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* ''[[Birdemic]]'' has [[Attack of the Killer Whatever|killer]] [[Big Badass Bird of Prey|eagles]] which appear to be animated gifs—they are two-dimensional and frequently out of scale relative to the background, and hardly move their wings. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwSTDzaZ234 See here.]
* ''[[Turkish Star Wars]]''. Ever single special effect (excluding the ones [[Stock Footage|stolen]] from ''[[Star Wars]]'') looks cheaper than cheap. Most notable are the hilarious costumes of the various monsters.
** Internet humor writer Seanbaby [https://web.archive.org/web/20061112194912/http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=22122 points out] exactly one glorious aversion: in one of the movie's [[Engaging Chevrons|several]] [[Training Montage|training montages]], Turkish Luke kicks a rock so hard it hits a wall and ''explodes''. Slow-mo replay reveals that the "rock" is actually a ''live grenade'', thrown at a wall so a cameraman standing just outside the blast radius can film it. Solving SFX problems with [[More Dakka]]? We salute you, Turkish George Lucas!
** The funniest has to be the [[Big Bad]]'s death: torn in half. How do we know this? Because the camera showing his face has a piece of cardboard on the right half, then on the left half, both sides having the whole nose. [[Special Effects Failure]] doesn't ''begin'' to describe it...
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roYo5EQi7A4 The Mighty Gorga]''......
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*** Made more jarring by the fact that Riker ''clearly'' orders a full spread of torpedoes to be fired because "we'll only get one shot." When the Klingon ship begins to decloak, the Enterprise only fires a single torpedo despite his order, because only one was used in ''Star Trek VI''.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat: Annihilation|Mortal Kombat Annihilation]]'' had a climactic fight scene that was too badly done to describe with words.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20040803092922/http://www.jabootu.com/mka.htm This review] nominates the animation of a "velosphere" rolling into a tunnel as "quite possibly the single most inept special effect to hit the screen in the last twenty years of theatrical cinema."
* Even in 1972, ''[[Night of the Lepus]]''' use of cute little bunnies filmed on a scale-model set didn't exactly produce the intended scare.
* ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Meet the Spartans]]'' has a particularly confusing example of this: In a scene where Leonidas addresses the fat Spartan who just had his eyes punched out by an enraged opponent in a Yo Momma joke contest, [http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/3438/snapshot20081219235401rr2.jpg the fat Spartan's eyes are chroma-keyed out of the picture]... and you can clearly see the stone wall behind him through his eye holes, which would imply he's missing the back of his head as well... except he isn't, because just one shot ago the audience has a clear view of the back of his head, and he looks fine.
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