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A few to get you started.
D.N.A
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About 45 minutes into the film there is a helicopter crash that rips off the lander crash from “Aliens”. Only this one looks like the chopper is bounced along the model set by its tail by an off screen technician. One of the most appalling effects shots I have ever seen, and worth renting the film specifically for this. The fact that the actor is plainly in front of a poor quality blue screen doesn’t help mind.
Die Another Day.
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Two from this turkey.
When Bond is in the ice speeder (correct phrase? Whatever) and deploys the parachute. When the speeder flies off the cliff face, it is obviously a miniature with NO WEIGHT BEHIND IT WHATSOEVER.
Just after this scene when Bond is surfing on said parachute. The CGI makes the whole thing laughable.
The Hunted
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When Tommy Lee Jones is falling down the waterfall. Again, the cgi is so bad it is laughable. It looks like an animated brush being moved by someone with a mouse.
So what are yours? Age should not be taken into account. What I’m looking for is shots that have taken you out of the film completely like the above for example. Something like “Jason and the Argonaughts” I feel is exempt. The stop frame skeletons are admittedly dated, but they are nowhere near as jarring as the examples listed above IMHO.
D.N.A
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About 45 minutes into the film there is a helicopter crash that rips off the lander crash from “Aliens”. Only this one looks like the chopper is bounced along the model set by its tail by an off screen technician. One of the most appalling effects shots I have ever seen, and worth renting the film specifically for this. The fact that the actor is plainly in front of a poor quality blue screen doesn’t help mind.
Die Another Day.
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Two from this turkey.
When Bond is in the ice speeder (correct phrase? Whatever) and deploys the parachute. When the speeder flies off the cliff face, it is obviously a miniature with NO WEIGHT BEHIND IT WHATSOEVER.
Just after this scene when Bond is surfing on said parachute. The CGI makes the whole thing laughable.
The Hunted
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When Tommy Lee Jones is falling down the waterfall. Again, the cgi is so bad it is laughable. It looks like an animated brush being moved by someone with a mouse.
So what are yours? Age should not be taken into account. What I’m looking for is shots that have taken you out of the film completely like the above for example. Something like “Jason and the Argonaughts” I feel is exempt. The stop frame skeletons are admittedly dated, but they are nowhere near as jarring as the examples listed above IMHO.
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Bane wrote:
> So I'm not the only person who saw that film?
>
> What a load of pants it was.
>
> "Ooh look, scary ghosts that possess you and make you stick
> paperclips through your face".
>
> Gay.
I saw it too, like a semi retarded remake of Carpenters earlier classic Assault on Precinct 13. And was it me or did the main bad guy look a bit like Marilyn Manson?
> So I'm not the only person who saw that film?
>
> What a load of pants it was.
>
> "Ooh look, scary ghosts that possess you and make you stick
> paperclips through your face".
>
> Gay.
I saw it too, like a semi retarded remake of Carpenters earlier classic Assault on Precinct 13. And was it me or did the main bad guy look a bit like Marilyn Manson?
The Mummy Returns
The final "boss" style fight with the scorpion King who looked so stupid I almost died of laughter.
Pearl Harbour
Not so much bad effects, more that they so over done it was hard to really enjoy the big action scene when it finally arrived. Planes don't just explode, they disintegrate, flying about the place in a hail of fire and debris, CGI dummies get thrown through the air, boats explode like their a set piece from Star Wars, just an incredibly disappointing scene in an altogether crap movie.
The pearl harbour attack in Tora Tora Tora which used models looked more convincing than in this turkey.
The final "boss" style fight with the scorpion King who looked so stupid I almost died of laughter.
Pearl Harbour
Not so much bad effects, more that they so over done it was hard to really enjoy the big action scene when it finally arrived. Planes don't just explode, they disintegrate, flying about the place in a hail of fire and debris, CGI dummies get thrown through the air, boats explode like their a set piece from Star Wars, just an incredibly disappointing scene in an altogether crap movie.
The pearl harbour attack in Tora Tora Tora which used models looked more convincing than in this turkey.
Totally. Chap who used to be my housemate got it out and we both watched it, expecting little.
We got less.
We got less.
That Die Another Day one is pretty good.
I mentioned it a while a go! It looks pathetic!
I mentioned it a while a go! It looks pathetic!
So I'm not the only person who saw that film?
What a load of pants it was.
"Ooh look, scary ghosts that possess you and make you stick paperclips through your face".
Gay.
What a load of pants it was.
"Ooh look, scary ghosts that possess you and make you stick paperclips through your face".
Gay.
Ghosts of Mars
The monorail thingy: Honest to God, all that was missing was the little 'Hornby' sign on the side of the monorail car...
The monorail thingy: Honest to God, all that was missing was the little 'Hornby' sign on the side of the monorail car...
Tiltawhirl wrote:
> The surfing bit in Escape from L.A
Heh, thats what prompted me to start this thread, as someone mentioned it in The Thing thread ;)
> The surfing bit in Escape from L.A
Heh, thats what prompted me to start this thread, as someone mentioned it in The Thing thread ;)
The surfing bit in Escape from L.A
Sabretooth.
Gah, it's embarassing to watch this movie. Quick clips of the sabretooth that last for a second because the effects are *that* bad. Then when they show the sabretooth's whole body.. horrible! If they used a real animal or even a fake one but with fur.. it would've been easier to watch and might possibly be scared.
Gah, it's embarassing to watch this movie. Quick clips of the sabretooth that last for a second because the effects are *that* bad. Then when they show the sabretooth's whole body.. horrible! If they used a real animal or even a fake one but with fur.. it would've been easier to watch and might possibly be scared.
JC941 wrote:
> There was a program about a year ago on Sky about cheap special
> effects. One of the best was a toy t-rex dinosaur put up close to the
> camera with some really pathetic sfx. You could see the platic line
> going round the dinosaur where the two halves were joined.-lol
Bwhahahahahaha! Class!
> There was a program about a year ago on Sky about cheap special
> effects. One of the best was a toy t-rex dinosaur put up close to the
> camera with some really pathetic sfx. You could see the platic line
> going round the dinosaur where the two halves were joined.-lol
Bwhahahahahaha! Class!
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