Best movie with little or no special effects.

[SLy AsymMetrY]

How about The Seventh Seal? A little bit of make-up, costumes, and a Knight playing chess with Death. Iconic.

 

[Azaradel]

Halloween 2007 *-*

(well, at least I can't remember it having special effects, I was just awestruck over how brilliant they remade the quite frankly godawful original Halloween)

 

[sarahvait]

The original The Haunting. Black and white movie when effects were still basic. Pretty much all the "effects" in this movie are sounds; laughter, banging, footsteps, wind, etc. The one visual effect I can name (besides just camera angles) is the scene when the four main characters are locked in a room and the door starts swelling towards them like a balloon that's going to burst. Even with a movie that old, it looks pretty realistic, IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxJwJfUcwRM&feature=related

Still one of my favorite scary movies.

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

The Blair Witch Project was quite good considering the lack of special effects it had, and the same goes for 28 Days/Weeks Later.

 

[Tharwen]

'Les Choristes' (It's french and translates into 'The Chorus')

...though there is one bit where the doorbell rings, then the person who rang it walks up to the drive to the door a few seconds later, though I think that was a mistake...

 

[TheFacelessOne]

Star Trek!!!!!

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Airplane! (Seriously this time.)

 

[PurpleRain]

I'm still not sure if the thread is about CGI or just Special Effects. Because 28 Days/Weeks Later, Pans Labrynth, Slumdog Millionaire, Alien and about a good portion of them have so much Special Effects. Fantastic movies with great stories, which sort of proves SFX (got tired of writing it) can make films better.

Shaun of the dead!

This is massive on Special Effects, CGI too.

I like the modern CGI though. Sure, people can go nuts with it (Ie Micheal Bay) but it makes all those things we once couldn't do possible. I see nothing wrong with that. Opens new doors for wider story telling, imaginative designs and crations, amoung other things.

Sure, good CGI is a wonderful thing. But I'd rather have a spectacular story, with moderate CGI.
A lot of movies use CGI to cover up for the fact that the actual story is lacking, or just so awful its amazing that it ever made it into production to begin with.

But OT, Fantasia. Old style animation at its best.

Why compromise? Why not have both? CGI can be a way to tell a story. What if the story was to be set on the back of a snake flying through space, Special Effect are most definitly needed.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

How come noone has said "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" yet?

 

[Levziemuch]

...i immediately thought shawshank redemption also...

 

[Alberto GS lolcompany4u]

puppet master 1-8

 

[LowFatLoki]

How come no one has said Crash or Freedom Writers..?
Oh right, not that big of movies.

 

[sooperman]

I just saw "Princess bride" so i'm gonna go with that.

Right there bro

 

[Skeleon]

Evil Dead!

 

[SultanP]

Gotta go with "12 Angry Men" here. Old black and white movie from 1957 I think. Extremely captivating. Possibly one of my favorite movies of all time.

 

[justblues]

God enter the dragon all bruce and good camera work
Also both blues brothers and blues brothers 2000

 

[Abedeus]

Shaun of the dead!

No special effects at all.

But I'll go with Hot Fuzz. No special effects, everything either done by real weapons or human hands.

Maybe except for the burning house scene, that was nice. But that's I think the special effect barely possible in real life.

 

[ChocoFace]

Ong Bak. Tony Jaa has no need for wires, cgi or stunt doubles!

This and Monty Python's movies.

 

[matnatz]

Death Proof. |D

Yeah, Death Proof was bettter than Planet Terror by far and the Australian stunt woman in it was so incredibly attractive in so many ways .

Planet Terror on the other hand only had one special effect but it lasted for 2 hours.

Anyway, The Shawshank Redemption, Reservoir dogs, Pulp Fiction. There are loads, only summer block busters and genre films really use CGI. And I'm not much of a fan of summer block busters and genre films.