Top Ten Movies of 2015 with the Best Special Effects

This list compiles the movies released in 2015 that featured the most breath-taking special effects.
The Top Ten
1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Considering it's a Star Wars film, it was bound to have good visuals. However, because it was made at a time when there could be better effects than when the original trilogy was made, in my opinion, this is the Star Wars film with the best special effects.

I really respect any film that uses practical effects most of the time and only uses CGI when it absolutely needs to. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a great example of a film that does that. Even when there is CGI, it's still well done.

The movie could have just been a series of random images and I still would have been amazed with it because the visuals are masterful.

2 Mad Max: Fury Road

Considering that the movie was primarily made using practical effects, it absolutely blows me away.

3 Furious 7

Digitally re-creating Paul Walker for the end scene should have won this movie the Best Visual Effects Oscar. It really deserved it. The fact that it didn't even get a nomination was a pretty big insult.

If it's almost impossible to tell when Paul Walker was actually playing the scene or not, they obviously did something right!

4 Jurassic World

Aside from 'Jurassic Park III,' each film in the series has brought the highest-possible-quality effects available at the time. Film number 4 did not disappoint.

There is nothing more badass than watching a T. Rex fight to the death with some raptors.

5 Avengers: Age of Ultron

When it comes to quality effects, look no further than Marvel Studios. You know they're going to bring their A-game (see what I did there?).

6 Terminator Genisys

The digital re-creation of the opening to 1984's 'The Terminator' is what earned this movie a spot on the list. You absolutely would not have been able to tell that the younger T-800 is CGI unless you had been informed of the fact prior to seeing it.

7 The Revenant

If you thought that they just merged bear footage in with Leo's performance footage, you're mistaken. That bear was CGI. Amazing, I know.

8 The Martian

You will believe you are watching a man trying to survive on Mars. Not for one second will you doubt your eyes.

I've seen the trailer, and it's enough to tell me this is the best movie I will watch.

9 Ant-Man
10 Pixels
The Contenders
11 Bahubali
12 Ex Machina

It won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects... somehow. The effects are brilliant, of course, but they're subtle. I definitely think it deserved the credit, but nonetheless, I am amazed that it beat out all these other films, many of which didn't even receive nominations.

13 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Awesome movie. Not as good as the book, but it is a fair visual.

14 Cinderella (2015)
15 The Walk

Watch this movie in 3-D and tell me it's not deserving of being here.

16 Tomorrowland
17 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
18 Terminator: Genesis
19 Everest
20 Spectre
21 Pan
22 Crimson Peak
23 Kingsman: The Secret Service
24 Goosebumps
25 Aashiqui 2
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