21 Stunningly Cheap (Very Bad) Special Effects
These moviemakers obviously didn't go to the Michael Bay Film Institute.
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If Summer blockbusters are any indication, the acting in a movie can be completely wooden so long as the special effects threaten to literally blow the skin of the audience's meat sacks.
Our readers compiled a list of movies that obviously missed that memo, and wasted their budgets on who knows what. The worst offender is below, but first the runners-up ...
![Cool, a video game boss from Resident Evil? No... this poorly animated creature is one of the primary antagonists in: T HE MUMmy RETURNS A 2001 movie](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/8/299558.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKED.COM Star Trek: The Motion Picture Star Trek: The wrath of Khan Need a new space station? Spent all your budget on chest wax for Ricardo Montal](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/0/299620.jpg?v=1)
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![The production company making the $80 million sci-fi epic A Sound of Thunder went bankrupt before filming was completed. With no money left, the filmm](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/2/299622.jpg?v=1)
![CRAGKED CONT DIRECTOR PHIL TUCKER HAD ORIGINALLY 3D PLANNED FOR THERE TO BE A ROBOT VILLAIN IN ROBOT MONSTER. WHEN USE OF THE ROBOT COSTUME THEY WANTE](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/6/299616.jpg?v=1)
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![The Salkinds. producers of the first three Superman movies. sold the rights to these guys... CANNONGROUP INC Poduotion ...who slashed the budget for S](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/1/2/299612.jpg?v=1)
![ISLAND TRANEFORME! FORMERS DARK DF THE m on Michael Bay used footage from his 2005 movie The Island in Transformers 3. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/0/6/299606.jpg?v=1)
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![CRACKED CO Transformers Pearl Harbor Michael Bay used the same footage of the aircraft carrier from Pearl Harbor (2001) in Transformers (2007).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/8/4/299584.jpg?v=1)
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![GH STBUSTERSI II It's just so obviously a person painted green and wearing a Liberty costume. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/8/0/299580.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKED COM Remember this explosion from Hulk?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/7/8/299578.jpg?v=1)
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![Remember the De-evolution gun from this train wreck Of a film? T SACIHHOPE SUPER NINTENDO APRTOIF Hmmmm, wonder why it looks SO familiar? CRACKEDcO](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/7/0/299570.jpg?v=1)
![4 The thing they never tell you about Freddy Krueger: He turns you into a mannequin before killing you. Or at least he did with this lady.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/6/6/299566.jpg?v=1)
![In the famous wounded soldier sequence of Gone With the Wind, a mini version of Atlanta built was However, due to a shortage of extras half of the sol](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/6/299556.jpg?v=1)
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![This thing in Alien RROGB Mr. Fusion in Back to the Future COFFEE GRINDER *ees LUONE CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/6/0/299560.jpg?v=1)