10 Worst Effects In Sci-Fi Movies
1. Lawnmower Man
Come on, you saw the thumbnail, you knew what you were in for.
Yes, the infamous pseudo-adaptation of the Stephen King story that just barely had something to do with the source material. The early 1990's fest of digital fear-mongering (that somehow roped in Pierce Brosnan as the leading man?!) received less than stellar reviews, both at the time of its release and in the decades to come.
In fact, it was so poorly received that The King himself took legal action against the studio to have his name removed from any released cut of the movie. And this is the same guy that wrote and directed Maximum Overdrive. Yikes.
A lot of the criticism had to do with appalling VFX that the film was dumped with. For a movie that spends half of its time inside of a fully digitised virtual-reality world, the design of everything within that world - from the almost liquid bodies of its occupants to the triangular, rippling meadows - fell completely flat of creating a believable environment for audiences.
Many people might say this was a product of the limits of the technology of the time. But consider that this film came out in 1992 - one year before Jurassic Park. And a whole decade after the original Tron.
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