Not every special effect is created equal. For every photorealistic shot, there are dozens that don’t quite pass the test. Though we love to celebrate great work as much as the next site, sometimes it’s more fun to look at the stuff that just doesn’t work.
Running just over three-minutes-long, "The Worst Movie Special Effects Ever Compilation" from World Wide Interweb (via Slashfilm) is a perfect toast to the anti-ILMs and anti-WETAs of the film industry. While some choices were spot on — The Rock in the climax of "The Mummy Returns" is a prime example — others seem like a cheat, specifically the inclusion of something like "Birdemic." Most of the egregious offenders are poorly composited CG elements and bad animation, though some practical effects do sneak their way in as well.
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Watch the compilation of worst ever movie VFX below and let us know what you think should have been included or left out.
Hilarious! I\’d like to add a few. Spawn (1997), The Amazing Bulk, The Story of Ricky, the melting gold statue from the 2ed Hobbit movie, Legolas jumping over a crumbling bridge in the 3ed Hobbit movie, Birdemic 2, Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins, Pot Zombies, the Anaconda quadrilogy, Pulse 2 & 3, The Time Machine I Found at a Yard Sale, all the stuff we used to think make the Matrix movies look cool, etc.
Include any VFX shot from "Meteor" (1979)!
Some are bad (Air Force One), some are funny and bad (Birdemic), but why the hell is Howard the Duck here, or The Mist? I don\’t see no problem with the Night of The Lepus either. It is a scene about big killer rabbits. It\’s probably the premise itself. There\’s nothing really extraordinaly bad or bad in a funny way about the excecution.
Yeah, ILM\’s work on Howard the Duck has no reason to be on here other than people think its fun to kick Howard the Duck.
Is Mike Hodges\’ Flash Gordon (1980) in there? (When a friend and I saw the film on its release, we sat there after the end credits…then watched the movie all over again. We were 14 year olds with nothing else pressing to do.)