Worst Visual Effects in the Trilogy

The 'creature effects' in ROTJ annoyed me a bit.

That elephant thing looked like a stuffed animal. I think I saw the stitching...

The ATST's in the Endor Sequence
You could see where they had cut and pasted the film together

Also if you knotice the lightsabers never ignight they are either on or of no ignighting animation or whatever

Actually one thing i can never understand in the SW Trilogy, much as i love it. Is when luke is falling how does he mysteriously curve towards the side and land perfectly in one of those tubes, without exploding in a chunk of Hamill giblets rather miraclous no?

it's the will of the force 😉

Errr, I think it was implicit that those things had suction, Jerico.

And tpt, you are wrong about the sabre ignition. There is sometimes animation. I don't think any true fan should forget Obi-Wan's blade lengthening when activated in response to seeing Vader on the Death Star

Frame anlysis of sabre on/off times in the Original Trilogy:

Anakin's sabre
0 frames ON - at Ben's hut
0 frames OFF - on the Falcon
0 frames OFF - on the Falcon
0 frames ON - on the Falcon
0 frames ON - in the snow cave
7 frames ON - under the AT-AT
7 frames OFF - under the AT-AT
0 frames ON - in Yoda's cave (SLOMO)
0 frames ON - at Bespin
16 frames ON - at Bespin
0 frames ON - at Bespin
special events:
sabre lost - STILL ON in flight - lands OFF
sabre called to hand - ACTIVATED in flight!
sabre ON when hand cut off - deactivates in 0 frames shortly afterwards

Luke's sabre:
6 frames ON - sail barge
5 frames ON - Endor forest
7 frames ON - test by Vader
8 frames OFF - test by Vader
0 frames ON - in Emperor's throne room
6 frames OFF - in Emperor's throne room
0 frames ON - in Emperor's throne room
0 frames ON - in Emperor's throne room
8 frames OFF - in Emperor's throne room

Kenobi's sabre
0 frames ON - in the cantina
18 frames ON - on the DeathStar
0 frames OFF - on the Death Star

Vader's sabre
20 frames ON - at Bespin
0 frames ON - at Bespin
0 frames ON - at Bespin
0 frames ON - in Emperors throne room
6 frames ON - in Emperors throne room SOUND ONLY
special events:
sabre thrown - stays ON in flight - turned back ON after retrieval

Good old Bob Brown...

Yet when he was in the tube we didnt see any suction at all, i guess it detects objects that are falling then eh?

Or it is periodic. It is spectacularly unimportant.

Oh im afraid i must disagree Ushgarak 😄

Well I was just going off of memory.
I don't even own the original trilogy 😮

why is this still open? it's crystal clear, in the OT (without SE) it's the rancor, hands down (or almost hands down)
and with the SE it has competition with those scenes while entering Mos Eisley (the words "terrible FX" are very mildly placed)
not sabre ignition 😛

I don't like the space battle shots in ANH, Particularly with the TIE fighters, you can see a "cutout" shape round them where they've been superimposed. Having said that, on a plus side, theres a scene in ROTJ during the speederbike chase when Luke and a scouttrooper bank round a corner and it looks so amazingly real.

Luke's light saber when he is training on the millenium falcon. It is white not blue. Also, when you look at it closely, the effects look all glitchy around the handle. The rancor does look bad. The explosion of the field generator does look crappy, but the view looking out of the AT-AT was changed in the S.E., and the eplosion looked kind of purple and cool. Mostly stuff in A New Hope. When the Falcon is leaving the death star, that looks pretty crappy, and when the ties are attacking, the falcon looks like it is just sitting there. I could go on and on, but all of this could be fixed pretty easily though, so I wouldnt worry.