Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

Today’s visually impressive achievement will be campy garbage by tomorrow.
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.

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
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
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.
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
SALVATTION This CGI model looks just like a young Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not SO much up close. CRACKED.COM
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
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
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
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
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
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
SPAWN A cape which completely ignores the environmental light..: ...a clearly two-dimensional and copied & pasted army of Hellspawn... ...and A stiffl
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'

Labyrinth

Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
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
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

The Thing

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
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
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
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage
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