We can’t decide if the fact that co-stars in a summer blockbuster don’t even need to meet to film their scenes together nowadays is awesome of depressing. Despite your stance on how impoverished acting has become in the current era of spectacular visual effects, you’ve got to admit that our movies look more stunningly beautiful than they ever have. That would mostly to do with the pioneering work of technical wizards and visual artists who’ve been perfecting cinema’s illusions for over 100 years. The remarkable evolution of their work is the subject of this great vidsticle chronicling 109 Years of Visual Effects in Film. Although if you’re going to include crap like The Golden Compass and The Spiderwick Chronicles, why leave out something like Beowulf, or Sky Captain and the Wold of Tomorrow? We also included a couple especially egregious absences after the jump.

Blade Runner

And, since we’re talking about Ridley Scott…

Alien

(via Design You Trust)