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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can yall just be nice when Mummy 4 comes out? Not the usual "everything sucks and my childhood is ruined"? Yes it won't be the same and no the actors deliver the same pizzazz as last time, but can we just try and see what it's got? Thanks.

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Danish metro is fully automated, so by the front window, a sticker of control buttons is placed, so the children can pretend they run the train. Adults like to make children think they are in control, because to the children this is a HUGE DEAL. This post is about Greenland.

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

People complain "trailers today reveal everything". I present the trailer for The Italian Job (2003) that reveals every single twist, plan, plot device, arc, all gimmicks, how they pull it off, the ending, even the payoff of who finally gets to punch who. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BS9...

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The Italian Job (2003) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The behind the scenes of some of the greatest CGI work ever made. Watch it from start to finish. (it's a disgrace) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Pv...

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The Revenant | 'Bear Attack - Behind the Scenes' | Official HD Featurette 2016

YouTube video by 20th Century Studios UK

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

IKEA hacks are so fascinating. Who knew picture frames could be used to fixate pictures to walls and that drawers secretly doubled as a form of extrudable storage that could contain items like cutlery. I can watch it for hours.

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today I got two awards for reaching 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. One is from Google and the other is made out of foam clay by my 10-year old

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Check out DNEG's list of 886 VFX artists creating all the CGI and compositing for the shots in #TheOdyssey that were not finished practically, in-camera. www.dneg.com/our-work/the...

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

For The Odyssey, Matt Damon was created with a puppet instead of relying on CGI

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Seeing all the DNEG CGI artists on Linkedin point to their name in the credits of The Odyssey after crunching on its CGI for months and then going to social media and seeing everyone say how it avoided CGI is something else. (actually it's not something else -- it's the same as always)

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Raise your hand if you think these two look identical

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

So the USA, leading with science, uniting the world, cooperating with allies against common threats and that stuff, yes?

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Independence Day Speech

ALT: Independence Day Speech

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is disappointing. You would think a low budget production would be more honest and down to earth, giving credit to the people who made their movie, but no. Listen to "Primate" (2026) dissing their own CGI by Outpost VFX. Video by @vsgro.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/@v_sgro/vide...

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May 2026 be the year this marketing strategy finally ends? I’m honestly tired of speaking on how lying about methodology is harmful for on set and post production crafts, and how we need to start bein...

TikTok video by Valen 🇪🇺🇻🇪💙💜💖

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Besides carrying our interstellar address, descriptions of our DNA and instructions on how to build a 1970'es record player, Voyager contains this photo to tell aliens what kind of people they are dealing with (there is no joke here, this is an actual photo on Voyager)

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Accurate. I love all things related to filmmaking, but every single post about older filmmaking is "DID YOU KNOW STANLEY KUBRICK TIED HIS SHOELACE WITHOUT CGI" and it's so exhausting. It's all movie magic, you can celebrate one without pitting it against another. www.youtube.com/shorts/qzuH0...

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How Disney invented the zoom shot before CGI exist

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995) was on my top 5 all time favorite movies back then. Now it's just gone. I don't own it on anything but VHS and I haven't heard anyone but myself talk about it for over 25 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-F3...

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The City of Lost Children (1995) Trailer | Ron Perlman | Daniel Emilfork

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The dangers of space, ranked by danger 1) going up into space 2) coming down from space 3) being in space

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

How did media literacy reach a low where any sight of any set is seen as "OMG REAAL SEEETS PRACTICAL FILMMAKING IS SO BACK". They never. Stopped. Buildings sets.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 03/04/2026

From 2018: "Every once in a while, Twitter is great. Like the time a bunch of film directors dunked hard on an ignorant VFX take."

Seth rogen Dude this is total bullshit. It's completely the directors fault often.
12:08 PM - 15 Nov 2017
Seth Rogen • @Sethrogen
Replying to @:
Vfx are tool like anything else, and if a director can't use it properly it's no different than being able to use the camera properly or direct actors properly.

Lexi Alexander Bad take my friend. VFX is so competitive, you'll be hard pressed to find a whole company that sucks still in business. Bad CGI means the director was a self-important dick or production asked for a castle while paying for a tent and demanded it be done in 24 hours on top of it.

Duncan jones I would go further and say the blame belongs with the director, the credit with the VFX house.

James Gunn @L "!.A good director oversees every single VFX shot, again & again. The director has as much say as anyone in the quality, the artistry, & the consistency between vendors. Along with editing a film, it is the primary job of a director in post on a VFX heavy film.

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Project Hail Mary used ZERO CGI for the glasses hanging from Ryan Gosling's ears and Sandra Hüller singing Karaoke, opting instead to rely on practical effects

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Having just watched Project Hail Mary (which is 100% perfect and amazing) I need more awesome sciency space stuff, so re-watching Ad Astra. It's phenomenally stupid, and endlessly awesome and fascinating. Every set piece is a masterpiece.

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Tars was built as a fantastic on-set puppet. AND, was 100% CGI in shots like this. Things are rarely one technique only. A practical effect on set does not mean "no CGI".

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

VFX breakdown rules are weird. MI7 pushed “practical” but released CGI breakdowns to get VFX Oscar and got nominated. MI8 had similar CGI but hid it to keep the “practical” angle and got ignored. Predator Badlands released breakdowns, but couldn’t show talent - so Elle Fanning is blurred.

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Tired of bad CGI? Let's look at the good stuff! Here are 4 tips from the VFX department about how to make good CGI. #1: Shoot as much as possible for real

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Tired of bad CGI? Let's look at the good stuff! Here are 4 tips from the VFX department about how to make good CGI. #1: Shoot as much as possible for real

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"I'm doing my part!"

A child soldier to replace the waves of dead infantrymen fighting the bugs in Starship Troopers.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 23/03/2026

the piece is worse than the headline and deeply misleads TO BE CLEAR: - in half the shots in which he appears, Rocky is computer graphics animation - Project Hail Mary used LED screens - Top Gun Maverick had all-CG jet sequences, the Dune films had all-CG sequences, Alien Romulus had all-CG aliens

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 23/03/2026

The discourse is still so bad. It's one thing when internet bozo film bros spread misinformation, but when the trades just say stupid stuff like this it's just so overwhelming and depressing. Fun fact: even those movies that you think "rely on 'CGI'" have gigantic practical effects work!

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Don't jump onto the "wow Hail Mary didn't use a lot of CGI". It's a lovely mix of great practical and CGI, and HALF of Rocky's performance is CGI, and the CGI interiors just used roto and greyscreens instead of greenscreens.

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is what "practical puppet" and "no green screen" means

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Hot take, electing the 0.00001% who wants to throw explosives on houses so people die when 99.99999% of earth's population just want to sit in their houses and not die is maybe long-term not ideal

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Not the US teaching Denmark about giving healthcare to sick people?

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Andy from Toy Story had his 6th birthday in 1995 which makes him 37 this year.

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

No, this "will not be the end of it" because literally nothing matters to these people as long as they have power, which you're going to need to take from them, because they're not giving it up.

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Next month is the 1-year anniversary of revealing battle plans to a reporter in a Signal chat and the last 11 months have been so crazy it's not even on a crazy shit top 20 anymore

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

So growing up I was like "being rich sounds nice" and now it's like OK being rich does THAT to you???

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Popping in Planet of the Apes tonight to see what the hype is about. Looks good.

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

"Why didn't they just" is a question that comes up a lot about the use of VFX. Film production is first and foremost logistics, budget and schedule, and producers and line producers have an endless list of reasons why they "didn't just". Read Todd's piece:

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The Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Guys I figured out the Gore Verbinsky nonsense. He just meant it was UNREAL

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