thought I'd watch the first 10 minutes of terminator 2 judgement day last night and lazily watched the whole thing for roughly the 30th time - anyway when the baddie falls in the molten metal and all his past incarnations come screaming out of the magma to that haunting sound track in the background and he finally goes inside out up his arse b4 finally being terminated ... is that both conceptually and visually not the best bit of special effects of all time? some might say skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts or another piece of Cameron, a lot of the cgi of the last 10 years or so is s***e, I'm more of a character and story film watcher not explosions and illusions, but I wud be interested to know your fav bits of film special fx.

I watched that at the Imax when it first came out and it was absolutely stunning

I love some of the 'old' films, in part because the special effects were so bad - but probably the best that could be done with the available technology and resources. Maybe I mean 'quaint' as opposed to 'bad'. Some examples:

War of the Worlds (1950s)
The Day of the Triffids
When Worlds Collide

Edit: CORRECTION. The first movie title is: THE War of the Worlds.

2nd edit: Damned autocorrection!

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Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

The head that sprouts legs is quality.

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Plan 9 From Outer Space must be up there in the worst ever special effects category with it's flying saucers made from car hubcaps

Whilst Jaws is still a superb film, the effects even for then were bloody awful.

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit