28 Totally Rad Special Effects From ‘80s and ‘90s Movies

There’s a lot that you youngins can make fun of us out-of-touch fogies about. But after you see these top-notch effects from 30 or 40 years ago, you’ll see that “our day” wasn’t all that lame after all. If anything, because of the transition into the digital age, the effects were sometimes way worse in the 2000s. Lookin’ at you, Scorpion King. 

So refrain from the old-folk jokes for a few minutes to read this list. Then you can rip our Beanie Baby collection to shreds — just verbally though, please.

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