I agree that productions that couldn't afford any better are too easy.

STAR WARS--Even at the time, the computer images of the Death Star plans looked like Pong outtakes.

EMPIRE STRIKES BACK--That asteroid worm thing is ridiculous.

RETURN OF THE JEDI--When Luke backs the shuttle out of the exploding Death Star what looks like some model parts smacking on the floor are supposed to represent debris--the scale is way off. For the climax of ROTJ in general the explosions have a particularly pasted-on look, especially the little explosions all over the Death Star before it explodes.

I gotta agree on the turning head in THE EXORCIST. I've been told "But it's an illusion like the mother appearing" but I don't buy it, and I don't buy the effect, which looks fake as Heck.

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM--This movie was a case of eating too much Halloween candy--during the mine car chase, I was getting very, very bored. Too many shots looked cartoony in this.

REVENGE OF THE SITH--The shots where Anakin or others are LEAPING about like a Tasmanian devil simply don't look real. I've always used the original STAR WARS as a guide for the look of these movies--the original had as close to a documentary look in the photography as you could get while keeping the colors vivid. The sword battle was very exciting even if it wasn't that athletic--you knew you were seeing two PEOPLE. EMPIRE was good because the moody, more fantastic setting gave license tfor SLIGHTLY more intense stunts. ROTJ was just stop-and-start boredom for the most part, but by the time of SITH, there are SO many swordfights it just gets repetitive and blurry. The use of animation to zip characters around the screen is so fake-looking.

DIE HARD is generally very good at using its effects cleverly (cutting from the miniature to the exterior sets so you're not even wondering if it's real or not), but the big explosion at the end has that pasted-on look in some of the shots. Not many, just a couple.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY--The only imperfect shots in this are the colored ones of what are obviously Earth locations during the end of the Ultimate Trip. I can excuse them because we're 'landing' and we can say to ourselves "Must be a planet," but everything else looks great, while these shots have me thinking "I can see how they did that."

THE TIME MACHINE--The miniatures are good in this, but the shots of the openings to underground going up during the climax look like a tabletop model.

THE MATRIX--Those squid things look like they're animated, which in itself is ok, but my brain picks the movement out as being 'different". I'm guessing they went with that look to make them look more mechanical, but the mind doesn't rationalize like that, in this case, at least.