Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

Hollywood types are constantly giving each other awards for how visually neat-o their effects are. The thing is, those same effects look like cheesy garbage after a very short time.

In fact, maybe these were garbage to begin with, and we just never noticed.

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Entry by Kevin King

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Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by kidrawk

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by Chan Teik Onn

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by PParker

The Lord of the Rings features groundbreaking visual effects that still hold up over a decade later... And also Gollum drowning in obvious CGI on Moun

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Entry by Ka-ga-mi

CRACKED.COM While they did flip a real truck in The Dark Knight... The visible steam from the launching piston still gives the whole trick away.

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Entry by Andrea Meno

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by Andrea Meno

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by Kevin King

SALVATTION This CGI model looks just like a young Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not SO much up close. CRACKED.COM

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Entry by TheClam

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by PollyDarton

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by TheClam

Despite hitting middle-age Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope has aged fairly well Ironically, the worst looking parts were added over 20 years later fo

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Entry by TedStixon

2007's I AM LEGEND is a fascinating story about a who is forced man to live alone and survive in a world of violent mutants. It's just too bad that ev

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Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by T. S. Obiech

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by masta_X

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by Vincent Pall

It's not every day that you see a dog with a human face, SO people were justifiably a bit freaked out back in 1978 when they saw this in Invasion of t

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Entry by kidrawk

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by kidrawk

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by DrStrang3love

SPAWN A cape which completely ignores the environmental light..: ...a clearly two-dimensional and copied & pasted army of Hellspawn... ...and A stiffl

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Entry by LobsLawBomb

ONE OF THESE IS NEO IN THE $150,000, 000 BLOCKBUSTER MATRIX ELOADED THE OTHER IS NEO IN THE PS2 VIDEOGAME CRACKED.COM 'THE PATH OF NEO'

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Entry by Kalli

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by Kevin King

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by kidrawk

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Johnny Knoxville's second head in Men in Black IL (2002) might have looked okay at the time... :..but now it looks like something that a teenager coul

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Entry by Kevin King

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by Chan Teik Onn

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by Ka-ga-mi

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by TedStixon

John Carpenter's 1982 classic THE THING made keen use of practical effects to create a visceral, haunting alien menace... The 2011 uasi-prequel of the

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Entry by Hestutomo

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by PookieJones

CRACKED.COM This is what a 50-something Patrick Stewart looked like, complete with circles under his eyes and human skin. X-Men: The Last Stand, 2006

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Entry by Hestutomo

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by Hestutomo

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by Hestutomo

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by Scott Laffey

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Entry by Kevin King

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage