5 Movies You Can’t Believe Didn’t Use Visual Effects

You see that and you think “that just has be special effects!”. In most cases, you are right. In some cases, you can’t be more wrong!

Movies can be out right crazy! And you love them for that. They take you on a journey with them and you are lost in that delicious feeling, despairing the moment when this torrid affair will come to come to end. That is what most movies do.

Then there are some movies that redefine crazy. They take us on a journey that has action, adventure, thrill, suspense, drama and love in one package. In some of these movies, there are instances when you look at the screen and go, of course that is visual effects. Most of the time, you are obviously are right. You can’t be creating an earthquake to destroy a whole city just to make a movie. And then there are times, when you are far away from being right. Here we list out a few such moments when it actually wasn’t visual effects or VFX as we have come to call it.

Those tiny dinosaurs in Jurassic park? All human. Yup they did that.

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Christopher Nolan actually dropped the CIA plane that was attacked by Bane! He really did that, not kidding!

Spiderman – Yes he actually did swing from one building to another and yes Peter parker did catch Mary Jane’s lunch tray save the day. Toby McGuire actually had to shoot those scenes!

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Matrix – Apart from the guy who lands on the car, they shot the entire scene. Carnage on freeway included.

Daniel Craig as James Bond actually spent quite a bit of time with trains. He fought a bad guy on it and also watched another crash through a wall.

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And now you know too! Go be that annoying friend who tells people in the middle of the movie about how the visual effects were actually done. In this case, how they weren’t done.