Worst/Hated use of CGI in movies

[Octoberist]

Inspired by this article on slashfilm.com

What are your most hated use of CGI in movie history? For example, the bad greenscreen in Baz Lurmann's 'Australia' was awful in an otherwise beautifully made film.

And please don't be so absoulte to condemn CGI because it CAN be useful tool in the right hands,(JJ Abram's Star Trek, Chris Nolan's Batman films,etc). So please, keep it civil and open minded.

 

[xwolverine2]

spiderman3...
i remember a simple shot of peter jumping out the window and swinging away.

there was absolutely no reason why that couldnt be a human stunt double...
it looked terrible too.

thats how you waste 300mil

 

[Octoberist]

Here's more examples:

SPIDER-MAN 2

I love Spider-Man 2 right?

But I didn't understand why they had to add those fake looking helicopters at the end of the movie. Spidey looked fine, and then from out of no where, these awful things appear. It didn't ruin the movie for me, but I was like whaa?

DAREDEVIL

There was that fight scene in the church in the end that had bad greenscreen and bad digital stunt doubles. Couldn't they just built a set and use real stunt men, only using CGI when it's needed?

 

[DarkKnight88]

 

[GhostPoet]

The entire Val Helsing film. Every scene.
:P

 

[Ziggyman]

Wolvie's claws, bathroom scene...You know it!

 

[superhero]

I awalys thought chrionels of riddck was kind of bad.

 

[Wiseman]

Spawn had the worst cgi for a film that was released in theaters I've ever seen,
Anaconda was a close second

 

[Ziggyman]

First Mark III suit up scene when the helmet goes on...

 

[chaseter]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

- for a film with such a huge budget and blockbuster summer treatment, the claws, the most iconic part of Wolverine, looked incredibly fake and horrible.

 

[Doomed_hero]

Vaders cape at end of Episode 3, eh not needed at all.

 

[xwolverine2]

i know it was low budget but still...
A Sound Of Thunder

even the normal "futuristic" city shots were nasty..terrible greenscreen

 

[batmop]

Spiderman 3, certain sequences of Sandman and Venom were insulting. Also some of the Spidey swinging and New York skyline scenes were done pretty bad.

The Wolverine movie had some really bad CGI, as did also X-Men 3 to some extent.

This is off the top of my head, there are many more movies with bad CGI.

 

[Sentinel X]

i know it was low budget but still...
A Sound Of Thunder

even the normal "futuristic" city shots were nasty..terrible greenscreen

King Kong and Godzilla had a baby?



My pick would go to Spider-man 1 final battle where they had Green Goblin jump off a glider....come on, how hard is it for you to make a stunt man jump off a glider?

 

[MiniBond]

the infamous Die Another Day kitesurf scene.......

O
M
G


how can one manage to do such bad cgi in 2002 is beyond me !

 

[xwolverine2]

King Kong and Godzilla had a baby?



My pick would go to Spider-man 1 final battle where they had Green Goblin jump off a glider....come on, how hard is it for you to make a stunt man jump off a glider?

one of the many mutatedly fake spy kids2-like creatures.

 

[batmop]

the infamous Die Another Day kitesurf scene.......

O
M
G


how can one manage to do such bad cgi in 2002 is beyond me !

Thanks for reminding me. Die Another Day had some particularly horrible CGI.

 

[xwolverine2]

 

[EdRyder]

Here's more examples:

SPIDER-MAN 2

I love Spider-Man 2 right?

But I didn't understand why they had to add those fake looking helicopters at the end of the movie. Spidey looked fine, and then from out of no where, these awful things appear. It didn't ruin the movie for me, but I was like whaa?

Reminds me of Day the Earth Stood Stills CG Helicopters.They stuck out like a sore thumb.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Pretty much all of the CGI in Phantom Menace was crap.

Wolverines claws in the bathroom.

THe Queen Alien in AvP

 

[<(o_o)>]

Spawn had the worst cgi for a film that was released in theaters I've ever seen,
Anaconda was a close second

I thought Spawn was considered an advancement in cgi effects back in the day it first came out.

I think Species had pretty bad cgi but back in those days cgi wasn't as advanced as it is now.

Spidey looked to much like a puppet in some of the scenes in Spider-Man 1.

Hulk sometimes looked like plastic in The Incredible Hulk.

The flying Delorian in Back To The Future.

The Star Wars prequels, had some good cgi & they had some bad cgi but they were all cgi overkill.

 

[Nivek]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

- for a film with such a huge budget and blockbuster summer treatment, the claws, the most iconic part of Wolverine, looked incredibly fake and horrible.

As far as recent films, I would have to agree.

All, time, the first Species film. The suit/ puppet and CG creation looked like two different creatures.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Jar Jar Binks was annoying and a bad character... but he certainly wasn't bad CGI. Especially back in 1999. Fault the movie for many things but CGI wasn't among them.

 

[thejon93]

A bunch from 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' (Washroom-Claws, The "Don't Wave Your Arms While Falling, Hugh!" Scene, just to name a few), the first appearance of Hulk from 'Hulk', 'Attack of the Clones' (the way the whole movie was filmed digitally was a huge mistake, watching it in a regular theatre looked like garbage and made some of the CG-sequences look like crap), that about all I can think of (for now).

 

[xwolverine2]

Jar Jar Binks was annoying and a bad character... but he certainly wasn't bad CGI. Especially back in 1999. Fault the movie for many things but CGI wasn't among them.

the thread titled is "worst use of cgi"
this is one of them sir...lol