@p Ironically Oppenheimer was 90% practical effects, just like the eighties used to make.
Terminators were also Stan Winston, Total Recall was Rob Bottin for the creatures / makeup effects and ILM for matte shots, Alien was H.R. Giger himself working on the creatures with a technical crew and Brian Johnson of Space: 1999 fame for the models, and most of Romero's later films were Tom Savini who you may recall as Sex Machine in From Dusk Til Dawn.
@p That's also why the sound effects are so much more powerful in the original Star Wars, or any 70s or 80s film. The artists would effectively perform the sounds, banging on high tension tower support lines, moving a microphone around a defective TV monitor, and recording the walrus at the zoo.
That's Star Wars blaster bolts, lightsabers and Chewbacca respectively.
@p The top guys are very aware of this problem, and the rule is to do as much with practical effects (props, animatronics, sets, makeup) as possible. This also gives the FX artists a baseline.
Remember, most of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are full size Stan Winston puppets.
@p Yeah, it's likely that the ILM guys who did ST:TNG were misled by the legend of the glitter and so replicated that look. That's why their effect doesn't have the churning turbulent quality of the original.
Ironically it was Richard Edlund, an ILM founder, who did that effect AND designed the Star Trek title typeface, but by 1987 he had left the company to found Boss Films (which did Ghostbusters' effects) so he wasn't around to set them straight.
@p The original transporter effect for Star Trek was done by filming Alka Seltzer tablets churning away in water. Look closely and you can tell it's that, not the widely reported but false claim that it was gold glitter falling in a spotlight.
@alex I first learned that from George Pal's movie of The Time Machine, and I believe that is straight out of H.G. Wells book, as is the demo of the tiny time machine model.
@Shadowman311 Owen Benjamin took his millions in Hollywood money he made being a stooge of the jews on various minor films and TV shows (if you're IN all Hollywood work pays ridiculous amounts of money because careers are short and you only work a few months of the year) and ran away to a multimillion dollar redoubt where he LARPs as a farmer and livestreams to his cult followers who think he proves you don't need the pig system, man!
@alex Xerox PARC invented modern computers, Apple perfected them and Gates licensed / stole those ideas for his shitty version - but it was much cheaper than Apple's, so here we are.
Third place belongs to Disney’s The Marvels with a second Friday of $2.8M (ouch, -87%) and second weekend forecast of $9.7M, -79% –the biggest second weekend drop ever for an MCU title, and a running total of $64.5M by EOD Sunday.