15 Ingenious Ways Movies Pulled Off Special Effects
If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it ... might not be a duck at all.
![15 Ingenious Ways Movies Pulled Off Special Effects](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/0/7/756607_320x180.jpg?v=2)
If you’ve watched a ton of movies, you can probably figure out instantly how they pulled off this or that effect -- whether it’s CGI, wire work, clever editing, or whatever else. But sometimes, filmmakers pull off effects in super weird ways, either because they were too broke to do anything else -- or because they really, really wanted to do it that way. For example:
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - Rogue One basically ditched green screens.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/3/756623.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - In The Social Network, the puffs of breath in Zuckerberg and Eduardo](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/9/756619.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - The Cabin in the Woods' Merman was played by a guy in prosthetics that](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/1/756621.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled OFor Baby Driver, the flashbacks of Baby's parents were shot with the kind of camera they shot silent movies with.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/0/756620.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - Logan used a phone app for the effects in the hotel scene.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/3/756613.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - The unbroken six-minute shot in True Detective Season 1 really was unbroken.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/7/756617.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - The billboards in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping were shot by Akiva Schaffer](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/8/756618.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - For the earthquake in 2012, they built a massive, 500,000-ton earthquake rig.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/6/756616.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - The Independence Day scene where alien ships enter the atmosphere,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/2/756622.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - The levitating truck in Thor: The Dark World was an actual cement truck.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/2/756612.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - For Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise pretty much really fought in a sci-fi war.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/0/756610.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - The chair at the console in Moon came from the make-up room at the studio.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/4/756614.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - In the opening of John Wick: Chapter 2, that motorcycle really crashed into a car.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/5/756615.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - Alien: Covenant's shot of the Covenant ship landing site was all real.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/1/756611.jpg?v=2)
![Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - Interstellar's scene with Matthew Mcconaughey in the wormhole didn't use CGI.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/0/9/756609.jpg?v=2)