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?

  • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Especially when you compare the effects in Lord of the Rings to the Hobbit. You can really see when the studio is overworked and underpaid, even when it’s a studio as good as weta.

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      3 days ago

      I can usually turn a blind eye to bad CGI, but The Hobbit was next-level awful. It wasn’t so much bad as unfinished. I felt I was watching a pirated movie before post production was complete.

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        Check out the M4 fan edit. I recommend this at every opportunity haha. They cut down the entire extended trilogy into a 4 hour film, covering only the events in The Hobbit novel. One of the many adjustments they make is colour correction, which really helps with the “unfinished” feel you’re talking about. It’s incredibly well done, and aside from a few janky cuts is the definitive version of The Hobbit movies imo.