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.
Not a special effect but at the end of the King Kong remake....Kong falls off the Empire State building, craters the ground and still retains his form....no blood , no guts, no broken bones poking out....
In real life he would look like a junebug on a windshield at 100 miles an hour ....
Many times in Swamp People, I have seen them take aim with one gun and then they shoot with a totally different gun. Obviously splice two different incidents together.
Also once they were stranded until they could fix the boat motor. No one mentioned why they didn’t just ride in the boat with the camera.
Here are some shots from our latest, "Evel Knievel on Skull Island: The Rescue of Ann Darrow": 
Here is a shot of the "vampire cut in half" scene from CHARLIE CHAN IN TRANSYLVANIA:
Here is a shot from "The Mummy In the Maze":
And finally, some cheesy effects from our movie "Attack of the 50 Foot Ghoul":
IMHO, it’s pretty hard to beat an iguana with prosthetic makeup...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_x6qZEvX4k
Although not a movie, and not really special effects, I remember watching the old Dark Shadows re-runs-—specifically a scene in which Barnabas Collins was drinking a glass of “blood”. Problem was, the blood was thick and orangey and left pulp on the side of the glass-—it was tomato juice, LOL.
In another episode, a character was running through the woods....he brushed against a tree and the tree rocked back and forth.
The bird thing in “The Giant Claw.” It was “as big as a battleship” but otherwise didn’t inspire much terror.
I saw an, ahh, “adult” movie while in college years ago. It was set in the 18th century. The two “stars” walked into a bedroom equipped with light switches, electrical outlets and radiators.
After the first installment of Star Wars in ‘77 everyone thought Lucas was brilliant. The more he filmed and tinkered the more obvious it was that he just got lucky. JarJar Binks? What was he thinking?
Mesa no deserve to be speshuh effect!
Robert Vaughan!
“Mysteries in History,” hosted by Peter Graves in the opening sequence of Men in Black II is pretty hilarious. Loaded with “special effects.”
No one can top the Japanese of the fifties for bad special effects:The zippered monster genre - Godzilla, Rodan, etc
Is that Robert Vaughn and James Arness? Wow, I guess you gotta pay the bills somehow.
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