Worst special effects ever seen in a big-budget production
It has my vote. What say you?
Hmm that's a good question, and I'm not entirely sure. I think all the composite shorts are universally terrible. But the mutated guilds navigator is a great practical effect. Some of it's uses by Lynch strike me as rather odd and poorly devised...but otherwise, I'm still enthralled by that thing.
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I have to respectfully disagree with you about the guild navigator. Though the concept was slightly interesting (like the nose or mouth or whatever it was that exhaled spice gas) I found the execution subpar. It looked like a rubber puppet with somewhat movable arms, nothing more. The Eraserhead baby was far more expressive. In fact, all the effects in Eraserhead were vastly superior (like the stop-motion animation of the worm dancing around and opening its mouth) -- and cost an infinitesimal fraction of those in Dune.
I will agree that the Eraserhead baby was a vastly superior effect. 90% of the time it feels like a real thing.
The Guild navigator is an impressive and unique spectacle. But it is not always shot in ways that complement the effect, and frequently it looks like a rubber puppet, you're right. And it's weird vagina mouth never looks convincing.
I think had it been shot with a little lower lighting, and not stretching it quite as much with the mouth effects or that ridiculous scene where it "folds space" Like what the *beep* was that? What were they thinking?!
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Yeah, that space-folding scene was utterly pathetic. And it could have been a highlight of the movie, as the whole concept was ripe for unbridled creativity. Extremely disappointing.
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Amen!
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