved the effect using a setup he called “Slit-Scan,” which involved shooting moving footage composed of back-lit artwork while the camera lens shutter stayed open as the camera itself moved in the physical space.
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29. Independence Day (1996)
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27. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
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26. Starship Troopers (1997)
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25. King Kong (2005)
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24. Life of Pi (2012)
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23. The Avengers (2012)
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22. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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21. Sin City (2005)
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20. District 9 (2009)
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2009 was a busy time for visual effects cinema, with James Cameron’s Avatar capping off the year in epic fashion. But the Oscar-nominated sci-fi feature District 9, from Neil Blomkamp, caught many people’s attention, not just because of its independent production nor its reimagining of the alien invasion story as a politically charged parable. Image Engine, a scrappy visual effects studio based in Vancouver, was tasked with bringing the movie’s many aliens to life, a task made extra difficult because of the movie’s documentary feel. (In other words: shaky cameras.) In a 2009 interview with Studio Daily, VFX producer Shawn Walsh commented: “They’re so banal, with a reality TV-era appeal, and you completely forget that there’s an alien staring at you in that shot …District 9was a real surprise to people going into the theater cold, who didn’t know what to expect.”
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19. Cloverfield (2008)
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18. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
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Movies throughout the 2010s developed a fascination with using digital effects to alter an actor’s age. Movies like The Irishman and Avengers: Endgame (both in 2019) used effects to make actors look younger (Robert De Niro) or older (Chris Evans) than they were. But that arms race began in David Fincher’s sweeping romantic drama from 2008, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Much of the movie’s aging effects were the responsibility of Digital Domain, who pioneered work in digital “makeup” that made Brad Pitt look “old” (but as a child, since his character Benjamin Button ages in reverse). In a 2009 article from WIRED, Digital Domain revealed it strove to capture as much information from Brad Pitt’s face as possible and thus used a “then-unproven” technology called phosphorous capture that, according to WIRED, “involves applying phosphorescent powder to a face, exposing it to black light, and imaging it to create 3D-data” of Pitt’s expressions. At the 81st Academy Awards, the film won (among other trophies) the award for Best Visual Effects.
17. Interstellar (2014)
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Christopher Nolan’s science fiction masterpiece Interstellar is centered around mankind pushing into the great unknown, throwing caution and hope and even sanity through the black holes that scatter outer space. The problem: No one in human history has physically been inside a black hole. (Like, haveyoubeen through a black hole?) Creating and depicting black holes - and sure, the faraway alien planets too - with adherence to scientific accuracy was the daunting job of DNEG, whose work won them the Oscar for Best Visual Effects at the 87th Academy Awards.
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16. The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
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When filmmaking VFX reached new heights in the 2000s, disaster movies came roaring back such as in Roland Emmerich’s 2004 hit The Day After Tomorrow. In a retrospective interview with SYFY Wire in 2023, VFX supervisor Karen Goulekas recalled the movie’s premise of freak weather hitting major cities as particularly difficult to make the elements look photorealistic. “There was nothing that felt like a cakewalk,” Goulekas said. “That was daunting stuff back then. I was excited at the challenge, but I was like, ‘Oh, sh**.'”
15. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
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Is there a CGI character that looks better than Davy Jones? Years after the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest in 2006, Davy Jones still holds his own against so many other VFX creatures, from Gollum to Thanos. On ILM’s website, the studio describes how it achieved the effect of Davy Jones. First, it details Imocap, a “lightweight, low-footprint” system that makes it possible “for actors to perform motion-capture on location.” This surely helped director Gore Verbinski work directly with his actors on the actual sets, rather than working with them separately much later at a mo-cap studio. ILM also describes Davy Jones’ octopus beard. The movie’s creature artists, ILM says, “put in wonderful animation controls that allowed animators to move the tentacles in very specific ways.” A custom program was developed “that would drive the individual joins between the segments of the beard with a whole variety of perimeters for high-level control that would dictate emotional changes.”
14. Transformers (2007)
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There’s more than meets the eye with Transformers. Michael Bay’s bombastic blockbuster from 2007 stands the test of time with aging-like-wine visual effects that made the Autobots and Decepticons look as real as Megan Fox. In a 2017 interview with VFX Voice to mark the franchise’s tenth anniversary, VFX supervisor Scott Farrar said that part of what made his team’s work age well is that the very designs of the Transformers look like real car parts. After junking the original concept art, which made the Transformers look like organic, gooey aliens, Farrar and his team started referencing car parts to “get our asset team building the models to use those pieces to build our robots.”
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13. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
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12. Pacific Rim (2013)
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11. Gravity (2013)
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10. Inception (2010)
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9. Blade Runner (1982)
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8. The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)
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The visual effects accomplishments in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings are as vast as J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings. While the trilogy is a famous example of cinematic forced perspective (to help sell the size differences of Hobbits to humans), it’s also a visual effects marvel, such as with the character Gollum. Weta pushed the technical envelope to transform actor Andy Serkis, undoubtedly the leading motion-capture actor in all of Hollywood, into the tragic creature Gollum. Beyond Gollum, the trilogy’s large-scale battle scenes and numerous impossible creatures all make a case that Lord of the Rings, while a fantasy, is also a marvel of science.
7. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
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6. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
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5. The Matrix (1999)
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4. Avatar (2009)
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3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
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When Robert Patrick’s T-1000 phases through prison bars and transforms his limbs into liquid swords, audiences knew that Terminator 2: Judgment Day was on a different level. In a 2017 oral history feature on VFX Blog, ILM staff who worked on the effect recalled how the T-1000 pushed technical possibilities to the absolute limit. (ILM worked alongside Stan Winston Studio.) Said software developer Eric Enderton: “It was a really rare situation where you knew the film was going to be big. That hardly ever happens. We worked on stuff that we thought was going to be terrible and it turned out to be great, and then some things that went more the other direction, but this was one you just knew it was going to be big.”
2. Jurassic Park (1993)
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1. Tron (1982)
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In the early 1980s, computers and video games had a serious foothold in the American imagination. The popularity of arcades and the Atari 2600 console made games feel like standing at the gates to a multiverse of virtual worlds. So it is fitting that the 1982Disneymovie, Tron, is a visual effects marvel that changed how movies look and feel forever, never mind that the movie only looks that way for about 15 minutes of screentime. While the movie itself only received lukewarm reviews for its story, critics correctly pointed out the movie’s technical achievements in its tale about a video game developer who “enters” a program, where arcade games play out like ancient Roman coliseums. In a 2022 article for The Guardian, director Steve Lisberger said that the movie was a marriage between old and new school animation. “We were the bridge from analogue to digital, and that is a unique thing,” Lisberger said. “It was unlike any other movie that had been made, and no movie will ever be made like this again.”
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