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Not as old as some mentioned, but I love Gondry's use of practical effects in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Also want to drop in Fx: Murder by Illusion, just 'cause I loved the movie when I first saw it many decades ago...
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The Thing. Also, I recently went back and rewatched some of my favorite old Jackie Chan movies from his early years and MAN are they still so much fun.
Jackie Chan is willing to be sawn in half rather than use CGI to appear to be sawn in half.
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The Thing (J Carpenter version) is the best SFX movie ever, imo, and holds up incredibly well. The original Dracula didn't need anything fancy. And for the best practical FX using camera angles and other filming tricks, any film by Buster Keaton is a masterpiece of cinema.
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The Thing. Effects hold up astonishingly well today.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy show from the 80s holds up surprisingly well
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Off the top of my head:
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Pan's Labyrinth (CGI augments excellent practical effects)
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Ghostbusters (1984)
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The Cell (CGI augments excellent set and costume design).
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The Abyss (1989)
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Interstellar (had to check if this was CGI).
With research: Speed and The Edge of Tomorrow are fun. Also, I am annoyed at myself that I forgot Aronofsky's the Fountain — a beautiful, painful film.
Practical scenes with mentioning:
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That one scene in Chinatown, "they lose their noses!"
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That one scene in Boogie Nights, "I'm a big bright shining star."
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That last arrow in Throne of Blood
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Lord of the Rings.
Would Aliens be acceptable here?.The practical effects were incredibly well done as were the matte paintings.
Going to add krull. This is another were less was more with special effects which makes it do much better than others of the time.
Gattaca
Kubriks 2001.
Batman (1989) and Batman Returns
Star Trek NGT era.
They did a lot practical, with prostetics and models and it's beautiful.
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Evil Dead 2
Cashback