Worst flying special effects.

[daveblackeye15]

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?



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[Susan]

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.

[JohnL]

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.

[AndyC]

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."



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[Mitch McAfee]

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?

[onionhead]

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 .

[Susan]

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






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



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

[Ash]

Susan wrote:

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

George Reeves I believe it was.

[Susan]

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)

[Ash]

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.



Go HERE to read more about it.

This site has more detailed info.



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[The Burgomaster]

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

[trekgeezer]

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)

[Susan]

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!

[loyal1]

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

[Flangepart]

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!"