{"id":346,"date":"2009-06-26T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/?p=346"},"modified":"2009-06-24T15:08:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T22:08:30","slug":"50-most-influential-visual-effects-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"50 most influential visual effects films"},"content":{"rendered":"

VES 50 most influential visual effects films<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One of my students asked for a list of visual effects films to look at during the break between quarters at school.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I directed him to the Visual Effects Society (VES) and their list of films.<\/p>\n

\u00a0http:\/\/www.visualeffectssociety.com\/documents\/ves50revelfin.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0This was their list on May 10, 2007.\u00a0 We have had a few new VFX films since ’07.\u00a0 Do you agree with this list?\u00a0\u00a0 If not, what are your choices?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0THE VES 50 (Bold and Italics indicates a tie score)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Star Wars (1977)<\/p>\n

2. Blade Runner (1982)<\/p>\n

3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

3. The Matrix (1999)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Jurassic Park (1993)<\/p>\n

6. Tron (1982)<\/p>\n

7. King Kong (1933)<\/p>\n

8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)<\/p>\n

9. Alien (1979)<\/p>\n

10. The Abyss (1989)<\/p>\n

11. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)<\/p>\n

12. Metropolis (1927)<\/p>\n

13. A Trip to the Moon (1902)<\/p>\n

14. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)<\/p>\n

15. The Wizard of Oz (1939)<\/p>\n

16. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)<\/p>\n

17. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)<\/p>\n

18. Titanic (1997)<\/p>\n

19. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)<\/p>\n

20. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

20. E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

22. Toy Story (1995)<\/p>\n

23. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)<\/p>\n

24. The Ten Commandments (1956)<\/p>\n

25. The War of the Worlds (1953)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

25. Forrest Gump (1994)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

25. Citizen Kane (1941)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

25 The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

25. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

30. The Terminator (1984)<\/p>\n

31. Aliens (1986)<\/p>\n

32. Mary Poppins (1964)<\/p>\n

33. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)<\/p>\n

34. Forbidden Planet (1956)<\/p>\n

35. Babe (1995)<\/p>\n

36. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

36. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

38. King Kong (2005)<\/p>\n

39. Planet of the Apes (1968)<\/p>\n

40. Fantastic Voyage (1966)<\/p>\n

41. Jaws (1975)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

41. Ghostbusters (1984)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

43. Sin City (2005)<\/p>\n

44. Superman: The Movie (1978)<\/p>\n

45. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)<\/p>\n

46. The Lost World (1925)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

46. Return of the Jedi (1983)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

48. What Dreams May Come (1998)<\/p>\n

49. An American Werewolf in London (1981)<\/p>\n

50. Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1958)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

50. The Fifth Element (1997)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>The Visual Effects Society<\/em><\/a> \/ \u00a9 Copyright 2009<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VES 50 most influential visual effects films \u00a0 One of my students asked for a list of visual effects films to look at during the break between quarters at school.\u00a0\u00a0 I directed him to the Visual Effects Society (VES) and their list of films. \u00a0http:\/\/www.visualeffectssociety.com\/documents\/ves50revelfin.pdf \u00a0This was their list on May 10, 2007.\u00a0 We have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,34],"tags":[9,15,45,78],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-film-vfx-history","category-visual-effects-techniques","tag-film-history","tag-students","tag-ves","tag-visual-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}