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post #1 of 18
6/9/11 at 7:46pm
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(This is for Jacob Singer, who complained in the current Worst CGI thread about practical effects being blameless in Chewers' eyes)

 

We here at CHUD love old-school practical effects, and sometimes even prefer them to CGI... but what happens when even THEY suck? My personal favorite bad effects are from Hobgoblins and Troll 2. The former has the most hilariously obvious hand puppets in film history, and you can clearly see the actors are having to manipulate the puppets themselves much of the time. The latter has equally horrid makeup jobs.

 

Gentlemen (and women), the floor is open.

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post #2 of 18
6/9/11 at 8:31pm

Would bad stop-motion qualify as practical?

 

 

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post #3 of 18
6/9/11 at 8:55pm

The shark from Jaws.You know it's true!

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post #4 of 18
6/9/11 at 9:01pm

you shut your mouth.

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post #5 of 18
6/9/11 at 10:54pm

Don't get me wrong,I love that movie. But try to picture it if Spielberg was able to follow his original intention and showing the shark from the beginning. The movie works because of that sense of dread not seeing the shark builds up. Come on though, it's such an obvious mechanical monstrosity. I swear you can even see the hydraulic parts in one scene. The movie is greatly elevated by showing the after effects of the shark's attack or using the barrels. It's a great movie in spite of the shark effect,not because of it.      

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post #6 of 18
6/9/11 at 11:43pm

Oh you're right. Just giving you a hard time. The best parts of the film are the ones without the shark.  

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post #7 of 18
6/10/11 at 12:52am

Jabba's little sewer rat friend from Jedi is shit.

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post #8 of 18
6/10/11 at 1:12am

The dam bursting in Donner's SUPERMAN. Did they run out of money or something? The miniatures looks like someone threw a bucket of water over your Hornby train set


Edited by Paul Allen - 6/10/11 at 1:23am
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post #9 of 18
6/10/11 at 1:29am
It was the 70's how else were they to do it
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post #10 of 18
6/10/11 at 10:59am

That's not an excuse for bad water effects. The Poseidon Adventure had some great water sequences, while not totally realistic, they still were much better than the Superman dam.

 

I'd like to add the Demon in Night of the Demon. A great creepy little film which would have been better if they didn't decide to show the damn creature. The scenes with it are just so comical, it's like a pig with long rubber fingernails.

 

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post #11 of 18
6/10/11 at 11:14am
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Originally Posted by HarleyQuinn22 View Post

Jabba's little sewer rat friend from Jedi is shit.



As much as I love Yoda, there are several scenes in Empire where he just looks like any other dead-eyed puppet. 

 

And thanks for starting this thread, Spider. I'll try to come up with a list of some that I find truly egregious. I'll probably stick to big-budget favorites as opposed to cheapie horror flicks or whatnot.

 

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post #12 of 18
6/10/11 at 11:19am

For as good as the turtle suits were, and they really are great and detailed and expressive, I always thought Splinter looked like a turd rolled across a barber's floor in the original Ninja Turtles.

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post #13 of 18
6/10/11 at 12:07pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer View Post





As much as I love Yoda, there are several scenes in Empire where he just looks like any other dead-eyed puppet. 

 

And thanks for starting this thread, Spider. I'll try to come up with a list of some that I find truly egregious. I'll probably stick to big-budget favorites as opposed to cheapie horror flicks or whatnot.

 


You're welcome, though I disagree about Yoda. As far as stop-motion goes... well, it's never looked totally realistic, not even Harryhausen. In fact, the unreality of it is often part of the charm for me, especially in films like the aforementioned Harryhausen creature features, the Evil Dead trilogy, or even King Kong.

 

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post #14 of 18
6/10/11 at 12:34pm

The alien scenes in the first half hour of Xtro. But that's part of the movie's charm.

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post #15 of 18
6/17/11 at 5:09pm

I could fill this list with shitty forgotten children's fantasy films from back in the day.  In particular "Dragon World" where the titular dragon goes from a crappy puppet to a crappy clay stop-motion thing to a crappy early days of CGI thing.  Can't forget the giant Stretch Armstrong aliens in "Mac and Me" or the ghastly animated masks in "Garbage Pail Kids" either.

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post #16 of 18
6/17/11 at 6:28pm

Oh dear gawd.  The Garbage Pail KIds. I can't look at a still from that movie for longer than five seconds.  I can't imagine sitting through the whole thing.   

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post #17 of 18
6/17/11 at 7:23pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Spider View Post




You're welcome, though I disagree about Yoda. As far as stop-motion goes... well, it's never looked totally realistic, not even Harryhausen. In fact, the unreality of it is often part of the charm for me, especially in films like the aforementioned Harryhausen creature features, the Evil Dead trilogy, or even King Kong.

 


Yes. Just because an effect isn't convincingly "real" doesn't mean it isn't somehow compelling or beautiful.

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post #18 of 18
6/18/11 at 5:54am

The practical spinosaurus from Jurassic Park 3. At one point it looks like it's bobbing up and down like a dripping bird.

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