Top Ten Cheesiest Digital Worlds
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Top Ten Cheesiest Digital Worlds

Not all movies can be Avatar. How would you rank these flicks' digital effects?

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1 The Last Starfighter
From the minute Centauri's spaceship is seen careering through space, you know you're in for some spectacularly retro graphics. 59 309
2 The Mask
As the hyperactive superhero, Jim Carrey makes his body bounce against walls and spin like a tornado, and it's all a bit hokey. 53 359
3 Tron
Today, the very same graphics that once wowed critics look like something a 10-year-old could whip up on an iMac. 39 355
4 Van Helsing
Whether it's unconvincing fanged beasties or Gothic buildings, the digital work in this seedy underworld is a major turnoff. 11 347
5 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
State-of-the-art technology is not always tantamount to perfection, as the soulless CG effects in this flick go to show. 10 356
6 Hulk
The Hulk looks ridiculous in this film. No offense to Eric Bana, who makes a fine Bruce Banner -- it's all in the lame effects. 7 351
7 The Lawnmower Man
The nadir of this pic's cheesiness arrives when its star has virtual sex with his girlfriend and their nude CG figures writhe together in the void. -38 288
8 Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
This pic's silly portal in the doomsday skies might have inspired more fear if it didn't look like something off the Syfy channel. -49 291
9 The Lovely Bones
There's something so cornball about the surreal look that Peter Jackson picked for his version of purgatory. -66 266
10 Ghost in the Machine
This alt world is conveyed as a hodgepodge of hokey digital imagery, from goofy fractals to wire-frame figures. -74 246