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6 Mind Blowing Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI

6 Mind Blowing Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI
Computer generated images are like the foam sets of the present era: 20 years from now, people are going to laugh their asses off at the fact that this stuff looked even remotely real to us. That's why, as we've mentioned before, there are still filmmakers doing special effects the old-fashioned way -- even if the results are so impressive that you'd never know it's not CGI. There's CGI in Cracked's new Adventures in Jedi School mini-series, but the humor is all a practical effect. #6. Inception -- The Dream Collapsing Inception is one of those movies that could have easily gotten away with doing every single special effect in CGI, because it's full of so many insane moments that we assume half the things in it are computer generated anyway (for example, there's no evidence that Ken Watanabe is a real person). Water: Leonardo DiCaprio's Natural Enemy Since 1997. "Finally, I can pee in public and no one will know!" Meanwhile, four exceptionally heavy sleepers rest inside a flying van. #5. #4.

5 Great Movie Scenes Made Possible by Reckless Endangerment Sometimes, the only way to capture a truly horrifying and brutal moment on film is to horrify and brutalize the actors, as happens surprisingly often. Yes, even in the age of computer effects and entire sequences shot in front of a green screen with tennis balls, there is still no substitute for gross neglect of human safety. #5. Inglourious Basterds: The Actors Almost Burn in the Theater Fire SPOILERS: In the climax of Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's narrative veers off course from historical fiction and gives the audience a more cathartic and hyper-violent Hitler death than the boring old suicide in a bunker we're all used to. Specifically, some Nazi-killing Jews shoot him in the face hundreds of times with machine guns while a theater burns to the ground around them. "Thank God we shot him before the fire killed him!" Ironically, shooting the assassination of Hitler nearly killed the two actors (Eli Roth and Omar Doom) who were supposed to be doing the assassinating. #4. #3.

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5 Movies Made Possible by Characters Who Suck at Their Job Hollywood movies often show us people who are ridiculously good at their jobs, like cops trained to avoid massive explosions, doctors who catch serial killers or IT guys who single-handedly stop alien invasions. However, it turns out that the plots of a lot of these movies can be tracked down to some other jackasses totally half-assing it at their jobs, either because they are bad at it or simply because they don't feel like trying that day. So if you're reading this at work right now instead of finishing that report, keep in mind that you might very well be setting off the plot of movies like ... #5. Die Hard: With a Vengeance -- The Random Cop Who Fails to Recognize a Wanted Terrorist He Just Saw In Die Hard: With a Vengeance, John McClane (Bruce Willis) must once again stop a needlessly complicated criminal plot by a German guy named Gruber. "I'm not racist! The nerd with the glasses. They spent months perfecting their yippie-ki-yays. "Can we open a window? Goddammit, Ricky. #4. #3.

CALLIHOO Writing Helps--Feelings Table Character Feelings You can describe your character's feelings in more exact terms than just "happy" or "sad." Check these lists for the exact nuance to describe your character's intensity of feelings. SF Characters | SF Items | SF Descriptors | SF Places | SF EventsSF Jobs/Occupations | Random Emotions | Emotions List | Intensity of Feelings 6 Stupid Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies) Hollywood wants you dead. We said it. We don't know why. We don't know what they could possibly gain from it, but it's true all the same. Hollywood has been teaching you lessons about guns for decades and decades. Hollywood wants you to build your entire understanding of guns based on the gun tropes they parade in all of their movies. That's right. Dead wrong. #6. Most of you probably don't own guns, but you all have a pretty good idea of just how dangerous they can be. Or that famous scene from True Lies where Jamie Lee Curtis drops a MAC-10 down a staircase and murders half a Guantanamo worth of enemy combatants. The Geneva Conventions don't say shit about unmanned weapons. Alas, for the screenwriters of the world, modern firearms do not fire when dropped just a little bit. GettyAnd thus the great sport of Gun Toss was born. If anything, the Hollywood-concocted myth about guns firing on impact inspires us to be even dumber with guns. #5. But that plastic gun never materialized. #4.

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6 Absurd Movie Plots You Won't Believe Are Based on Reality We spend so much time here debunking silly things we see in fiction that it's easy to forget how truly ridiculous real life is in comparison. Even the silliest, most implausible characters or plots from action movies have come true. Not often, mind you, but they do happen. We're talking about things like ... #6. Badass Adventurer Scientists Indiana Jones movies, The Mummy movies, The Da Vinci Code movies, those Nicholas Cage movies that basically rip off The Da Vinci Code -- they all feature ridiculous but popular characters: university professors who throw away their mortarboards and "research" history by punching it right in the goddamn face. "Before you start killing everyone, would you mind fact-checking my thesis on Ancient Egyptian religion?" Nobody believes it's really like this, or at least we hope not. But It Has Happened ... Wikipedia"I try to carry at least one thing that could impale a Nazi at all times." thedispersalofdarwin"You're my next hat." #5. Daily MailPictured: Minions.

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6 Crucial Movie Scenes That Never Made it Out of the Script There's a saying in Hollywood: "Cut what you love." No, it's not about cocaine. It means that it doesn't matter how expensive, beautiful or awesome a scene is -- if you can cut it and still have the movie make sense, then cut it. Of course, sometimes the movie doesn't make sense without that crucial deleted scene, but we just didn't notice it. #6. We've mentioned before how Quentin Tarantino's Hitler-killing epic Inglourious Basterds ties the entire Tarantinoverse together like a fine carpet, but one mystery still remains: Why the hell is the title misspelled? If that's the case, then he probably shouldn't have put the answer right there in the script, where we can see it. Getty"Alright, it's Marsellus Wallace's soul. The Missing Scene: The script by Tarantino contains an extended flashback sequence starring Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz, a part played by Eli Roth that was originally written for Adam Sandler. imsdb.com"Put down your Yahtzee/It's time to beat some Nazis ..." #5. #4.

Cult Movies - Top 10 List - Top Ten List - Top 10 Films About Nonconformists - Nonconformity Quotes - Nonconformist Quotes - Nonconformists in Film - Barfly Top 10 Films About Nonconformists "This is a world where everybody's gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody's gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do. All the things that I don't wanna be. "If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed." "Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. "They're not that different from you, are they? "My life, I mean . . . "Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. "I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. "Vice, Virtue. "Anybody here? "And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Forgotten Movie Classics © 2015 Shelf-Life Productions LLC

5 True Stories Cut from Movies for Being Too Unrealistic As we've repeatedly pointed out, in Hollywood the words "Based on a True Story" are usually just a code for "Vaguely Resembling a True Story, but Mostly Bullshit." Sometimes, the filmmakers feel like they have to lie and make up stuff to make the story more interesting -- but it turns out that other times, they actually have to cut stuff that really happened because it's all so awesome that no one would believe it. Here are some mind-blowing moments from real life that Hollywood decided were too fantastic, even for their movies. #5. The Scene: About halfway through Public Enemies, a biopic of Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger (played by Johnny Depp), Dillinger manages to break himself out of jail by whittling a chunk of wood into a shape resembling a pistol, painting it black with shoe polish and then taking three guards hostage as he raided their weapons stores. "Looks like you just got Dillingered." The Reality: #4. adoholik.comWhy do you hate freedom so much, Cloverfield monster?

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