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?

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Gremlins. My brother and I were just discussing this because we heard that the new Gremlins movie will be using analog effects.

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      1 day ago

      My favorite effect in gremlins is spoken word. Hear me out. The movies aren’t really scary and rely mostly on jump scare effects.

      However the ‘Santa stuck in the chimney’ story is such a powerful, unexpected confrontation with a claus-trophobic (pun trademarked from now on) and disgusting gory event that it makes the whole movie feel so much darker as a kid.

      Trough that scene the whole movie is elevated (in a horror genre perspective) from a funny sorry with jump-starts to something that sticks with you for way longer.

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        2 days ago

        We live in the timeline that all the other timelines use as a ridiculous example.

        You’re telling me there’s a dimension for EVERY possibility?

        Yup.

        So there’s a timeline where Donald Trump becomes president?

        Twice!