It's really really bad, I mean wow, even some of the design concepts like the space ship look so shi**y. Did Star Trek own the concept of sleek designed space ships?
shareNot at all. ARMAGEDDON, GODZILLA, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, etc.
shareYeah, the effects look really dated now, but at the time, I think it was considered pretty good.
shareIt's funny, I'm re-watching it, and the SFX are great in certain scenes, and just abysmal in others.
You keep calling me Walter. I don't like you. -Rorschach
It really is all over the map. The cuddly sidekick alien looks atrocious, but I have a feeling it was done at the last minute. Other effects are still pretty impressive. I particularly like how they mixed miniatures and CGI. The crash on the snow planet looked tremendous. The dogfight in the opening scene was horrible - another last-minute addition?
This was a very slick production. I'd actually like to see a director's cut. If they went back to the original Jim Henson muppet instead of the CGI sidekick, it would immediately make the movie more tolerable.
Well, even in 1998 some of the effects looked atrocious. Yet others still look rather cool. I liked all of the scenes in space (except the opening battle with those stupid looking fighter crafts). I hate the design of the ship, but everything else was great. The sequence with the derelict ghost ship was beautiful to watch and still is.
Then, of course, we have nearly all of the horrible Earth scenes, as well as the very bad looking spider monsters, and the hideously looking CGI toon called Blarp. Those effects looked bad in theaters, and they look even worse now.
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I am not a fan. I just happen to enjoy movies. Fans are embarrassing.
Everything was chunky blocky. Movie looked like some 90's Skechers ad
shareThey were terrific at the time and still hold up IMO.
shareI'd say the effects for the ship and the robot looked fine, but the close-ups with the monkey creature (I think Penny named it "Blarp") and the future Dr. Smith as a spider-monster looked plasticky, even back then.
sharepeople were laughing at the cgi even when it played in theatres. it really does have some atrocious cgi
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