a top ten list from the sci fi uk magazine sfx, at least they chose particular parts rather than just listing the films
1 A sound of thunder 2005: entire film
2 King Kong 2005: bronto stampede & pole-vaulting
3 die another day 2002: surf scene
4 spider-man 2002: spidey swinging
5 harry potter and the philosopher's stone 2001: quidditch players/ troll attack
6 return of the king 2003: legolas and the mumak
7 Indiana jone and the KOTCS 2008: gasping gophers & jungle monkeys
8 I am legend 2007: headbutting zombies
9 star wars a new hope 1997: young jabba
10 Blade 2 2002: various fights
some i'm not sure about, other i'm not surprised are on the list even del toro hates the cgi in blade 2, and legend was panned from the get go
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SOmetimes you wonder if people really researched stuff true. I mean yes i can understand if your comparing similar movies in terms of CGI scale but really how the heck can you compare a movie with a budget lower then 100 million to something like POTC which had budgets of over 200 million and expect the same type of CG quality. There is bound to be flaws.
However at the same time the director can be blamed for wanting too much and having too little.
Blade 2 is a prime example of that.
1 A sound of thunder 2005: entire film
I agree with this. Really horrible horrible VFX
2 King Kong 2005: bronto stampede & pole-vaulting
Hmm. Yes the pole vaulting stuff looked weightless but it's pretty hard to give CG characters weight when they're performing unnatural movies.
Then again they had a similar move in POTC 2 with Jack Sparow on cannibal island and it worked out well.
3 die another day 2002: surf scene
James Bond surfing. Somewhere Albert Broccoli is rolling in his grave
4 spider-man 2002: spidey swinging
Yeah but i can forgive that. I mean really at that point was there a movie like spider-man where you'd have a guy swinging from one end to another ? Plus the budget really wasn't that big enough .
5 harry potter and the philosopher's stone 2001: quidditch players/ troll attack
Too big of a sequence. Too little money
6 return of the king 2003: legolas and the mumak
CG legolas . Again a character doing an unnatural move. No wonder it looked fake
7 Indiana jone and the KOTCS 2008: gasping gophers & jungle monkeys
WEll i thought the gophers looked quite realistic 
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The CG monkey sequence did looked terrible blue screen , as does the fight between SHia and Cate Blanchett. Given the enormous budget and the fact that it's ILM makes alot of people wonder why this scene looks so fake.
MY guess would be that the sequence was either added at the last minute or there really wasn't enough post. prod time.
Spielberg is someone who shoots fast but at the same time he really takes his time creating VFX. Minority Report for example had a post.prod. period longer then a year. The result shows. THE VFX are extremely well done.
8 I am legend 2007: headbutting zombies
Aah yes I AM LEGEND. Often mentioned as a movie with terrible CGI. I read the CInefex article and the reason why they went with CG zombies is because they wanted to the characters to do stuff that would've otherwise been too extreme for stunt performers to do. And it's again a tricky balance to get right. Giving the characters weight while making all these unnatural movements look natural. A character can look very realistic as a stll character but the moment that character starts moving , it'll begin to look fake
9 star wars a new hope 1997: young jabba
And Jabba as puppets looks realistic .
And really we're talking of '97 technology here
10 Blade 2 2002: various fights
Blade 2 is a perfect example of the director wanting to do all these cool things but he really has very little money to spend.
THen comes the choice. Shoot the scene without all these CG moves or with the moves. Guillermo choose the latter.
But really does anyone expect a movie with a budget of 80 million to have CG humans to look realistic. Movies like Superman and Spiderman cost 200 million and even with that money and years of technology , they're still struggling.
IMO i think Blade 2 doesn't need to be on this list 
