Star Wars Opening Battle Voted Best Ever Special Effect
Posted By Britany on January 9, 2005
IrelandOn-Line reports that the opening battle of "Star Wars: A New Hope" has been voted the greatest ever special effect in a poll conducted by SFX magazine. Here's an extract:
The opening scene from Star Wars has been voted the best special effect in cinema history. The first glimpse of the colossal Imperial Star Destroyer still has film fans awe-struck nearly 30 years after it was first seen.
In a galaxy far, far away, a rebel ship races into the distance pursued by blasts of gun fire. Then its pursuer comes into view ? a ship so vast that it took moviegoers? breath away when the film first hit the big screen.
It topped a poll conducted by SFX magazine to find the greatest ever special effect.
?Star Wars winning the best special effects sequence ever shows just how significant the film is to movie fans,? said SFX editor Dave Golder.
?Even now, nothing beats the feeling you get when you see this huge flying spaceship coming across the screen ? which is breathtakingly enormous. ?It was the Big Bang of modern special effects, redefining the way space ships should look on the big screen.?
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