10 Terrible Movies That Were Actually Groundbreaking
9. Jason X Was The First Fully Digitally Edited Movie
Jason X certainly has its defenders because, let's be honest, a Jason-in-space movie can't be all bad, but c'mon - in every way that matters, it's a dreadful film from its direction through to its writing, acting, and visual effects.
There is something of an untold history about the film, though, that came to light in recent times courtesy of Colin Cunningham, a VFX artist who worked on it.
On the podcast "No Such Thing As A Bad Movie," Cunningham revealed that Jason X was actually the first Hollywood movie to be fully digitally colour-graded, with the film footage being scanned into what's now called a digital intermediate, allowing all editing and colour work to happen without the film negative ever being touched.
Though the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? is often credited with this honour, this is only because Jason X spent almost two years sitting on a studio shelf before being released in the U.S.
In production terms, the two movies were basically neck-and-neck, but in Jason X's case, it went beyond mere digital colour work to also have its effects and editing completed entirely on computers.