When bored, watching a movie full of visual enjoyment can't be more appropriate. This time will take stock of 10 visually pleasing special effects blockbusters, 10 can not cover all, space is limited, in the upcoming holiday, you may wish to revisit.
1. District 9
Douban score: 8.3
Reason for recommendation: Editing, performance, and rhythm are all controlled quite precisely.
Synopsis: In 1990, a huge spaceship appeared above the earth, and people were panicked but extremely curious. After a period of intense waiting, the alien spacecraft never moved. Humans finally approached it cautiously and forced their way into the cabin, only to find countless aliens. They describe them as ugly, shrimp-like, and in extremely poor health and weakness. It turned out to be a group of refugees from aliens who were eventually taken in by Earthlings and isolated in an area of Johannesburg, South Africa, called "District Nine". After 20 years of breeding, the number of alien refugees has expanded to as many as 1.8 million, and there are constant conflicts with the surrounding humans, and more and more humans are calling for the "prawns" to be driven out of the earth. After consultation, the MNU (League of Nations) decided to relocate alien refugees to more remote areas. MNU's Alien Affairs agent, Vikus (Sharlto Copley), specializes in relocation work. Wikus was arrogant and casual during the mobilization process, and clashed frequently with the local population. Eventually, he pays for his actions, infected by the alien's mysterious fluid, and Wikus slowly transforms into the form of an alien...
2. Super Battleship
Douban score: 6.6
Reason for recommendation: A boon for popcorn movie lovers.
Synopsis: NASA discovered an extrasolar terrestrial planet in 2005 and judged that there might be intelligent life on it. In order to be able to contact alien intelligent creatures, NASA launched the "Lighthouse Program" to open a deep-space communication array base in Hawaii to send high-power signals to it for testing. A few years later, the alien spacecraft arrived unexpectedly. The Pacific Joint Naval Exercise Fleet in Hawaii was ordered to make contact. The guided-missile destroyer of the leading navy, Lieutenant Alex (Taylor Kitsch), along with two other warships, was assigned to contact the alien ships as reconnaissance squads. However, they were attacked and suffered heavy losses. Due to the shields deployed by the alien ships, the other ships of the combined fleet could not provide support and had to rely on their own. In the end, all three modern ships were destroyed. With no ships available, but having to destroy the alien-occupied communications station, the USS Missouri, which had been converted into a maritime museum, had to be used for a final attack. World War II-era ace battleship vs. alien high-tech ships, who can win? What is the fate of the earth?
3. "Tron: Battle Chronicles"
Douban score: 6.7
Reason for recommendation: The 3D picture sound effect soundtrack is endlessly wonderful.
Synopsis: In the 1980s, electronic software genius Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) founded Incom to take humanity into a whole new era. However, shortly after the beginning of the glorious era, Kevin mysteriously disappeared. After this, Kevin's young son Sam (Garnett Hedland) inherits his father's position, and the actual work is run by other staff members. Smart and adventurous, Sam often gets into trouble for Yingkang's top brass. On this day, he learned that a message from his father came from a long-abandoned studio. Sam went to investigate, only to enter a fully digital virtual world. The ruler of this world, Crewe (Jeff Bridges), has the same appearance as his father, but is ambitious and evil. Sam is forced to get involved in a war of electronic supremacy fraught with intrigue...
4. Inception
Douban score: 9.3
Recommended reason: The visuals are flawless.
Synopsis: Domu Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and colleagues Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Nash (Lucas Haas) are used by Saito after failing in a dream-stealing operation against Japanese energy tycoon Saito (Ken Watanabe). Saito threatens to induce Cobb, who is wanted and exiled abroad, to help him break up his rival company, taking extreme measures to plant in the deep subconscious of his only heir, Robert Fisher (Chirion Murphy), the idea of abandoning the family company and becoming independent. In order to return to the United States, Cobb secretly turns to his father-in-law Miles (Michael Kane), and recruits young dream designer Ariardney (Alan Peggy), dream actor Ames (Tom Hardy) and pharmacist Joseph (Delip Law) to join the action. In the layers of progressive dreams, Cobb must not only rebel against the subconscious instincts of Payhill, but also face the destruction of his deceased wife Mel (Marion Godia), which is far more dangerous than expected...
5. Guardians of the Galaxy
Douban score: 8.1
Recommended reason: Classic Marvel, special effects professional household.
Synopsis: Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) is an Earthling who was abducted into outer space from an early age, and has become the ultimate cultivated by his righteous father Courage (Michael Luke), calling himself Star Lord. During an operation, he steals a mysterious sphere and becomes the target of the kidnapping targets of bounty hunter Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper), Tree Groot (voiced by Van Diesel), and the mysterious Kamora (Zoe Soldana) is also bound to the mysterious sphere. After a ridiculous encounter, Star-Lord is forced to form a squad with these three people, as well as the vengeful "Destroyer" Drax (Dave Batista) to escape the "accuser" Ronan (Lee Pace). However, this mysterious sphere has infinite power, and the squad must unite against Ronan in order to save the entire galaxy, and the Guardians of the Galaxy are born.
6. "Independence Day"
Why: 69th Academy Awards For Best Visual Effects.
Synopsis: On July 2, a certain year in the future, surveillance stations across the United States found a huge spaceship with a diameter of hundreds of miles approaching Earth. The radio signals emitted by the spacecraft interfered with the signals of Earth's communication satellites, and released a number of sub-spacecraft with a diameter of 15 miles to fly over major cities on Earth. Alien spacecraft enemies and friends are unknown, and people are caught in panic and confusion. Computer engineer David (Jeff Goldblam) deciphers the radio signals sent by the aliens, which are actually countdown signals for the attack, and he manages to notify his ex-wife, connie, the president's assistant, but it is too late, and on July 3, the alien spacecraft begins to attack the earth, and human civilization is instantly hit and disaster. The president (Bill Pullman) and the others evacuate to the military base and direct the air force to fight back, but it is like hitting a pebble, it has no effect, the military base is destroyed, and only the pilot Steven (Will Smith) manages to lure an alien combat airship to crash. The survivors have fled to a secret military base, where scientists have been working on an alien airship that crashed more than 50 years ago, working to find a way to deal with aliens, where humanity's last hope is...
7. The Matrix
Douban score: 9.1
Reason for recommendation: A science fiction blockbuster with rich philosophy.
Synopsis: In the near future, cyber hacker Neo (Kinu Levis) becomes suspicious of this seemingly normal real world. He meets the hacker Trinity (Kelly Ann Moss) and meets morphine, the leader of the hacking order, Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburn). Morpheus tells him that the real world is actually controlled by a computer artificial intelligence system called "Mother", people are like animals they raise, without freedom and thought, and Neo is the savior who can save mankind. However, the road to salvation is never smooth, where is the real world? How can you beat those Superman-like secret agents? Is Neo the hope of mankind? This is the Empire of Hackers, programs and codes that welcome everyone.
8. Avatar
Douban score: 8.8
Reason for recommendation: 3D technology shooting, a total of 500 million US dollars to produce and distribute, is the most expensive work in the history of cinema. The film won three awards at the 82nd Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction.
Synopsis: Jack Sally (Sam Worthington), a former naval warrior wounded and paralyzed during the battle, decides to come to Pandora's planet on behalf of his dead siblings to manipulate Dr. Grace (Sigour) to create an "Avatar" hybrid creature created by combining human genes with the genes of the local Nami tribe. Jack's goal was to infiltrate the Nami tribe and diplomatically persuade them to voluntarily leave their homes where they had lived for generations, so that SecFor could cut down the area's virgin forests and mine the expensive "unobtainable" mines underground. While exploring Pandora's star, Jack meets Natiri (Zoe Saldana), the princess of the Nami tribe, and learns her Na'vi's survival skills and attitude towards nature. Meanwhile, SecFor's manager and military representative Colonel Miles (Steven Long) gradually loses patience and decides to resort to force to drive out the Na'vi...
9、《2012》
Douban score: 7.9
Reason for recommendation: The special effects are unparalleled.
Synopsis: The solar movement is abnormal, the energy balance system inside the earth is facing collapse, the Mayan prophecy is about to be fulfilled, and mankind will suffer a catastrophe. Governments have banded together to secretly build arks in hopes of escaping the catastrophe. Jackson (John Cusack), who makes a living writing science fiction, has a series of strange events while taking his kids to Yellowstone For the weekend, and meets a nervous Charlie (Woody Harrison), who tells him that the end of the world is coming. With volcanic eruptions, powerful earthquakes, and tsunamis, Jackson led his family in a temporary rented plane to storm the city over the city, instantly shrouded in the haze of death, and began to search for what Charlie said was the ark that governments were secretly building together. At the stake, some great ghosts will stand out, while some selfish minds will be invisible, and when thousands of beings come to the Ark's manufacturing base by various means, the Ark's limited capacity will cause unprecedented panic. In the end, the only people left survived with mutual love and respect for life.
10. "The Day After Tomorrow"
Recommended reason: the visual impact is very strong, the scene is shocking.
Synopsis: American climatologist Jack (Dennis Quaid) believes that the greenhouse effect is causing a catastrophe on earth, and the melting of Arctic glaciers will bring the earth back to the catastrophe of the ice age. His reminder didn't get the attention of the U.S. authorities, and it was too late: hurricanes, hail, floods, melting icebergs, extreme cold, a series of earth upheavals that triggered an irreparable catastrophe. The U.S. government organized the movement of people at 30 degrees north latitude around the equator, and the scene was chaotic. To make matters worse, Jack's son is trapped in a Manhattan library, burning books to keep his temperature on fire. How can we escape this catastrophe? When will the icy earth warm up?