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’ve been making low-budget short films for years and yes,”
Hey Kharis as your films on Youtube? We want to see them.
Robin Hood movie incorporating “Higgins Boats” as Norman landing craft circa 1160 AD.
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16_8l0yS-g
It’s pretty hard to outdo a giant shark attacking a 747 airplane in flight.
Note: Technically NSFW, as it has a bad word.
Ah Thats not fair! Godzilla VS Mothra is an AWESOME movie.
The Stonehenge in “This Is Spinal Tap” was also bogus.
It was in danger of being crushed by a pair of dancing dwarves!
Drat.
Same’s true with Patton (Yanks in M41 tanks versus Krauts in M48s). For stuff like that, ya gotta give ‘em some wiggle room...Shermans and Panzers were just a *little* tough to get hold of by then!
Aliens.... oh, wait - those were the best.
Don’t be dissin’ t.v. Batman. The best!
But you can’t say he didn’t deserve it.
Captain Kirk taking cover behind a painted tumbleweed.
Dang...missed that one. :-)
I thought that was Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein.
Is that a “cigar boat” behind them?
That reminds me, I must get my watch fixed.
Lame. Needed crutches.
I say that as a cook that has opened oven doors on pyroclastic flows (small scale).
/johnny
The Thing with Two Heads starring Ray Milland and Roosevelt Greer.
Milland plays Dr. Maxwell Kirshner, a dying, wealthy racist who demands that his head be transplanted onto a healthy body. As his health rapidly deteriorates, there remains only one alternative: graft Kirshner’s head onto the body of a black death row inmate, Jack Moss, played by Grier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5A
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