What 10 Great Movies Look Like Without Visual Effects

6. Mad Max: Fury Road

Though Mad Max: Fury Road gets a ton of cred from film fans for its emphasis on practical effects, the film's reliance on CGI is often underestimated - and that's precisely why it's so damn good.

George Miller isn't just a veteran action filmmaker, he's also got decades of experience working with complicated visual effects and animation, having directed Babe: Pig in the City and both Happy Feet movies.

This ensured he knew exactly when to implement pervasive VFX throughout the movie - and when not to - and for the most part the effects are extremely tough to pick out.

The big money shot of the movie, where a tanker explodes with Max (Tom Hardy) being catapulted across the screen, contains far more digital elements than are immediately obvious.

In fact, aside from the explosion itself and the tanker caught in the middle of it, every other vehicle and human element was composited in post-production - most obviously, Hardy himself.

Common sense tells us that Hardy wasn't really being swung from car to car while a cacophonous explosion detonated behind him, but given that the end result lacks any of the usual CGI giveaways - namely inconsistent source lighting - you'd be forgiven for assuming they did it for real.