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The Giant Claw
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What movie's visual effects have aged the poorest?
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Bobby Roberts
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jack_package_200
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ctrl + F Lawnmower Man
You gotta be kidding me
You gotta be kidding me
Mind you-Air Force One is not even 20 years old.
That looks like something from the early 80s.
ctrl + F Lawnmower Man
You gotta be kidding me
But, he is god there...
RatskyWatsky
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Prototype Viktor
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The one that makes most lead actors white
RatskyWatsky
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It's name was Blarp?
Really?
Yeah, that fits, I guess.
Yeah, lol. I even had a stuffed toy of it that made weird guttural sounds
valkillmore
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That plane crash at the end of air force one
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Like, come on. People in ape suits hanging out in front of cliff cutouts with some savanna footage behind them?
And HAL's design is so basic. So a super-advanced artificial intelligence looks like a bowling ball with a red LED in it?
Don't get me started on the ending (which goes on waaay too long) - great, you put a kaleidoscope in front of the camera. Oh, what's this? A bunch of color filters on the same footage of some landscape over and over and over again?
And people say this movie has the greatest special effects of all time, smh.
Like, come on. People in ape suits hanging out in front of cliff cutouts with some savanna footage behind them?
And HAL's design is so basic. So a super-advanced artificial intelligence looks like a bowling ball with a red LED in it?
Don't get me started on the ending (which goes on waaay too long) - great, you put a kaleidoscope in front of the camera. Oh, what's this? A bunch of color filters on the same footage of some landscape over and over and over again?
And people say this movie has the greatest special effects of all time, smh.
RatskyWatsky
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spoilr gif removed
Frankenstrat
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Spawn deserved better
George Oscar Bluth II
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That ninja fight in Blade 2.
SchrodingerC
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It's like ILM, or whoever used their B - C teams to work on the Special Editions. Maybe in 2023 we'll get SE's that aren't completely horrendous.
I feel bad for you, man.
Strangelove77
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God bless your heart.
teehee for the lulz
Freeza Under The Shower
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ctrl + F Lawnmower Man
You gotta be kidding me
already looked bad at the time though. Same with terrible Lost in Space CG monkey (and later on Gary Oldman). I would say the one thing where you can actually say it aged poorest is actually the first dinosaur in Jurassic Park, mostly you now notice the perspective is fucked and it clips through the trees at time.
Another obvious victim of aging are '80s animatronics or effects like in The Thing. Someone brought up Alien 3, where the front-projected alien replaced with CG even at the time looked absolutely terrible, particularly on the VHS I first saw it on. It was like "wtf was that supposed to be".
Slightly less obvious example of animatronics and learning about front- and back projection (video course on that can be found on the Stan Winston creature shop company page) is The Terminator, where if you know how they shot it, it, sadly, kind of ruins the magic of the movie, particularly near the end.
RatskyWatsky
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Okay, I'll edit
Some people never pass up an opportunity to shit on 2001. It's still the GOAT.
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Actually expected worse out of some of these, some of these look passable but within the context of the movie yeah it can be jarring.
*edit* nope it was not, there is pretty much the entire thing summarized though.
I'm 80% sure that scene was in the trailer.
*edit* nope it was not, there is pretty much the entire thing summarized though.
Most of the VFX in An Unexpected Journey look great - save for the clearly rushed stuff during the Radaghast/Warg chase and a few of the shots in the opening prologue.
biggersmaller
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blame space
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Did someone just call spoilers on "Deep Blue Sea"
As a whole the effects in the Hobbit trilogy are terrific, it's just a handful of bad scenes seem to taint peoples perception for some reason. To be fair, the bad shots are super bad and rushed, but as a whole it's a cut above most movies, not to mention Smaug who looks utterly incredible.
Same thing happened with King Kong, a few questionable shots and compositing in a few places, but by and large the effects work in that movie was utterly next level.
CreeperBlocks
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I saw this scene in the bluray version of A New Hope. I was like wait a minute, this didn't happen when I saw it when I was a kid. The Fuck George?
VeryGooster
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CLU's face in TRON: Legacy. I mean, the rest of the movie still looks fine.
I think even in 2010 people were put off and going "uncanny valley," but it was made extra jarring to me after being surprisingly impressed by Ant-Man 'de-aging' Michael Douglas and even Arnold in Terminator Genisys.
I think even in 2010 people were put off and going "uncanny valley," but it was made extra jarring to me after being surprisingly impressed by Ant-Man 'de-aging' Michael Douglas and even Arnold in Terminator Genisys.
BravesCountry
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Obvious trolling, should have been a little more subtle.
Nothing beats Tron at how poorly effects have aged.
Spawn deserved better
I remember re-watching this film in 2007 and even then, my jaw dropped at how bad Satan actually looked.
Attack of the Clones
Ok I LEGIT thought this was the Clone Wars TV show. No joke.
pixelation
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CGI effects age like shit... having said that Jumanji always looked like shit...
Show looks better...
And it's still a fantastic movie.
PhoncipleBone
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CLU's face in TRON: Legacy. I mean, the rest of the movie still looks fine.
I think even in 2010 people were put off and going "uncanny valley," but it was made extra jarring to me after being surprisingly impressed by Ant-Man 'de-aging' Michael Douglas and even Arnold in Terminator Genisys.
There were a few shots of CLU that looked really damn good, but only a few shots. And the illusion got ruined when he spoke.
Princess Viola
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Attack of the Clones
What are you talking about, that looks fantastic for an Xbox game!
If someone could comp the plane crashing into the submarine from Lost, this would be perfect.
Spawn deserved better
I was told the back story for mal.
Company had like a week to do it, so they just mashed up a warewolf from *citation needed* that they were working on, from a previous movie. Warewolf in paris maybe?
They had no time to even animate a mouth.
Something to that efffect. Clearly a rush job, but literally had no time to do it.
Extra Sauce
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ctrl + F Lawnmower Man
You gotta be kidding me
I mean, I don't think that scene is supposed to look real... those are 3D graphics even in the context of the movie, right? Which would make it less egregious than most of the examples in this thread. But I haven't seen the movie in like a quarter of a century so I dunno.
pixelation
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Yikes, CGI movies will never age as gracefully as hand drawn animation does/did... other than aspect ratio of course.
matrix-cat
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Attack of the Clones
I was about to say that it was hardly bad for a TV show
...then I realised
clone wars tv show looks even worse
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