Top 10 Movies of 2015 with the Best Special Effects

This list compiles the movies released in 2015 that featured the most breathtaking 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

    11. The Newcomers
  11. ?

    The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

  12. ?

    Deadpool

    13. The Contenders

  13. Bahubali

  14. 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.

  15. Cinderella (2015)

  16. The Walk

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

  17. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

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

  18. Tomorrowland

  19. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

  20. Everest

  21. Spectre

  22. Pan

  23. Crimson Peak

  24. Kingsman: The Secret Service

  25. Goosebumps

  26. Aashiqui 2

  27. Spy

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