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 have several times seen airplane contrails in the sky in movies set in the old West.
I always liked the old cowboy movies where a six shot revolver could fire fifteen times without a reload.
I thought the lizard monster in the new Spider man movie was surprisingly crude considering the rest of the effects were pretty good.
How innocent of an age it was back then where it was important to portray a loving couple to fool the public.
Zardoz.
Somebody had to rule the outlands.
Birddenic
“Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe”
Where is that from?
8088 baby!
“Robert Vaughan!”
Yes, he is supposed to be the teenager of Teenage Caveman but looks 30 in the film.
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.
Had to hit abuse FM. Whatever graphic you intended was replaced.
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.
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.
The worst CGI / Special Effects ever
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