15 Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Special Effects
![15 Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Special Effects](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/5/2/752852_320x180.jpg?v=2)
Special effects are a big reason why we watch movies. Ask anybody who suffered through the 70s Spider-Man TV show how much cooler he is today, and they'll tell you: it's all-the-way cooler. And there are just so many ways to accomplish effects. Stan Winston did it the old-fashioned way, and he did it really, really well. Like there’s no Jurassic Park, and a ton of other movies without Stan Winston.
You’d generally think that though, these days, any scene more complex than two people talking in a room would be green-screened and then filled in with CGI. Not so -- it turns out that some filmmakers love using practical effects, even when these are stupidly expensive and/or dangerous. Maybe it’s their nod to Stan Winston.
Or maybe it’s even because they’re stupidly expensive and/or dangerous -- but, hey, we’re not psychologists, we’re just internet comedians. Anyway, check out these examples and decide for yourself.
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - In Fellowship of the Ring, when Frodo and Gandalf are at the same table](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/6/8/752868.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - The fancy 3D shot in Snake's glider's computer in Escape From New York isn't 3D.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/6/7/752867.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - That's spaghetti squash splattering in the scene where ED-209 kills a young](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/6/4/752864.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - For Total Recall, the actors had to contort their faces in ridiculous grimaces for a day.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/6/5/752865.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - The Mangalore costumes in The Fifth Element included a little TV screen inside the head.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/6/6/752866.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - The chase scene in The Dark Knight was all physical.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/6/3/752863.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - In the book and train montage shot in Bram Stoker's Dracula,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/6/1/752861.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - The weightlessness in Apollo 13 is real.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/6/2/752862.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, there's a shot with two Jim Carreys.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/5/9/752859.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - In Knives Out, the photo of Richard, Linda and Ransom was added digitally.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/5/8/752858.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - When Uma Thurman is foaming at the mouth in Pulp Fiction after snorting coke,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/6/0/752860.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - The fire raging through New York in Independence Day was all real.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/5/7/752857.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects When Tyrell lowers the shades in his office in Blade Runner, no shades were actually lowered](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/5/6/752856.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - In Avengers: Endgame, the Quantum Realm suits are 100% CG.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/5/5/752855.jpg?v=2)
![Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - Snoke's throne room in The Last Jedi used no CGI.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/5/4/752854.jpg?v=2)