Science Fiction and Fantasy

What movie, in your opinion, had the greatest special effects ever? Which scene or scenes blew you away and why?

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• Sky Captain and the world of Tomorrow - ballsy CGI wowsiness.
• Appleseed - for knowing how real things should look. Textures, wardrobe (Prada) and toonifying 3d modelling.
• Small Soldiers - for excellent use of animatronics
• Final Fantasy (The Spirits Within) - Aki's pupils and some other skin textures.
• La Kaeena - general solid ness and accurate proportioning

• Star Wars - very impressive dog fights, flight over death star etc.
• Star Trek The Motion Picture - Warp speed FX.
• Destination Moon - acceleration & weightless FX
• Forbidden Planet - Id monster under barrage of energy weapon fire
• Clash of the Titans - stop motion abilities.
• Seven Voyages of Sinbad - stop motion abilities (The Roc).
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Live action & toon accurate co-location and timing.

• Metropolis - visual style, model building, mirror merging live and model.
• Melies "Trip to the moon" (Le Voyage Dans La Lune?) - taking everything they learnt in magic lantern shows and putting it in film.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow...must remember that one. Have not seen it yet. Is it really good? Jude Law and Angelina Jolie is in that one, right?

The story of Sky Captain was interesting. A diesel punk film alright.

The acting was, erm, "authentic for the era" would be the kindest expression. Jude Law would easily pass as Buster Crabbe or one of those other Flash Gordon, Crash Corrigan type heros.

I think the acting was deliberately hammed up. No one would act that bad except on purpose.

Still the visuals were very impressive, and the story, taking a 30's centric view, was fun. Don't "rush out and buy it", but sure, put it low priority on your Netflix queue.

Ok just wondered. May go check and see if the library has it.

I saw Wanted ...I think that was the title with Angelina Jolie as an assasin.

That was a good movie.