This week's movie topic is all about Special Effects...
Here are my choices for movies that contain wicked awesome special effects. Share yours on your blog and back here at The Bumbles. And don't forget to visit your fellow participants!
JFK. I have a ton of problems with this movie in terms of narrative and content, but as an exercise in film making, I genuinely admire it. Oliver Stone interwove the real Zapruder film with actual news footage with stuff he made up, and he did it seamlessly. So seamlessly that by the time you it's over, you're not sure what you believe anymore. Likewise with the autopsy photographs. Now we could debate the movie's veracity and even its morality, but not its impact. It's a special effects tour de forc
e that won multiple awards for its editing.Die Hard. One of my favorite movies, a delightful thrill ride. Individual action sequences are still vivid in my mind's eye -- floors of Nakatomi Plaza being blown out, windows shattering and John McLane stepping through the broken glass with bare feet, and Hans' shocked face as he falls 35 floors to his death. Not unlike what the Bumbles said of Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump, I know that Alan Rickman probably only fell a few feet onto a mattress, but watching Hans descend sure as shit looked real!
Forrest Gump was good with the special effects too.
ReplyDeleteDie Hard - totally excellent choice! As for JFK - I haven't seen it since it first came out - but I do remember being awed by the "trickeration" of editing.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen JFK. But now I'll make a point of renting it. And Die Hard is just too damn cool.
ReplyDeleteI need to watch JFK. Fascinating stuff.
ReplyDeleteAny Bruce Willis flick is going to be great for sure Die hard is iconic!
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