Meteor : There's simply no excuse

There's simply no excuse

for special effects this crappy in a post Star Wars world!

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Even better, this was made the same year as "Alien".
Worlds apart in production value.

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Yes there is.

This was made in 1979, "Star Wars" quality special effects were not yet the norm throughout movies and to be honest, the special effects in "Alien" aren't all that good compared with "Star Wars" either.

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But this is quality that belongs in movies from late 50s, early 60s, tops.

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Do you have any examples Speedo?

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Examples of what? Movies from the 50s and 60s?

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Yes please Speedo!

And "Forbidden Planet" doesn't count as the FX shots are not really the same; no shots of ships flying around in space etc.

If you want to pick on a post-Star Wars or post-2001 film with shoddy FX, why not try "Dune"? (with a much bigger budget and released 5 years after "Meteor")

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..the special effects in "Alien" aren't all that good compared with "Star Wars" either.

I disagree, the effects in Alien are awesome and on par with Star Wars. Alien isn't an action adventure movie with laserbeam shootouts. The effects in Alien are subtle and effective.

I love both movies on there own merits.

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It's not just effects, miniature models, explosions, etc, that make a movie memorable, it's suspense, plot, events, and so on that work as well.

A mysterious large egg in a cave suddenly releasing a bug that attached itself to a man's face and placed an infant alien inside of him, none of this required explosions and fleeing crowds (unless you want to count the blowing up stomach on Hurt and the fleeing Cartwright)

Likewise, Star Wars was variations of robots, the wookie, as well as all the other aliens in the catina.

I'm watching Meteor now, and it's problem seems to be striving for what Spielberg would do; the cookie cutter predictions with a Siberian family, then the ski bunny and the Japanese family, along with endless chatter (in English and Russian) for the rest of the movie, and tiresome yelling between Landau and Malden under the pretense it is tension.

Wow, more talking.

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I actually liked Meteor. It was pretty entertaining for a disaster movie. The special effects are what kinda ruins it. Some effects work, like the Hong Kong scene and the very brief shot of the avalanche engulfing the church steeple. Most of them don't, especially the Siberian scene, the WTC shots and the space station at the beginning of the movie.

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i find this special effects much better and real than CGI
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