Worst Special Effects?

Mr E

Have you ever watched a movie and thought that the special effects were awful? I'm not talking about dodgy B-Movies from the 50s and 60s. I'm talking about movies in the last 10 years.

I was watching Air Force One last night on RTE. The scene at the end where the plane crashes and cartwheels across the ocean looks absolutely awful.

And who can forget the surfing scene in the last Bond movie?

Post your worst special effects here!

- Dave.

Rabies

The League of Extraordinary (sp?) Gentlemen.... terrible special effects

Manach

Godzilla - being chased by the attack helicopters in NYC, very poorly done.

smiaras

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ObeyGiant

Spawn.
They spent all their effects budget on making the cloak look amazing, so when it came time to do a CG Devil, they just decided to let someone loose with Deluxe Paint 3.

lodgepole

All the special effects in Buffalo Soldiers. I understand it was a relatively low budget film, but that's no excuse. They were terrible.

I remember that Airforce One special effect when it first came out... Everyone thought it was amazing.

Tazzle

Worst special effects in a movie ever has to go to the last James Bond movie where Pierce Brosnan is surfing the ice with the parachute, it was terrible, awful, SHÍT

Mossy Monk

i thought in Spiderman when he was jumping from building to building looked terrible

Kalina

I was watching Air Force One last night and the scene where Air Force One went into the sea was poorly done. They tried to make it look too spectacular and it ended up looking a bit animated.

Sleipnir

Jaws has to win.
Not the first one, the one with Dennis Quaid and the "underwater city"

There's this bit where it's supposed to look like the shark is swimming towards the control room and it looks like they just zoom in on this cardboard cutout.
Absolutely awful.

Senor_Fudge

ya id have to agree with under siege two it was absolute unrealistic ****e

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by Sleipnir
Not the first one, the one with Dennis Quaid and the "underwater city"

You mean Seaworld?

Stark

Originally posted by Rabies
The League of Extraordinary (sp?) Gentlemen.... terrible special effects

Dunno, I thought it retained the feel of the comic book drawings while being live-action.

Sleipnir

Originally posted by ObeyGiant
You mean Seaworld?

Yeah something like that but it had big shark innit.
And Dennis Quaid.
And it was a movie.
Not real.

patch

LoL......I think it's Jaws 3D, Micheal Caine is in it too. Nobody has ever seen it, when Micheal Caine was interviewed about it a couple of years ago, he had never seen it either!

Sleipnir

That's the one! Unbelieveably brutal.

There was also the Bruce Lee movie (the one where he died half way through) where they decided to keep going on the movie.

There was this bit where they had a shot of 'Bruce Lee's' reflection in a mirror.
But seeing as they didn't have his face anymore, they stuck a picture of Lee's face onto the mirror and had a guy sit so that the picture was superimposed over this guy's head in the reflection.
You could see the body moving but the face stayed in the same position!!!!!

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by patch
LoL......I think it's Jaws 3D, Micheal Caine is in it too. Nobody has ever seen it, when Micheal Caine was interviewed about it a couple of years ago, he had never seen it either!

You're half-right.
It is Jaws3D, but Michael Caine was in Jaws 4, which is set in Australia.

The only 3D film worth its salt is Spy Kids 3D.

bizmark

The League of Extraordinary (sp?) Gentlemen.... terrible special effects

I think the style suited that film reminded me of Final fantsy cgi ....Special the sub

mike65

Logans Run, it cost nearly as much as Star Wars but you'd never guess!

Mike.

sceptre

Originally posted by patch
LoL......I think it's Jaws 3D, Micheal Caine is in it too. Nobody has ever seen it, when Micheal Caine was interviewed about it a couple of years ago, he had never seen it either!

Jaws 4 like ObeyGiant said. And I've seen it, It was on one of the English language Japanese stations when I was over there. Awful crud. RTE showed Jaws 3(dee!) about twelve years back. Terrible stuff as well but not as bad as the bit where the shark gets killed in 4.

I'll add the bit in Waterworld where they go up in the balloon. When I saw it in the cinema I remember thinking that that was where they finally ran out of cash.

I can forgive Logan's Run. Jenny Agutter looks nice in it. The crap robot thing does leave something to be desired though.

AngelofFire

Spacetruckers-absolutely cringeworthy

mike65

Originally posted by sceptre

I can forgive Logan's Run. Jenny Agutter looks nice in it.

For sceptre (and me)



ahhhh, sigh.

Mike.

Pepe LeFrits

Originally posted by Tazzle
Worst special effects in a movie ever has to go to the last James Bond movie where Pierce Brosnan is surfing the ice with the parachute, it was terrible, awful, SHÍT

I agree. Also in the same film at the beginning when Bond is fighting the bad guy on the speeding hovercraft... blue screen ahoy! absolutely terrible.

Franky Boy

spy kids 3D was crap.

Venom

Aye the last bond movie had some bad effects all right but the Ice scene was awful. This was the worst special effect Iv ever seen. No excuse for it.

Ebony

Originally posted by ObeyGiant
Spawn.
They spent all their effects budget on making the cloak look amazing, so when it came time to do a CG Devil, they just decided to let someone loose with Deluxe Paint 3.

oh my god that is so true couldnt have said better my self

Guy:Incognito

Triple x. every stunt and se in it. Especially the "rocket launcher" near the end, it a quite thinnly disguised sony camcorder(which isnt even switched on wen hes looking at the fold out screen)

Ebony

anaconda
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
i actually heard a fan ask jlo if that snake/doorstop was scary to work with!
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
in fairness she kept a straight face when she said no
he he!:p

Hecate

At least Logan's run had a decent enough story to make up for the poor effects....and Triple X was just cheesy more than anything else

The worst slip up I've seen in recent times was in Episode II during the battle between the insectoids and the Jedi. Watch when Anakin hops onto that rhino thing and the camera follows him, the rider is obviously computer generated and the rhino looks completly out of place with the background. And it happens again when padme going along in the chariot. In a film that was so top-heavy with very complex cgi scenes, its easy to see how the old quality control missed that one.

slave1

matrix 2 - neo fighting the many agents
good god

Speedway

I remember the Air Force one plane crash scene alright.It's really terrible

How about in Deep Blue Sea - the one with LL Cool J (nuff said!) . It's the one where the sharks are in the enourmous offshore research facility. At one point a shark comes through a giant window, grabs LL CooL J (i think) and starts shaking him around. I swear i could nearly see the puppeteers hand coming out of the shark's rear while shaking a little Action Man figure around in his mouth. The CG is absolutely TERRIBLE.

How about this for a quality poster (NOT!) :


http://www.movie-page.com/1999/deepbluesea/dbs-poster1.jpg

ozmo

Originally posted by AngelofFire
Spacetruckers-absolutely cringeworthy

The final scene where there is a hospital. The camera starts at ground level
then pans up.
Its actually the Civic Offices in Dublin (front building to Salt and Pepper shakers)
- they painted on about 50 more floors.

I dont know if any more parts were shot in Dublin.

A bad FX's in a film that threw me cos rest of film was so outstanding was
"Master at arms" when they cut the rope to let the sailor get washed away - he loked so false on the blue screen wave.