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08-17-2006, 09:43 PM
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Re: Worst use of CGI in a movie?
I would like to add a vote for "The Mummy Returns". I'll never forget the "what the hell?" look on the face on the friend I was watching the movie with when The Rock showed up at the end as a huge half human half scorpion. He looked like a freaking video game character!
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08-17-2006, 10:07 PM
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Re: Worst use of CGI in a movie?
Man you guys are WAYYYYY off. No mention of spawns Malebolgia ?!
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08-17-2006, 10:18 PM
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Re: Worst use of CGI in a movie?
CGI Clonetroopers.
Don't get me wrong, much of the cgi is top notch, but the fact that they were using cgi to animate what are supposed to be real people in armour, it comes across as blatanly obvious and awkward looking in many scenes. The worst being when you actually see them without helmets. Uggh!
I would have given anything for them to have been real.
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08-17-2006, 11:11 PM
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Re: Worst use of CGI in a movie?
I know its an older movie, but American Werewolf in Paris had the worst CGI werewolf fight. In a dirt floor cave, 2 CGI werewolves couldnt even mess up the dirt when they were fighting. The cave looked like a bright sunny studio lock off to boot.
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08-18-2006, 12:06 AM
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Re: Worst use of CGI in a movie?
The plane crash at the end of Air Force One.
Blawp (!!) in Lost in Space
Pretty much everything in The Mummy Returns
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08-18-2006, 12:16 AM
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Re: Worst use of CGI in a movie?
Anyway, "The Mummy Returns" is indeed pretty bad. "Jason X" had some bad CGI too. The aforementioned fight scene in Blade 2 always reminded me of watching someone play Mortal Kombat at an arcade, especially those long shots.
On the other hand, I was just watching a bit of Jurrasic Park the other day and was commenting on how well the CGI holds up, given its age. No doubt it would look better if done today, but it's still good.
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08-18-2006, 12:58 AM
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Re: Worst use of CGI in a movie?
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08-18-2006, 01:04 AM
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Re: Worst use of CGI in a movie?
It's been mentioned, but I think it bears repeating: The Mummy Returns has the worst CGI effects work I personally have ever seen, especially the above-referenced scorpion creature. And I'm sorry but it does look like a playstation game.
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08-18-2006, 01:09 AM
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On the other hand, I was just watching a bit of Jurrasic Park the other day and was commenting on how well the CGI holds up, given its age. No doubt it would look better if done today, but it's still good.
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Indeed. The CG dinosaurs really should look terrible by today's standards, but they don't. Since it was a groundbreaker in that realm, they clearly worked way overtime to make sure the footage would hold up, and it does!
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08-18-2006, 01:58 AM
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It's been mentioned, but I think it bears repeating: The Mummy Returns has the worst CGI effects work I personally have ever seen, especially the above-referenced scorpion creature. And I'm sorry but it does look like a playstation game.
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I believe it was ILM's work, but they were rushed and didn't have nearly enough time to work on it with Jurassic Park 3 coming out later in the summer.
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08-18-2006, 02:26 AM
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Re: Worst use of CGI in a movie?
The whole 'animality' parts and most of the rest of Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. I don't even think it is laughably bad.
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08-18-2006, 04:09 AM
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Re: Worst use of CGI in a movie?
Though I agree that the Scorpion thingamabob in The Mummy Returns looked horrible, I think it should be noted that it was rushed work. I cant remember the details, but I remember reading that a last minute change by the director combined with running out of time resulted in the entire sequence having to be done very quickly. i belive the original idea was to use CG to do the creatures body but they wanted to film The Rock's real face with live action footage and composite that onto the CG creature, but they didnt have time to do so. Hence the rushed, bad CG work we saw.
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