10 Most Amazing Practical Movie Effects Of The 2010s

Mad Max 4 took a long, long time to get made, but when it finally arrived - in the shape of Fury Road - most people agreed it was worth the wait.

In order to sell the grim, post-apocalyptic wasteland these characters inhabited, director George Miller chose to do many of his movie's insane vehicle stunts for real, using CGI to enhance and nip/tuck these moments, rather than to build them.

So, when you see a motorbike driving up a ramp and launching itself over a big-rig truck, that's real. When you see a car being flipped over and propelled into a barrel roll, that's real. When you see dozens and dozens of crazy spiked vehicles driving across the desert, that's real too.

There were real explosions, real fireballs, and stuntmen really were swinging from long poles that were mounted onto the backs of cars. The list goes on and on.

In many ways, Fury Road was a renaissance for practical vehicle and stunt work, proving that even complex chase sequences and difficult shots involving cars could be done, and could be done convincingly.

The film was rightfully nominated for the Academy Award for visual effects, a category that's usually filled with CGI-covered blockbusters. That speaks volumes as to how fantastic Fury Road's effects work really was.