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Hi, I'm in the middle of watching the Pumaman episode of MSTK3. When the main character becomes a Super Hero he quickly jumps off the top of a house and begins flying. This is definatly the worst special effects to demonstrate somebody flying ever!!! I think Mike says it best :" He has the power to rear-project major cities." and Crow  can put it in a song: "Pu-ma-man! He flys like a moron" Good god, Mike perfectly discripes it! Pumaman will often wave his arms as though he's trying to stop himself from flipping over and he even has his feet pointed directly in the direction of the ground and the rear-projection is still moving back! I wonder if the director was sick one day so he had his son come in and hand him direct this scene. No wait, what I think is the director was sick the whole time so he had his son direct the whole movie! Crap, if anybody has seen any flying special effects worse than this one..then I'm scared. Anybody seen worse?



Post Edited (08-12-04 13:13)

Superman IV is pretty up there for me. I loved Superman II, the sequels progressivly went downhill. So did the special effects..in IV you can even see the strings holding him up during his moon fight with nuclear man. Not the worst special effects ever, but considering the name brand attatched to the film you'd expect more.

Robocop in Robocop III. When he flies across the OCP room near the end, just before the andriods explode, you can clearly see the wires. Besides, it just looks so far-fetched that something that clunky could just glide across the room a couple feet off the floor.

For me it has to be the flying motorcyle in Megaforce. That is one of the crappiest blue screen effects I've ever seen in a movie, hands down. Barry Bostwick, sitting on a bike, rocking gently back and forth as he looks around and smiles, the wind blowing his hair ever so slightly, as the chroma-keyed background (inserted as seamlessly as a TV weather map) rocks about in ways that don't really correspond to his movements. I have yet to show that to someone who doesn't gape at it and exclaim "oh, my God."



Post Edited (08-12-04 09:36)

Yes MEGAFORCE!!!!! Hands down the crappiest flying FX I've seen.

I actually watched this film last night & it still makes me laugh. (for all the wrong reasons of course). Funniest line from Ace Hunter "Remember the good guys always win... even in the 80's".

Anyone know when its coming out on DVD?

Superman in the 50s series was pretty obvious in that George Reeves' stomach was noticably flatter than it should have been, giving the impression he was lying on a table.  
King of the Rocket Men serials were pretty terrible, too.  (The costume was classic, however.  A bullet for a head and "UP" and "DOWN" for control buttons on his jet pack.) Frequently Tristram Coffin is obviously standing upright, toes pointing straight ahead of him, while the sky behind him goes hither and yon.  Oddly, this was the best flying effects to come out of those old Republic serials for quite a while .

Onion - yeah and I also liked it when he dove out of the window to fly. He was literally diving from a springboard headfirst out the window..and not UP! lol

(http://www.redboots.net/aos/spring.JPG)




Btw, wasn't there someone else who played superman?



Post Edited (08-12-04 20:21)

Susan wrote:

> Btw, wasn't there someone else who played superman?

George Reeves I believe it was.

Naturally everyone knows George (he always looked more like a wrestler in that getup than superhero).

But I keep having this memory of another Superman show....
I don't remember much about it except he had really dark hair and his chest was bulky, i don't know if it was padded or he wore a sweater instead of spandex...lol

Does anyone remember another b&w superman show?



Post Edited (08-12-04 22:16)

There's an interesting story about his suicide in 1959.

Something along the lines of him supposedly dating Toni Mannix, the wife of the head MGM executive at the time.
Some people think he may actually have been murdered but others think it's suicide.

(http://www.megspace.com/entertainment/supermancentral/george/bigimages/gr.jpg)

Go  HERE (http://www.megspace.com/entertainment/supermancentral/george.html) to read more about it.

 This site (http://www.jimnolt.com/cal.htm) has more detailed info.



Post Edited (08-12-04 22:16)

How about SGT. KABUKIMAN, NYPD, with the clearly visible cable holding him up.

Anyone here seen the old Captain Marvel serial? They would string up a line and send a dummy sliding along a wire . It probably looked pretty neat back in the day it was made because he would appear to be following cars or just flying overhead.  The goofy part was that the dummy was so obvious. I think they used the same effect for Commando Cody (bullet headed rocket guy).

In the Superman serial Kirk Alyn turned into a cartoon once he was airborne.

Trivia: Kirk Alyn appears in Superman 1 on the train with Noel Neill (Lois Lane from the 50's).



Post Edited (08-13-04 11:59)

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU TREK!

I knew i had seen another superman in B&W besides george reeves. Kirk Alyn, wasn't he a babyface!

I would say Handyman from In Living Color was the worst flying effects ever...but then again, Tim Curry's flying fx part as the Grand Warlock in the Worst Witch is HORRIBLE

Commando Cody aka Punkin boy!
Crow : "Nipple, Nipple and flyyy!"
Liked him better as "Rocket Jock" in J-MEN FOREVER!
"Naughty, naughty, bad polluter, bring you down with my ray shooter!"
"My shoes are on Fiiiire!"
After a landing "Ow, my arches!"

loyal1:

Never understimate the power of the handicapped!

"Hire the handicapped.
 They work cheap and they're fun to watch"

I know it looked bad intentionally, but the dream sequence in "The Big Lebowski" looked pretty horrible.

Just thought of another...

the flying bikes in Battlestar Galatica 1980 (the series when they reach Earth). Man that rear projection was lousy!!!

I haven't seen Galactica 1980 since 1980, so I still remember the flying effects as really cool. Now I'm curious to take another look, except that I remember the stories, characters and everything else to be crappy enough to deter me.

Although, I vaguely remember a time travel episode with Nazis that wasn't too bad. Wish I could remember some details. Something about giving advanced rocket technology to the Krauts.

"Galactica 1980" was from a time in my youth when anything sci-fi related was cool

I know exactly what you mean.

It's definitely the flying zombie head in the refrigerator from Zombi 3 (I love that thing though)

Julian Sands zipping around in "Warlock" is no thing of fx beauty

Galatica 1980....
To the human brain, what a steel wire brush is to your privet parts.
And another reason i hate time travel stories! Aghh!



Post Edited (08-19-04 09:43)

I have an indie release called "The Necro Files". It's one of the sickest movies I've ever seen, but it has the mother of all bad flying scenes. In the movie some Satanists sacrifice a baby to raise a serial killer/rapist. He comes back to life to do his thing, but the baby also comes back to life for revenge. Now this baby is a naked baby doll. And I mean like a plastic pink baby doll where you can even see where the arms, legs and head are attached. Even has that funky shag rug like hair. Anyway, the baby flies to attack it's victims. You can see the fishing line they are using and in three, count em, three, scenes you can see the tip of the fishing pole. And when this baby flies, it keeps turning around like a windcatcher in the wind. It's hilarious.

I remember this show, Forever Knight.  Why I think it has the worst flying FX, because there was no real flying.  The only "flying" you will see is when (I forgot the actor's name) Nic Knight, the vampire cop, points his head skywards, the camera shoots up in the air, you see a bird's eye view of the city, then cut to another part of the city and he jumps down to "land".
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