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MCE: would plywood shark
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KKDW: Removed
- Thunderbirds. Just... Thunderbirds
Darmok: Cut
- Likewise, any movie that features an obvious dummy falling or being thrown from a great height.
for being far too generic.
Shini: Okay, who had deleted my earlier Justice League Example? It's a great show, but even the most hardcore fans know they botched the CGI.
- As did Homestar Runner in the sb-mail stunt double
, again despite being an animation. (Although technically it is within the context of a movie being made by the characters.)
- As did Homestar Runner in the sb-mail stunt double
It's mentioned further down in its own entry.
- The Id Monster appearing in Forbidden Planet when caught in the force-field fence is actually better than most effects in B-movies of its era, but the cartoon-demon look was considered such an embarrassing Nightmare Retardant in context that the novelization had the monster remain completely invisible.
- Debatable: this troper (in college) just recently saw it, and found the Id monster actually surprisingly creepy. Of course, he was watching it at night. Alone.
- Indeed, that monster was the only thing I ever saw in a movie that actually did give me nightmares.
Not this trope, then; it's Nightmare Retardant.
- In Spider-Man II, many of the CG special effects look like they came out of a video game and were integrated about as well. The most glaring effect was during the train sequence, where the shot showing the end of the line looked like a screenshot from a recent Grand Theft Auto game and made about as much engineering sense. Also cheesy was during Doctor Octopus's escape, where shots that were fixed directly on the tentacles as they raced through the air looked incredibly cheesy.
And for this one, I'm gonna have to completely disagree.
Trogga: The Homestar one is still a specific example.
Nohbody: Would the wolf from the intro of 300 looking like a reject from the Muppets qualify as a failure of special effects, or one of design (hence not eligible for mention in this trope)?
henke37: Could someone please make a better picture, something where you instantly see the problem? I am talking about something like stuff on strings. Or maybe a cardboard cutout in a live action scene or something like that.
- The highly-anticipated Twilight Princess had it's share of badly-done cutscenes. Especially poor was the scene in which Lanayru warns Link that the fused shadows could corrupt him. It involves bizarre duplicates of Link and scenery that resembles props from a fourth-grade school play. The sages' attempt at executing Ganondorf was nearly as bad.
- The former scene was actually Nightmare Fuel to me. It wasn't trying to look real to start with, and it came across as surreal and unsettling. I don't get what you're getting at with the latter scene. How did that look fake?
- While most of the execution scene was pretty well-done, Ganondorf pulling the sword out of himself looked really fake. He starts pulling it two the side way too quickly, making it look like it swung through his waist.
I believe this was cut because it's really just nitpicking at minor things in an otherwise great game.
Also, who cut my Hannah Montana example?
Prfnoff: Moved the picture of Ro-Man to Nightmare Retardant.
Removed this example:
- In Men In Black, the scene with Jay being picked up and tossed around by tentacles emerging from a parked car suffered due to the tentacles looking acceptably real but the obviously CGI Jay being waved around in the air looking utterly unrealistic.
