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What Were the WORST Special Effects Ever Seen in a Movie?
self | July 13, 2012 | PJ-Comix

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.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: movies; specialeffects
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To: yarddog

I have several times seen airplane contrails in the sky in movies set in the old West.


Historically accurate. Because back in the mid 1800’s the govt was spraying cowboys and Indians with time triggered neurotoxins. Gonna send this to George Noory.


61 posted on 07/13/2012 7:42:47 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy (Trust in God, but empty the clip.)
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To: PJ-Comix
So Fake!

62 posted on 07/13/2012 7:43:22 PM PDT by Blogatron (Brought to you by The American Frog Council; 'Frog - The other green meat')
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To: PJ-Comix

I always liked the old cowboy movies where a six shot revolver could fire fifteen times without a reload.


63 posted on 07/13/2012 7:44:54 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I thought the lizard monster in the new Spider man movie was surprisingly crude considering the rest of the effects were pretty good.


64 posted on 07/13/2012 7:45:16 PM PDT by DManA
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To: PJ-Comix
Do special effects from gay porno movies qualify?


65 posted on 07/13/2012 7:45:24 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: Blogatron

66 posted on 07/13/2012 7:46:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Blogatron

How innocent of an age it was back then where it was important to portray a loving couple to fool the public.


67 posted on 07/13/2012 7:47:10 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: BenLurkin

Zardoz.

Somebody had to rule the outlands.


68 posted on 07/13/2012 7:48:44 PM PDT by DManA
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To: M. Thatcher

Birddenic


69 posted on 07/13/2012 7:48:49 PM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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To: PJ-Comix

“Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe”


70 posted on 07/13/2012 7:49:20 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: BenLurkin

Where is that from?


71 posted on 07/13/2012 7:49:57 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: PJ-Comix
Robot Monster takes the cake. Guy with a gorilla suit with a diving helmet on his head.


72 posted on 07/13/2012 7:50:51 PM PDT by packrat35 (Admit it! We are almost ready to be called a police state!)
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To: BenLurkin

8088 baby!


73 posted on 07/13/2012 7:51:06 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: BenLurkin

“Robert Vaughan!”

Yes, he is supposed to be the teenager of Teenage Caveman but looks 30 in the film.


74 posted on 07/13/2012 7:53:29 PM PDT by garjog
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To: OneWingedShark

I don’t know. Saw it while searching google images and thought it would dress up this thread a little.

Not that it needs dressing up, of course.


75 posted on 07/13/2012 7:53:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Had to hit abuse FM. Whatever graphic you intended was replaced.


76 posted on 07/13/2012 7:54:16 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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77 posted on 07/13/2012 7:54:22 PM PDT by frithguild (You can call me Snippy the Anti-Freeper)
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To: PJ-Comix

My memory of this is vague, but it sticks nonetheless....

It’s a scene from the movie “The Valachi Papers”, where there’s three 1920s cars proceeding down a street at night, and the image has been manipulated to emphasize them...but it’s clear that there’s then-current 1960s cars passing them in the other lanes. Only time I ever saw the movie, it was one of the first scenes I saw (having joined it midshow), and for me it was a major “what POS movie is this???!!!” moment.


78 posted on 07/13/2012 7:57:27 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: PJ-Comix
A nuclear submarine sailing beneath an iceberg in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) finds itself in peril when chunks of ice sink down around it as the berg breaks up.

While watching The Battle of the Bulge (1966), one might find it odd that the Germans fighting a 1944 battle are riding around in American tanks from the 1950's.

79 posted on 07/13/2012 8:00:20 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Shark Attack 3 Megalodon

The worst CGI / Special Effects ever

More gems

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80 posted on 07/13/2012 8:01:47 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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