The Best Practical Effect EVAR

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I'm in my mid-30s and somehow didn't watch The Thing until about 3 years ago, and I was blown away by how good that movie is. Truly a masterpiece and I'm glad Adam has such a love for it.

I had a moment of stunned silence when, after showing my daughter Raiders of the Lost Ark, I asked her what she thought, and she said "It was kinda boring"

Brazil is an absolute masterpiece. The effects, bouncing between ridiculous and far too real, the comedy, the pain. Especially when you know the battle between Gilliam and Sheinberg to be able to show it as he wanted it.

"There's this moment when everything stops-" Ad break. Just hilarious

Showing your kids your favourite films - I showed my kid Iron Giant when they were about 2 1/2 and they loved it, and continue to. A couple of weeks back (about two years on from their first viewing) they told me "I understand why it makes you sad but it's a happy sad..." 😭

Not to nit-pick, but Burton's 'Batman' was 1989, Gilliam's 'Brazil' was 1985 ....

Space Precinct was one of many Gerry Anderson productions, and that's a name that definitely deserves credit for his model work; Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, plus the live action shows UFO and Space 1999 all showcased his expertise and imagination with miniatures.

I showed my teen boys the original "Top Gun" - their response? "So cheesy, Dad!" I showed them "Rocky IV" - their response? "Propaganda." Actually ... they're right!

If someone sat next to you at a bus stop and started describing the plot to The Thing you'd be like "I gotta get outta here..." 🤣🤣🤣

Everyone tells me the self-repair scene in The Terminator when he's removing his damaged eye looks terrible but I love that effect. I saw that movie when I was 7 and it blew me away. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

Hey, I was 10 years old the first time I saw The Thing and I turned out fine! And let's not forget the chest crack/head spider scene culminates with David Clennon's perfectly delivered "You've gotta be kidding me."

I find it interesting that just about all of us that were film projectionists ultimately went into film and film related occupations. Animation is perhaps the purest form of filmmaking, in my opinion.

Love it. Parenting isn't all sunshine and lollipops, but these kinds of moments are priceless.

The scene in Poltergeist where one character peels his face off bit by bit with the maggots still gets me every time!!!!!

My son, 19 yo now, has been fed many kinds of movies, music and art alike. My goal was to let him experience a lot to learn to enjoy a variety of creativity. We still watch quite some movies together. I asked him whether he does this for pity of his father or because he likes it too. He loves it he told me, though when he watches a movie with his friends he notices that he's clearly harder to bribe with CGI effects.

I was wondering if Adam has ever met Terry Gilliam. It seems like a wonderful meeting of the minds and oh to be a fly on the wall for that.

Alien is my all-time favorite sci-fi / hoirror movie...followed closely by the thing...stay safe Adam...and thanks for the autographed picture!

"Brazil" is one of my top three movies of all time. I have watched it probably 30 times and I still find something new every time. It and "Time Bandits" have an amazing density of detail and imagination by Terry Gilliam and his crew. I truly love those movies. I worked at a movie theater and drive-in theater in my teens through college and had the privilege to see some classic movies before they actually opened, at midnight screenings to "make sure there weren't any problems with the print". Die Hard, Batman, Batman Returns, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction. It was fantastic to see them without having any idea what to expect. That said, I also saw the endings of many, many movies before I saw the rest of the movies before I saw the full movie and spoilers really don't bother me. It's not about what happens in the end, it's how it happens that matters and the journey to get there.

Totally agree with your opinions on the movies you mentioned. Brazil is fantastic. Gilliam has such a unique visual style that works perfectly for the future/retro setting. I'd often wondered about those flying sequences, so thanks for explaining that. What I love about Dracula, is that it's set 100 years previously, and Coppola is using techniques from early cinema to evoke the period. There's some CGI, but the best, and scariest, scene for me, is after Dracula has transformed into a wolf. You get this POV shot of him running up some steps, and the frame-rate keeps changing. An awesome "'camera trick".