History SpecialEffectFailure / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/AttackOfTheEyeCreatures'' has so many failures that when it's featured on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Joel and the 'Bots catalogue a thorough list of them as evidence that the filmmakers ''"just didn't care!"'' Not the least of which is a night scene that is clearly filmed in broad daylight. As Tom Servo puts it, "You couldn't have picked a ''nicer'' day to film a night sequence!"

* None of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' films have had much luck in this department.
** The [[Film/TheFantasticFour 1994 film's]] effects are laughable. They consist of cheap optical effects, awkward attempts to use poles to simulate the stretching abilities of Reed, heavy use of stock footage, and a Human Torch that came straight out of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. Subverted with the Thing, who is actually rather convincing, despite being a [[PeopleInRubberSuits rubber suit creature]]. This ''is'' understandable, as the film was made on a paltry 1.4 million budget and was never meant to be released anyway.
** The [[Film/FantasticFour2005 films]] released in 2005 and 2007 fare a little better compared to the others, but it's still pretty obvious they hadn't gotten Reed's stretching abilities down. Silver Surfer in the [[Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer second film]] wavers between a cheap rubber suit, or a cheap clone of [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay the T-1000]]. The costume used for The Thing is an interesting case, as it looks decent in the first film, but looks a little more rubbery in the second.
** The [[Film/FantasticFour2015 2015 film]] has it worst:

* ''Film/CarryOnCleo'':
** When Cleopatra is having her bath, Creator/AmandaBarrie can briefly be seen wearing a bikini bottom.
** The table Cleopatra rolls into collapses before she hits it.

*** [[spoiler: All the scenes in the Chronobowl were clearly shot against ChromaKey, with the CGI doubles of past DC characters in the film's finale being the worst example. The textures have been compared to models from a UsefulNotes/Playstation3 game.]]

* In ''Film/Hellboy2019'', when Hellboy comes to on the floor of the elevator that takes him down to [[spoiler:Baba Yaga's realm]], his horn stumps can be seen moving on his forehead when they briefly scrape along the floor, revealing them as the glued-on prosthetics they are. The film received much flak for its CGI monster effects, with many comparing them to creatures from a UsefulNotes/Playstation2 game.

* The CGI effects for the monkeys from ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' haven't aged well, they look like they came from a UsefulNotes/PlayStation game with their fur not looking like it was finished rendering and their cartoonish faces.

*** There is a CGI waterfall with some terrible fluid effects that look like they came from a UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 game; even worse when they try to make it speak.

* ''Film/MadameWeb2024'':
** Many viewers have pointed out that Ezekiel's lines are overdubbed, [[HongKongDub but very poorly]], as the lines frequently don't sync up to his mouth movements and sometimes even continue when his mouth isn't moving at all. While this would be forgivable if the movie's dialogue was originally in another language, the movie was entirely English to begin with. This suggests the use of automated dialogue replacement (a common trait of films that have undergone heavy rewrites), but due to the lack of FilmingForEasyDub, it becomes very evident.
** There's some very choppy editing in the final confrontation. Ezekiel bursts through the building roof and is standing right in front of Julia, ready to strike - then seconds later is next to Cassie, somehow unmasked.

** Many viewers have pointed out that Ezekiel's lines are overdubbed, [[HongKongDub but very poorly]], as the lines frequently don't sync up to his mouth movements and sometimes even continue when his mouth isn't moving at all. While this would be forgivable if the movie's dialogue was originally in another language, the movie was entirely English to begin with. This suggests the use of ADR (a common trait of films that have undergone heavy rewrites), but due to the lack of FilmingForEasyDub, it becomes very evident.

** Many viewers have pointed out that Ezekiel's lines are overdubbed, [[HongKongDub but very poorly]], as the lines frequently don't sync up to his mouth movements and sometimes even continue when his mouth isn't moving at all. While this would be forgivable if the movie's dialogue was originally in another language, the movie was entirely English to begin with.

* ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002: Even in 2002, computer graphics weren't ''quite'' there in rendering a cartoony character like Scooby in live action, and could only go as far as giving his exaggerated design hyper realistic features. Even for an $80 million feature film, all of the CGI characters look more like something out of a [=PS1=] game. To give one an idea of just how much technology has advanced since, the two ''made-for-TV prequels'', released towards the end of the decade, had better CGI.

* ''Film/SpiceWorld'': When the film producers are discussing the idea of the Spice Bus flying over the half-open Tower Bridge, a clearly fake model of the bridge and bus is used, with the comment that it's not necessarily expensive. This is not actually a special effects failure, as the poor "special effects" is obviously the joke.

* ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005'' has, at one point, our hero shoot a possessed woman that's attacking an ally from behind. The shot is CGI and misses her by a good four feet. The sad part is that someone had to add that shot in during post-production... and not give a shit that it comes nowhere near hitting her.

* ''Film/{{Inception}}'' normally averts this, having won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. The effects in the film are almost entirely spellbinding and very well executed -- except for one tiny instance when Arthur sends the elevator flying up to initiate a kick, and the passengers floating inside thud down to the floor in a very artificial manner.