{"id":42557,"date":"2014-06-12T23:54:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T05:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/the-greatest-practical-fx-ever.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T07:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:32:24","slug":"the-greatest-practical-fx-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/the-greatest-practical-fx-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Practical FX Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I&#39;m sure everyone could probably come up with some alternatives (esp. since &quot;practical FX&quot; means &quot;anything that isn&#39;t CGI&quot;), but I think all the candidates here are strong ones, from beginning to end.<\/p>\n<p>The only two movies off-hand I&#39;d add to this list are <i>Silent Running<\/i> and <i>Aliens.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115199064706997479815\" oid=\"115199064706997479815\">James D.<\/a><\/span>, via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blastr.com\/2014-6-12\/video-thing-star-wars-8-more-all-time-great-practical-fx-flick\">http:\/\/www.blastr.com\/2014-6-12\/video-thing-star-wars-8-more-all-time-great-practical-fx-flick<\/a>)\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NEAihk8QaVc' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dQcjK3DhmT8' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m sure everyone could probably come up with some alternatives (esp. since &quot;practical FX&quot; means &quot;anything that isn&#39;t CGI&quot;), but I think all the candidates here are strong ones, from beginning to end. The only two movies off-hand I&#39;d add to this list are Silent Running and Aliens. (h\/t +James D., via\u00a0http:\/\/www.blastr.com\/2014-6-12\/video-thing-star-wars-8-more-all-time-great-practical-fx-flick)\ufeff View this post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/the-greatest-practical-fx-ever.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Greatest Practical FX Ever&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48659,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/terminator-genisys-slick-but-does-it-have-anything-new-to-say.html","url_meta":{"origin":42557,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Terminator Genisys&quot; &#8211; slick, but does it have anything new to say","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Dec-14 6:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's hard to judge a movie by its trailer. 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