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MartinZ60	Worst Special Effect	Lead	[-]
Mar 30 05 1:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hello to all. My name is Martin Zimmerman, and this is my first post. What are the worst effects shots? Well, here are some of mine- 1. Reptilicus - The young couple on the beach, enjoying the air conditioned comfort of the studio, when up from the depths should arise.... 2. The Mysterians - I've always liked this one, but it does have that horrid matte shot of the soldier trying to escape the sinking tank. 3. King Kong(1976) - the shot of Kong falling off the World Trade Center - A bad idea gone wrong. 4. The Giant Claw - Pick any shot featuring that Muppet-like buzzard. 5. The Mighty Gorga - The plastic T-Rex. Wow. All The Best - MZ.
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The Wolf Person	Re: Worst Special Effect	#1	[-]
Mar 30 05 3:03 PM Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Welcome, Martin. I would say that the worst all-time special effect is Pamela Anderson.
taraco	Re: Worst Special Effect	#2	[-]
Mar 30 05 3:30 PM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think the worst effect is the giant see-through alien at the beginning of ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN, worse even than the Vegas rampage by the see-through AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN!! david 'I don't want to grow anymore!!'
TomWeaver999	Re: Worst Special Effect	#3	[-]
Mar 30 05 3:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	<< 5. The Mighty Gorga - The plastic T-Rex. Wow. << Drat. You named the one I was going to mention! The toy bats bobbing around on the end of strings in the KISS OF THE VAMPIRE finale made me laugh even as a kid.
David Riegler	Re: Worst Special Effect	#4	[-]
Mar 30 05 4:08 PM Banned User Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tom, they weren't even specially constructed for the film. They were bought at Woolworth's!
TomWeaver999	Re: Worst Special Effect	#5	[-]
Mar 30 05 5:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Good point, yes! I should draw the line at describing something as a "special effect" when what I'm looking at is something I could do. (I'm paraphrasing something Rudy Giuliani once said when asked about some crummy, questionable piece of "artwork": "If I could do it, it ain't art!")
Dave Sindelar	Re: Worst Special Effect	#6	[-]
Mar 30 05 5:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	One of the worst special effects I've seen - During ASSIGNMENT OUTER SPACE there's a sequence of a spaceship exploding. To produce this amazing effect, the movie cuts to a very short sequence of stock footage of a burning car. The problem is that the spaceship was in the dark and far reaches of outer space, while the car was obviously earthbound in the light of day. In short, I wasn't fooled. APE also features a shot of a live cow, followed by a shot of the titular creature stepping over an obviously plastic replica of the same. ***************** "I sleep now!"
Rakshasa	Re: Worst Special Effect	#7	[-]
Mar 30 05 6:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Great ones guys! Here's one: Jaws 3-D: The unbelievably PHONY shot of the superimposed miniature shark right before he crashes into the glass window. Looks like a stick puppet. Bonus: Jaws 2: The mechanical shark glides past the kids boat with it's mouth wide open, clearly displaying the pistons and pneumatic tubes in it's gullet!
Joe Karlosi	Re: Worst Special Effect	#8	[-]
Mar 30 05 6:39 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The giant female hand in ATTACk OF THE FIFTY FOOT WOMAN. The toy boat in the bathtub for DUNGEON OF HARROW. ------------------------------------ "It's MORE ... than a hobby!"
Bill Warren	Re: Worst Special Effect	#9	[-]
Mar 30 05 6:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Cheap movies are going to have cheap effects, of course. What I find dismaying are bad effects in major movies. In William Wyler's BEN-HUR, the battle at sea is simply atrocious. All the ships look exactly like what they are, small models in a big tank, and the fireballs are equally phony.
Joe Karlosi	Re: Worst Special Effect	#10	[-]
Mar 30 05 6:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm a big fan of BEN HUR, but the last time I looked at the film I paid even closer attention to the weak ship effects. They certainly were a little lacking, but they just never struck me as bad as they've been made out to be, IMO. ------------------------------------ "It's MORE ... than a hobby!"
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Tim Lucas VW	Re:	#11	[-]
Mar 30 05 8:49 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In the first season episodes of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, whenever the fights involve more than a punch or two, there's suddenly a different actor in the Superman suit. I never noticed this, even as a young adult, when watching the show on a small set, but with my current 53" screen, it's suddenly inconceivable to me that this stuff ever got past me. They don't even make an attempt to block the stuntman's face from view. I tend to notice this a lot now in fight scenes from older television programs. Even as a kid, I remember noticing that Adam West and Burt Ward used stuntmen on BATMAN.
Chesterbelloc	Re: Re:	#12	[-]
Mar 30 05 9:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Even as a kid, I remember noticing that Adam West and Burt Ward used stuntmen on BATMAN. Yup, Batman always got fatter, and Robin always aged about twenty years whenever a fight broke out. ;) I think some of the worst f/x are in SUPERMAN IV. Here's a sequel to three successful films that had the best flying scenes ever seen on screen to that point, but Superman looks like he's being pushed into the camera on a popsicle stick whenever he flies in IV(and that's when you can't see the wires!). All of the opticals and matte paintings are disastrous, too.
Jeff Mclachlan	The Worst Contemporary Effect I've Seen--	#13	[-]
Mar 31 05 3:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Has got to be that CGI Scorpion King at the end of The Mummy Returns. They could have just composited the Rocks' body onto the CGI scorpion and it would have looked fine, but they had to get fancy and try to do something ( photo-realistic CGI person) that probably won't be possible for another decade, if ever. Stupid. Also, the shot of Spider-Man climbing a wall to pursue his uncle Ben's killer in Spider-Man, and James Bond wind-surfing in Die Another Day, two bad shots in movies I otherwise really like.
Tim Lucas VW	Re:	#14	[-]
Mar 31 05 5:42 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The blood-barfing bat in SCARS OF DRACULA, anyone? Speaking of Hammer, as I see a number of their classic titles on DVD and HD television, I am surprised to see how shoddy the matte paintings underlying their main titles often were -- amateurish paintings of castles, that sort of thing.
Omega Man	Aerial AROUS	#15	[-]
Mar 31 05 10:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The exploding airliner in BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS is one that instantly springs to mind. The plane blows up... and pieces of the model are still hanging in midair by the strings! "Build coffins. That's all you'll need." www.eccentric-cinema.com
Joe Karlosi	Re: Aerial AROUS	#16	[-]
Mar 31 05 10:53 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Heh Heh -- that's a good one, Brian. How about the puppet bird of THE GIANT ClAW? ------------------------------------ "It's MORE ... than a hobby!"
Rakshasa	Re: Aerial AROUS	#17	[-]
Mar 31 05 2:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Giant Claw is mentioned in post #1 Mr. Karlosi. How about Unknown Island? They're looking at what is supposed to be an areal photograph of a T-Rex on the Unknown Island, but it's an obvious (and quite poorly done) crude HAND-DRAWN picture of what looks like a dinosaur stick figure! Jesus, it looks like they gave a first-grader a crayon and said "Here Timmy, draw us a dinosaur". Thank You, Doug
CSABadass	For The Sea Food Lover In You...	#18	[-]
Mar 31 05 7:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	How about the "giant Gargon" from Teenagers from Outer Space, which was likely boiled alive and eaten (along with some melted butter) by the cast after filming? Deo Vindice, Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed. -Mad Social Scientist & Freelance Writer -Moderator, The nGo Game Industry/Pro Wrestling Listserver "Look upon me! I'll show you the life of the mind!"--Charlie Meadows, in Barton Fink
drjkl	worst special effect	#19	[-]
Apr 1 05 12:28 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Reptilicus not only has the silliest floppy-muppet this side of Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent, but instead of spitting fire, he seems to vomit something that looks like it was drawn on the individual frames of film with magic marker when it comes out of his mouth, then looks like somebody tossed a scarf when it hits the ground. Supposedly it contained a "powerful acid".
LesDaniels	Re: worst special effect	#20	[-]
Apr 1 05 12:45 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I really like MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN, but that pathetic miniature of the burning mill certainly ends the film on a sour note.
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