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.
There was a ‘shop job of that picture that had Bill and Hillary’s heads interchanged. Haven’t seen it for years, and I foolishly didn’t save a copy. It doesn’t seem to exist any more on the Internets.
Virtually anything shown on SyFy Channel. They average a buck-sixty on SFX, I’m convinced.
Superman IV - The Quest for Peace. Worst FX of all time, possibly worst movie of all time.
The whole mechanics of Superman flying is ridiculous. What does he do? He jumps up, stretches his arms out, and supposedly this allows him to fly. Yes, yes, I realize we're talking about a comic book hero, but the idea that Superman simply jumps in the air, spreads his arms out, and flies strikes me as ludicrous.
I first saw Rodan in a small movie theater when I was seven years old back in the fifties. I had nightmares for two years after seeing the flick. I watched it again thirty years later on tv and couldn't stop laughing at the cheesy special effects.
Special awards should have been given to the actors for controlling their laughter through the making of the movie. I know my career as an actor would have been shot trying to keep a straight face in that hilarious flick.
Superman really jumps rather than fly. His original planet was much larger so he is more dense than humans—hence he is not hurt by bullets and he seems strong. Think astronauts bouncing around on the moon.
I don’t know why I know this...but that’s the story on the man of steel.
“the idea that Superman simply jumps in the air, spreads his arms out, and flies strikes me as ludicrous.”
Every girl’s fave superman bit - when he crushes the 3 smaller diamonds to make one huge diamond for Lois.
I think that part was just a dream though.
I would like to nominate for worst special effects the one from the anti-nuclear agit-prop TV Movie “The Day After”.
At one point one of our protagonists is on a highway, just slightly up ahead he sees the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion, but of course he’s fine, just a little singed.
Of course the worst part of that movie was that the channel that showed it had some panel discussion afterward. Maybe Carl Sagan was on it? Anyway it was several prominent people, all of whom were supposedly not idiots, taking this moronic TV movie seriously.
It was the same thing with that more recent eco-apocalypse movie. What was that called? The Day After Tomorrow? (What’s with the day after meme?) It was just a silly disaster movie and the lefties and libtards in the media all treated it like it was a serious documentary.
You see, this is why one calls them libtards. It’s like they are all intellectually about 8 years old.
“...they used the old Andy Griffith, Mayberry RFD set.”
When Andy Griffith was using it it was the old ‘Adventures of Superman’ sat.
—The Stonehenge in “This Is Spinal Tap” was also bogus.—
It looked like it could have been trodden on by a dwarf.
Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) wrestling rubber alligator in the swamp,
They walk right past “Floyd’s Barber Shop”
I dig it! Are any of your movies on YouTube?
The Monkees as dandruff on Big Vic’s head in the movie of the same name, Head.
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