TGIF! Every week on “Freebie Friday” we offer our readers an opportunity to win free prizes. This week we’re giving away 5-packs of free Redbox rentals to three lucky winners!
Jurassic Park celebrates its 20th anniversary by lumbering back into theaters in 3D this weekend. This movie is known for its groundbreaking special effects, which got us thinking about other effects-filled movies. Enter this week’s contest by answering the following question in the comments section below:
What movie has the best special effects of all time?
Your choices can range from recent films that are full of CGI to the quaint days of puppets and matte paintings. Some picks might be Star Wars, The Matrix, and Jaws, but don’t forget about other innovators like Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Terminator 2, Titanic, and 2001.
On Monday the 8th we will pick three winners at random from the submitted comments. Each winner will receive five free Redbox rentals! Multiple comments will disqualify you, so please respond just once.
Good luck, Insiders!
Update
Congratulations to our winners: FAN9ATIC, Donaldot, and alma! We’ll be in touch shortly about your prizes.
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Ironman
Titanic
The Matrix is classic.
All of the Matrix movies.
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Short answer, Star Wars
This is really tough, because you have to really split it into 2 categories… with CGI and without. Obviously the latter is much more challenging to pull off, and I picked Star Wars for non-CGI (and overall) because it raised the bar for generations to come. For CGI-based it’s a toss-up between Inception and Avatar
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Inception
Inception
An american werewolf in london. Awesome, real life effects, done right in front of the camera. No CGI junk there. Plus, this is the only movie where the wolf tranformation was pulled off in clear view. In a word, awesome!
Titanic
I really like the macro photography effects in The Fountain.
I liked the effects in Avatar.
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I think The Birds! It was way before it’s time!!!
Inception
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Lord Of the Rings trilogy
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, hands down. The combination of CGI, forced perspective, miniatures, dry-for-wet, motion capture, and prosthetics is epic. The filmmakers even invented a new way of making CGI fire.
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Original Journey to the Center of the Earth.
I just saw the Host and the special effects were really cool
Ironman
Avatar in 3D
I’m choosing Star Wars because it was groundbreaking at the time and set the bar for all movies to come.
Iron Man 2
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Avatar.
Alien movies. Definitely.
Inception
2001 a Space Odyssey was ahead of its time.
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…Without a doubt: “Plan 9 from Outer Space”…
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Avatar blew me away! Loved it!
The Fountain has really cool effects
Star Wars
Avatar
Twilight breaking down part 2 And Lol and so undercover
Pirates of the Caribbean