Aug 27 2009100 Years Of Movie Special Effects In 5:00
This is a little video montage of notable special effects from movies in the past 100 years all packed into a five minute clip. And as you'll see, we haven't come very far. I want to be able to feeeeeel the movies. I read Brave New World in high school! Also, almost half of a Shakespeare play. Now it's all comic books and cereal boxes.
100 Years of Special Effects [collegehumor]
Thanks to Paul, who once got specially infected by the government and now has the power of three men.
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Reader Comments
1. Pedo Pedro - August 27, 2009 5:19 PM
1ST
2. oyemeng - August 27, 2009 5:28 PM
pretty cool...but how do you skip 2001: A Space Odyssey?
3. Eskimobob - August 27, 2009 5:29 PM
third
4. BathCaptain - August 27, 2009 5:29 PM
Neato!
Special Effects are cool cuz people can do it at home now
http://themostawesomepageintheuniverse.com/2009/08/kid-is-powerfull-funny-vfx/
5. Jess - August 27, 2009 5:35 PM
What was the song playin in background?
6. Cup-O-Jesus - August 27, 2009 5:49 PM
@3 Eskimobob
Are you HalibutBob from Anchorage?
7. Ollie Williams - August 27, 2009 6:13 PM
Blocked at work.
8. Cup-O-Jesus - August 27, 2009 6:22 PM
Meh.
What about 100 years of porn? Just sayin'.
Or 100 years of stabbing an ice pic into PedoPedro's eye?
9. Ocelot - August 27, 2009 6:27 PM
Cool montage! Could've chosen some better current special effects than those CGI marathons...
10. Dan - August 27, 2009 6:44 PM
The song is Rods and Cones from Blue Man Group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-yLfm5HsHc
11. HeyHey - August 27, 2009 6:50 PM
the Bill Nighy/Davey Jones thing is way more bitchen then young/old Brad Pitt thing..
12. Mr. cow - August 27, 2009 7:15 PM
Moo
13. Turtle - August 27, 2009 7:17 PM
Ya, i like how the mojority was recent films..
if u are gona put in cgi mine as well throw in something from the watchmen or something very recent.
Not that im some watchmen fanboy, just thought the cgi was interesting.
14. ted - August 27, 2009 7:20 PM
best movie was king kong '33 style.
ben button was poo and a huge waste of time
15. George Lucas - August 27, 2009 7:33 PM
Super Fail.
Omitted movies that should have been included:
A Trip To The Moon (1902)
Nosferatu (1922)
Metropolis (1927)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Birds (1963)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Westworld (1973)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Willow (1988)
Total Recall (1990)
Death Becomes Her (1992)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Dragonheart (1996)
Independence Day (1996)
Twister (1996)
The Fifth Element (1997)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Titanic (1997)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Fight Club (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
Hollow Man (2000)
The Perfect Storm (2000)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001 - 2003)
Sin City (2005)
300 (2006)
Watchmen (2009)
16. Jokey - August 27, 2009 8:01 PM
Pretty cool but I figured The Matrix "bullet time" would have shown up considering how many subsequent movies used that technique.
17. mario_h - August 27, 2009 8:09 PM
the matrix?
18. Yo - August 27, 2009 8:47 PM
Wasn't the clip of the death star exploding from one of the later versions that was done, and not the original 1977 release?
19. Dream - August 27, 2009 10:16 PM
The Day The Earth Stood Still (The first one that was black & white.) The effect where the alien person shoots the laser and all the soldiers guns dissappear
20. Dishy Dishyington - August 27, 2009 10:53 PM
Agree about Sin City. Morph city really. Maybe throw some XMen stuff in there? Planet of the Apes, or was that mostly costumes?
21. Dishy Dishyington - August 27, 2009 10:57 PM
Oops, I was thinking of Dark City not Sin City.
22. Fork-o-fork - August 27, 2009 11:04 PM
@18... Took the post right out of my ... mouth?
23. Mike - August 28, 2009 12:01 AM
Fail.
24. Tashikoma - August 28, 2009 1:37 AM
We haven't come very far? I think you're confusing effects with plot. We've come a huge way and will continue the legacy of O'Brien and Harryhausen and Tsuburaya.
What are you smoking?
25. Milkman - August 28, 2009 3:31 AM
Can't believe whoever made this jumped from some sh*tty sinbad/jason and argonauts stop action b movie to star wars and didn't include 2001 a space oddysey. 2001 effects were in many ways better than star wars and the film is still relevant 40 years later.
FAIL
26. Emode - August 28, 2009 3:57 AM
Props to you for the Brave New World, that book is rad.
27. gren - August 28, 2009 4:09 AM
Where is Transformers ??
28. Jaded Icon - August 28, 2009 8:55 AM
@ 25
The reason is they have yet to find one person that has been able to stay awake through the whole thing.
29. theRealRoboticDeathArmy Clone1 - August 28, 2009 10:20 AM
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30. theRealRoboticDeathArmy Clone1 - August 28, 2009 10:21 AM
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31. George Washington - August 28, 2009 10:49 AM
watch out for that RAPIST GENIE.
32. Blastphemer - August 28, 2009 11:33 AM
@ 15 I'm blocked at work, but after reading your list...let's just say this montage won't be the first thing I pull up after work.
Just kidding...the first thing I pull up after work is my pants. Totally meant the SECOND thing I pull up after work.
33. Mark4Nier - August 28, 2009 1:55 PM
Odd how there was no Sky Captain, the first movie to ever not have a single prop.
34. Mr. Krinkle - August 28, 2009 2:11 PM
@ 18 and 22
Montage fail. That was the updated Death Star explosion, not the explosion from the 1977 version.
35. the heat - August 29, 2009 1:40 AM
Funny how the early black and white special effects looked more realistic than Avatar. Too bad James Cameron didn't hire Melies.
I liked the music a lot. It strongly reminds me of "Theme from Blue I/II" by COIL. Thanks for the Blue Man reference. Although it seems to be a remix of the song in youtube video.
36. the heat - August 29, 2009 2:19 AM
Okay. COIL -or- "Hallucination Generation" by Gruesome Twosome, each of which reminds me of the other.
That's all I wanted to say.
Seacrest out.
37. Free ipod - August 29, 2009 12:24 PM
wait this was made like this year so how is it from a hundred years ago? think it through gw
38. Geekogee - August 30, 2009 5:15 AM
Must See!!!
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39. Dano - August 30, 2009 4:23 PM
As already pointed out, this was total fail for not including a Matrix clip. They also left out monster makeup (Frankenstein), animatronics (TMNT) and any advances in animated features (Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story).
40. links of london - August 31, 2009 10:01 PM
http://www.linksoflondons.uk.com/
41. Steampunk T-rex - September 22, 2009 1:31 AM
good clip, although WAYYYY too short to show all of the technical advances in special effects in movies over the last 100 years
i don't understand why they didn't put the matrix in there with the use of multiple cameras for slow motion (bullet time) rotation, i.e. the first time Neo dodges bullets...