History Quotes / SpecialEffectFailure

->"The animation here is so terrible it resembles one of those quick and dirty South Korean news reports, if it were rendered with a UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 -- sans Expansion Pak."

->-- '''Creator/JohnCandy''', ''Film/ItCameFromHollywood''

!!Newspapers
->''The owner of the ship makes several speeches boasting about how stable it is; it can stay level even during a raging tempest. I wonder if those speeches were inserted after the filmmakers realized how phony their special effects look.''
-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert''' on ''Film/DeepRising''

!!{{Podcast}}s
->"Kirk loses his grip and slips off the mountain. We then see [[StuntDouble an unrelated man wearing the same clothes]] ''also'' falling off a mountain. Then, Kirk is hanging upside-down in front of a rear screen projection of a moving rock face; Spock as well. The scene awkwardly ends seconds before Kirk touches the ground while Spock floats above him, suspended by movie studio cables. I'm not sure I understand the meaning of this abstract sequence. Perhaps someday, movie scholars will be able to [[MistakenForProfound decipher how these bizarre images relate to one another,]] but I'm not smart enough to decipher the meaning of these seemingly unrelated shots."
-->--'''[[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett]]''', ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' rifftrack

->''We’ve had three credits sequences so far in this series. One of them was the iconic ''Superman'' credits sequence from [[Film/SupermanTheMovie the first film,]] which was beautifully animated if basically the same idea. [[Film/SupermanII The second one]] was similar, but overlaid over a recap of the first film...and this time it’s just movingearth.mov downloaded from a government website with some text that looks like it was overlaid on it on an UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}.''
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-superman-iv-the-quest-for-peace-1987-2/ on]] ''[[Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace Superman IV: The Quest For A F*** to Give]]''

->''This airplane looks like the kind of present your grandmother gives you for your birthday when you're a toddler and she figures, "Hey, he's only three. I could give him a stale dog turd and he'd be happy." The effect is just amazingly bad, and the models will only get worse from here on in. (The upcoming submarine models look shockingly like bathtub toys. If, in fact, they aren't just that.)''
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''Submerged'' (2005)

->''The fake Hong Kong backdrop as Bond climbs out of the ocean looks like it came from a dodgy cartoon. The laser effects actually somehow look worse than they did back in ''{{Film/Goldfinger}}.
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2011/01/27/non-review-review-die-another-day/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Film/DieAnotherDay''

->''That’s [[ChromaKey a green screen]].\\
That’s a green screen.\\
Jack is talking to a tennis ball.\\
Those characters are climbing up a 6 ft tall green thing in front of a green screen.\\
That character is pretending to ride a horse in front of a green screen.\\
I’ve never seen Creator/IanMcShane more embarrassed.\\
Now Creator/EwanMcGregor is talking to a tennis ball.\\
Now the princess is in a cage surrounded by a green screen.''
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/jack-the-giant-slayer-2013-bryan-singer/ on]] ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer''

->''Jo would have suffered severe brain damage from a rock that size hitting her on the head. Luckily it bounces.''
-->--'''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/planet-of-daleks-written-by-terry.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks}} "Planet of the Daleks"]]

->''Michael Grade, responsible for pulling the trigger on the [[{{Cancellation}} 1985 hiatus]], has apparently cited this story as the one that persuaded him that ''Series/DoctorWho'' was crap, a claim that Creator/EricSaward took issue with, pointing out that Grade was in a position to give the program more money. But the flip side of this is what possible reason Michael Grade would have for giving more money to a program that’s blowing what it has on a {{pantomime}} horse. I mean, it’s tough to point at this and call it a compelling case for giving the program more money.''
-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/04/300-million-years-out-of-your-comfort.html El Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E1WarriorsOfTheDeep "Warriors of the Deep"]]

->''Note to the costume designers: go look at a tiger or other mammal with a long tail. [[SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying It doesn't just hang straight down.]] A tail that hangs straight down (with a kink at the end) is blatantly cloth wrapped onto wire. Please don't give a main character a tail unless you're prepared to use CGI in every scene she's in.''
-->--'''[[http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/5114/andromeda-12/ Holly E. Ordway]]''' on ''{{Series/Andromeda}}''

->''Clark arrives there, where he proceeds to deflect their magical [[RakeTake throwing of rakes]] at him with his heat vision in a scene that can best be described as looking like a UsefulNotes/SegaCD game.''
-->--'''''Smallvillains''''' [[http://http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-4-8-spell/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E08Spell Spell]]")

->"And, ''wow'', do you need to scene where butterflies save her from falling off of a church. It looks like watching someone get saved by ''a screen saver''."
-->--'''Creator/BradJones''' on ''Film/SecretSocietyOfSecondBornRoyals''

->"That's clearly just a cheap plastic container that we just slapped a hologram on top of. But when you're making a sci-fi movie, you'd rather have too many holograms than not enough."
-->--"''Film/AfterEarth'' - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dxAZD7Wr_M M. Knight Deleted Commentary"]]

->"This animatronic baby was moving its head, and Marc was holding it up for the camera, playing the scene for all it's worth... It looked as if he were proclaiming to the world, 'Take a look! This is a phony baby! You can get one at Toys "R" Us! Thirty-five dollars and ninety-five cents!' We were howling with laughter and crying in frustration at the same time. The day will live in infamy."
-->--'''Ira Behr''' on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E09Covenant Covenant]]"

->''Michael Grade, responsible for pulling the trigger on the [[{{Cancellation}} 1985 hiatus]], has apparently cited this story as the one that persuaded him that ''Series/DoctorWho'' was crap, a claim that Eric Saward took issue with, pointing out that Grade was in a position to give the program more money. But the flip side of this is what possible reason Michael Grade would have for giving more money to a program that’s blowing what it has on a {{pantomime}} horse. I mean, it’s tough to point at this and call it a compelling case for giving the program more money.''

-->--'''The Nostalgia Critic''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAPSjt6TqCo on]] ''Film/{{Spawn}}''

->-- '''Creator/JohnCancy''', ''Film/ItCameFromHollywood''