Worst use of CGI in a movie?

Rob_Walton · 08-17-2006, 02:52 AM

There's little more jarring than seeing some ropey looking CGI to knock you out of the film you're watching. Works a charm every time, and tends to take quite a while to settle back in to whatever you were watching. So what are the worst offenders you can think of? There must be plenty of candidates, so lets hear the culprits' names.

Last night Along Came a Spider was player on Film4 so I gave it a look. The opening scenes show a sting opperation going wrong, with Morgan Freeman's female partner being killed in a car crash over a dam. Frankly the crash CGI was some of the dodgyest looking work I've seen in quite some time: dodgy enough to inspire this thread. Anyone else laugh at the unreality of that crash?

Michael Hein · 08-17-2006, 03:03 AM

One movie that has always stuck out is when Sanke Plissken is surfing on that big wave in Escape from LA. So fucking stupid I still think of it sometimes 10 years later.

Holadem · 08-17-2006, 06:11 AM

Speaking of surfing, Die Another Day comes to mind.

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clayton b · 08-17-2006, 07:07 AM

I found the CGI in The Mummy Returns pretty distracting.

Daniel-M · 08-17-2006, 07:27 AM

the stampede in King kong took me out of the movie and i just couldn't get into it again

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Jerome Grate · 08-17-2006, 09:32 AM

I was watching Blade II last night and the scene when he's fighting the two vampires trying to give him a message was pretty lame, and don't forget Matrix revolutions with Neo fighting hundred's of Agent Smiths that was pretty bad too.

Nicholas Martin · 08-17-2006, 09:50 AM

Jumanji came to mind at first, but then I found out that the admittedly 'fake' looking animals and animation were intentionally designed that way, to reflect the original book illustrations.

For years, I thought they were terrible.

Jonathan Perregaux · 08-17-2006, 10:14 AM

The Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns is the most wretched example I can think of. The original Spider-Man and his fake-looking antics doesn't hold up very well either.

LarryDavenport · 08-17-2006, 10:26 AM

The "Space Monkey" in Lost In Space.

Bill GrandPre · 08-17-2006, 10:39 AM

The CGI monster in the end of "Resident Evil" is just really poor work. It's literally of the same approximate technical quality of something you would find in the original "Resident Evil" game and you can't tell me they were actually going for something that looked outdated and fake.

Probably the worst example of modern CGI is the added gore in the "Alien vs. Predator" Unrated cut. It's just laughable. It looks like someone spent 5 minutes using some 10-year-old software. The blood looks fake & plasticy and it's movements don't move properly in regards to the bleeding character in question, the worst example being when the annoying French chick character's chest bursts. She's writing all around and the blood stain essentially "floats" around her chest.

The ending of the original "Blade" also has some pretty horrendous CGI but I think you can attribute that to a combination of the time the film was made and the budget. CGI was a lot more expensive back in '98.