Learn English: Meaning of Special Effects

I love the movie Lord of the Rings.

I like the terminator saga

I’ve recently watched Velvet Buzzsaw. The plot fascinated me because I also enjoy a good piece of contemporary art. It’s a satirical thriller with some bloody special effects. Was a bit creepy before bedtime.

I like romance and social movies. I think special effects will give movies a better fiction situation. I think more fiction or fable situation more viewers attraction a movie have.

Mansoor

I like real movies special effects are not good

Yes I do but this kind of movies are not my favorite!!

I think “The shape of water” was a good one!

@ julito,

Oh, now I’ve got it. For my friend’s cat a sofa, wallpapers, tapestries and carpets are cat scratchers ))).

P.S. Let’s return to our muttons (instead of cats). Otherwise we’ll soon forget what this lesson is about )))

@Tarita, we all know that cats are very naughty , they like to sharpen their nails against our best funiture ,thus ruining them . The partial solution could be to  buy a  ” cat scratcher”, they are made of fabrics . You may have a better idea if you go online and browse for cat scratchers ”.  hope that my info help.  bye.bye

@ julito, I don’t know what is that scratcher, my dictionary doesn’t contain that word :(

It seems like our cat has eclipsed famous actors’ fame. It’s because he is knitting, and many actors can’t do that :)

You can’t say the film with a knitting cat is straightforward!

@Tarita. why not a red carpet scratcher  ,Oscar will surely love it !!!

@ ola33, You may take either a red carpet or just a red cat litter :D

I suppose  the name of your cat is Oscar, after that famous American guy, isn’t it?

Action!

It’s a very interesting lesson and a topic for discussion. Tastes differ :)

straight forward or fantasyland movies, to my mind the most important is the story itself. The plot and the performance of the actors. I guess it’s even harder to be an actor in the full of special effects film as the actor has to work with smth he or she doesn’t see, touch and feel…but at the moment he or she has to show the emotions or actions the director put at this or that definite part of the movie.

I watched Interstellar and I felt bored and hardly could help sleeping…very long and very unrealistic. I love science fiction but this movie is quite specific to me – I didn’t get the idea of black holes which keep the time moments and u can get back to any moment of ur past, to change ur future and the things like that. And I don’t mention about the space traveling, time perception, living on the other planet  with limited food\water\oxigen supply…

I like “Starship troopers” and dspite it was released in late 90-s the special effects are awesome and still look real. Not like the “Terminator I” :))))

tar1ta :))  yes, now I will have a new look at my cat, He’s gonna be a movie star! :)) Red carpet for him!:))

Narnia : childisly but wonderful fairytale..its so nice it has happy ending) 

Avatar : journey in people’s dreams to fantastic land and blue people country :) 

Jurassic Park : especially part I was so good ,to see creatures ,living before millions years was unbelievable..

Life of Pi  : story of a tiger and a boy in a boat ,in the huge ocean :)

from Stars wars to Matrix, from Avatar to Lord of Rings ,I like special effects on the movies ..maybe its far away from real life and real stories but sometimes we need to see  different things,creatures and places :) 

I cannot say I prefer raditional ones or the ones with special effects. It depends. Sometimes special effects make the movie more realistic, sometimes unrealistic. It depends on how they use it.

For me, the best movie with special effects is Jurassic Park. Dinosaurs were really ealistic in that move. In three of them. But there is an upcoming movie “Jurassic World” and I was really very excited to see this movie till I read speacial effects made dinosaurs look unrealistic in that movie. 

@ ola33, to judge by your avatar, your cat is starring in some action movie with special effects :D

So let’s call your film… “Avatar”.