History Main / SpecialEffectFailure

* [[SpecialEffectFailure/AnimatedFilms Films -- Animated]]

-->-- '''Tom Servo''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E12GodzillaVsMegalon Godzilla vs. Megalon]]''

-->-- '''Tom Servo''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''

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Sometimes cheesy FX are regarded as part of the SoBadItsGood charm of a work. Sometimes authors will [[IntendedAudienceReaction intentionally aim for this]] as a form of StylisticSuck. See also {{Prop}}.

The audience's expectations for effects have grown up with the media. For example, it is obviously a dummy being thrown from a train in ''Film/{{The Great Train Robbery|1903}}'' -- but since it was filmed when filmmaking ''itself'' was in its infancy, people forgave it. If a modern remake had done that, however, they would not have been nearly as kind unless it was for [[StylisticSuck other reasons]]; ''Franchise/StarWars'' raised the bar for visual effects so high that only the most advanced pre-1977 effects can measure up. It should also be noted that the modern push to update everything to HD can also result in a retroactive form of this, as a matte painting in a 1980s VHS release looks fine, but on the cleaned up, [[DigitalDestruction "remastered"]] Blu-ray looks like, well, a cheap matte painting in the background. Same for video games when prerendered backgrounds look weird.

Note that, despite the name, Visual Effect Failures go here too.

** ''Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros'' originally featured an animated sequence of the title characters singing their theme song as part of the finale. When the ''Mickey Mouse Revue'' ended its run at Tokyo Disneyland, however, the Imagineers decided to fix up the animatronics of Donald, Jose, and Panchito used in the old show to enhance the finale of ''Gran Fiesta Tour''. While a good idea in theory, the transition was anything but smooth; the animatronics were in their forties by that point and had a very hard time standing up on their own. In one notorious instance, Jose completely fell over during normal operating hours, forcing the park to replace him with a mock "memorial" while he underwent repairs (the same fate later befell Donald despite efforts to keep him propped up with poorly disguised boxes). Eventually the Imagineers decided all three animatronics were long overdue for a refurbishment, so as a temporary measure, they replaced the finale... not with the original animated sequence, but with cheap-looking, static cardboard cutouts of the characters.

Note that, despite the name, Practical Effect Failures go here too.

** When Diaz ''doesn't'' copy, the characters tend to look UncannyValley, like one scene where Aang has a twelve year old's face, a teenager's body, and elongated limbs.