Worst Visual Effects in the Trilogy

I think the worst visual effects in the entire trilogy was the explosion of the Hoth power generator. Even in the Special Edition, they failed to fix the horrible effects.

Thoughts?

Other bad effects scenes?

the vader/obi-wan duel in episode 4

I noticed something with that duel too. I mean, I love ALL the Star Wars special effects and, truthfully, don't really know enough about visual effects to judge them, but at points in that duel the lightsabers look tacky. But the duel itself ROCKS!!

definitly the rancor scene
and imho, the effects in the SEs were still horrible (look at Luke and OB1 entering Mos Eisley, that was a big pile of poodoo)

Rancor most definately.

Originally posted by NateTheGreat
I think the worst visual effects in the entire trilogy was the explosion of the Hoth power generator. Even in the Special Edition, they failed to fix the horrible effects.

Thoughts?

Other bad effects scenes?

That explosion was still far better than the explosion of amidala's ship when everyone goes down the ramp at the beginning of ep II. That realy sucked the way they all were thrown and how the fire looked.

Rancor??

The rancor aint that bad.

Originally posted by Lyn
Rancor??

and yes, it's horrible, one of the worse blue-screens around

in TESB when luke is tracing vader and each time he moves forward the doors close...the doors come to life so quickly so it makes it unbelieveable

Thats because vader uses the force. They have to close quickly otherwise it would not be right. It wouldnt be much of a trap would it. It was intended to be a surprising/unexpected to make us jump a bit.

you sure it was the force? i just though the ugnaughts (sp?) were waiting in a control room and hitting the switches...slowly leading luke towards vader

There is no reason I can see to think that was the Force!

I go Rancor as well.

Well Vader tells his officer, to make sure that skywalker finds his way here. Here being the freezing chamber. I think that when Luke approached and the doors closed right on artoos dome tells you that vader didnt want to be interrupted and therefore used the force to block out artoo.
In addition to that, when Luke goes up the small lift, the lights turn on suddenly to reveal vader waiting for him. The lights turn on because vader turned on himself thus using the force, who else would of done it. As he did to close the doors. I realy dont think ugnaughts would get involved there.

I think that when Luke (having had his hand cut off) jumps off the walkway it looks really terrible when he's falling.

Originally posted by yerssot
the big ugly thing in ROTJ that wants to eat Luke

and yes, it's horrible, one of the worse blue-screens around

Ohh...that thing. Yeah...

Originally posted by Lord Shadow Z
I think that when Luke (having had his hand cut off) jumps off the walkway it looks really terrible when he's falling.

Yeah, I agree. That bit does look odd.

Originally posted by Dirty Vader
That explosion was still far better than the explosion of amidala's ship when everyone goes down the ramp at the beginning of ep II. That realy sucked the way they all were thrown and how the fire looked.

You've got to be joking. You must be completely blind if you think the explosion at the beginning of EII was worse than the explosion of the field generator. The generator was a FLAT explosion on a 3D landscape. The explosion of the ship, on the other hand, actually interacted with the environment.

I will admit, though, that the people leaving the ship would have been far more mangled than they were had it been real.

But I digress. I have 2 entries for "worst effect in a star wars movie".

1. The explosion of one of the x-wing fighters flying into the death star during the battle of Yavin. It's the one that Luke sees as he looks out of his ship, right before he goes into the trench. It just looked like a plastic prop with a flashpot.

2. [TIE]1.Luke's severed hand, and 2. Vader's severed hand. They both looked so painfully obvious that the arms of their costumes were stretched by their hands being tucked inside. Especially with Vader, right after he throws the emperor into the pit. As he rests on the railing, you can see his wrist bending inside his sleeve, even though his hand is supposed to severed at about the wrist.

It's really amazing what computers have done with special effects in movies.

Cornponious (kuntry kok)

I thought that for the time era, E4-6 were done amazingly well. Now Lucas uses too much CGI and it's kinda ruining the Star Wars legacy. Lets see what he can do with Episode 3...

oh well, nothing is perfect huh 😉