How A Low Budget Sci-Fi Movie Revolutionized Visual Effects



Ex Machina was a low budget sci-fi movie with ambitions that changed an industry. The visual storytelling within Ex Machina was unlike anything audiences had seen before, and that was due to a world class VFX team and a director willing to take a chance. The painstaking production of Ex Machina may have been low budget, but you can’t see it in the final product.

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31 thoughts on “How A Low Budget Sci-Fi Movie Revolutionized Visual Effects”

  1. Resident Evil came out earlier the same year as 28 Days later. It is hard to say which one brought back the zombie genre. But when someone mentions zombie movies, Resident, not 28 Days would be the one that comes to mind first. Dredd was underrated. It should have been better known.

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  2. Just watched the video. Can you PLEASE stop getting simple facts wrong? Garland's first collaboration with Boyle was The Beach, albeit only in the sense of his book being adapted. It baffles me how such info gets neglected when the name even gets brought up.

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  3. this is why we cant no do anything useful in the world, as the movie shows, we overcomplicate things and become destructive, and lost in thought can not decide on a good course of action.

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  4. I think the term you wanted is "speculative fiction". The film 'Ex Machina' is speculative fiction. What we have called "science fiction" for so long came out of "speculative fiction" which asks questions for the audience to take away with them, and questions not necessarily answered by the work, either.

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  5. Speaking as a person with a background in Computer Science, I think this is one of the very few that got artificial intelligence or more accurately artificial sentience right. I won't spoil the ending here for anyone who has not seen it, but that ending was spot on.

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  6. I still don't see how this revolutionized visual effects. Something that had been used for years and years. CGI to subtly enhance reality was everywhere.

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  7. This movie is utterly terrifying. If you take it for what it really is. The fact that someone could get so involved and truly fall in love with a robot because the robot seems that real. It makes you wonder how far and when will AI eventually take us over.

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