Posted on 07/13/2012 7:04:50 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Let's start out with the recognition of perhaps the WORST special effect ever seen in a movie was the flaming paper plate on a line passing itself off as a flying saucer in "Plan Nine From Outer Space." However, I recently saw a movie that might have had a special effect just as lame.
It was "Knights of the Round Table," starring Robert Taylor as Lancelot. Anyway, Lancelot, along with King Arthur and some allies were at a meeting at Stonehenge. The bad guys (Modred) suddenly decided to attack the Arthur crew. So Lancelot saves the day by pushing one of the Stonehenge rocks over to prevent the bad guys from getting to them while they made their escape. What made the scene especially ridiculous was that Lancelot really didn't even put much of an effort into shoving over that Stonehenge rock. And when the Stonehenge rock hit the ground, it was with the gentle thud of styrofoam rather than a crash of several tons worth of rock. Oh, and how could Stonehenge manage to stand all these years since from we saw in the movie just a 60 mph wind would have knocked those Stonehenge rocks to the ground?
I wonder if Robert Taylor or any of the other actors at the time objected to participating in such an incredibly lame special effect.
I recall an old 60’s Sci Fi with Jack Palance, where an I beam crashed down on his head and he blinked. I’m not positive, but I think it also bounced off. Plan 9 with it’s fiery paper plates, shower curtain cock pit and steps to a solid wall has got to me #1.
It’s hard to top:
“The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra”
A dedicated scientist, aided by his clueless wife, rolls up his shirt sleeves and tries to save the world from a radioactive monster, curious space aliens, an evil scientist and a crabby skeleton in this send-up of the best of the B movies of the 1950’s
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307109/
I must say I found it most facinating.
I'm going to have to pray extra tomorrow.
/johnny
Any Godzilla movie made by Toho. They were still awesome though.
Flight of the intruder. Six months after this state of the art special effects movie came out, we saw how lame its fake AA really was
Those aren’t special effects
The Giant Claw gets my vote.
I LOVE the Crawling Eye! The real version, not the MST3000 one.
Forrest Tucker was actually a pretty good actor.
Aieeeee! Not Zardoz!
Clash of Titans
The surreal imagery near the end of “2001” has not aged well.
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The rubber octopus in “The Atomic Monster” [the title, I believe] from the samedirector, Ed Woods, that did “Plan 9”.
The guy in the Gorilla suit and the space helmet with the TV antenna on it in the alien invasion movie shot in somebody’s yard.
Be sure to notice the left hand actioned 10-22s and Marlin semiautos when they reverse the film to make the shot look better.
I watched those magical rifle changes since the first season. Did you notice they have never shown an alligator actually getting shot by the boats? The guy aims, shuts his eyes, and water splashes. Every time. A hit to that bony head wouldn't make a splash at all.
The Crab monster in the Roger Corman atomic mutation movie that spoke with a French accent.
Hardware Wars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ymFxkFfIhU
Fifteen times? Huhh. Hopalong Cassidy had a 75-shot revolver. (LOL. My spellchecker can’t believe Hopalong Cassidy.)
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