But At What Cost? (December 20, 1999)

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Well, it looks like Wing Commander earned a few awards afterall! In fact, it made scifi.ign.com's Best Movies of 1999 list! Why the 'Best Movies' list gives awards for 'Worst Picture' and 'Worst Special Effects' is beyond me... Thanks for finding this, JediKTim!

Worst Picture$27 million, low-budget special effects, and two leading men who's biggest roles have been the murderer in Scream and the full-eyed hero of She's All That. Built on one set with special effects by a studio that worked on PCs, everybody expected this movie to underperform, and it did, big time. There's a generic good humans vs. evil cats storyline and when "It's too big!" is the most exciting line of the entire movie, you know it's got problems.Worst Special EffectsWing Commander racks up another big turkey in the special effects department. Although the computer-generated effects are adequate enough to give The Last Starfighter a run for its money, it's the Kilrathi that take the prize. After a tense boarding party landing, these vicious, catlike aliens turn out to be giant foam rubber puppets that wouldn't look out of place at Disneyland. Yeesh.

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Original update published on December 20, 1999