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Cutting-Edge Special Effects That Already Look Like Garbage

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Hollywood types are constantly giving each other awards for how visually neat-o their effects are. The thing is, those same effects look like cheesy garbage crap after a very short time.

In fact, maybe these were garbage to begin with, and we just never noticed.

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