Razgriz-Specter
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This scene from the first X-Men movie was laughably awful in 2000.
Didn't the president of Fox nuke the budget literally right before production?
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10 terrible CGI moments in big budget movies
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Didn't the president of Fox nuke the budget literally right before production?
FunkyPajamas
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The Long Kiss Goodnight has scene where (I think) SLJ drives a car out of the back of a truck and a CGI guy dives out of the way. It's terrible. I can't find it though.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Tom Rothman halved the budget right as principal photography was about to start, yes.
George Oscar Bluth II
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There's one part where Thor grabs some Hydra goon and you can see Thor's hands go through him if you look close enough.
Bobby Roberts
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That first X-Men movie plays so oddly now, after seeing where everything winds up in Logan.
Fuckin X-Men crawling all over the Statue of Liberty. Can't even imagine it now.
Fuckin X-Men crawling all over the Statue of Liberty. Can't even imagine it now.
That whole movie is a joke.
I'll give you Episode 2, but Episode 1 has very good cgi, especially for the time. Episode 3 still holds up for the most part in the cgi. There was a vast improvement in those 2 years
Razgriz-Specter
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Thanks.
thatJohann
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OMG is this for real? this looks so bad!
No Daredevil?
I'd probably take 5 and 10 off the list. While not great, there are worse examples out there. Daredevil at no. 5 and Matrix Revolutions at no. 10. Though, Wolverine's claws are a pretty egregious example of bad CGI and probably belong at the top of the list.
Also, this
jack_package_200
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Doomsday
Enchantress in the later part of Suicide Squad.
Dash_Riprock
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I saw it the other day and its showing its age now. The Navi are still great but the great but the creatures (especially the big back panther thing that looks like a walking turd) have all aged badly.
Better watch out Dash, Cameron stans are coming for you now.
Didn't Rothman also do that to X-Men Origins: Wolverine?
Dash_Riprock
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I'm shaking in my Bat-Boots.
And hes never coming back 😧
Familienoberhauptvogel
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I believed Jackson was trolling with it, watching in the theatre.
adamsappel
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As mentioned, The Thing prequel.
Does Public Enemies count as big budget?
The CGI Depp vaulting over a knee high counter is pretty laughable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DYGWsBTZh8
Ill be super disappointed if this didn't make it
That entire movie is visually awful. Was it shot digitally, at some high framerate? It looks like television motion-smoothing. The cinematography in a Mann film is usually excellent, but this looked like a soap opera.
George Oscar Bluth II
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I feel like Captain America: The First Avenger has this to some level but nobody else sees it so I think I'm just going crazy.
I'm gonna admit something. I actually kind of like this movie (I look past what they did to certain characters), even bought the bluray when it went on sale for cheap. But yeah the CGI sucks.
I gave into temptation and downloaded the workprint that leaked before its run in theaters, watched it, figured that this scene (and others) were simply just not complete. Bought a ticket and watched it in theaters and was absolutely shocked that some of the scenes (like this one) showed up looking exactly like they did in the workprint.
Suicide Squad's villain is a human woman with magic powers. It's not a giant monster or robot (though there is a big golem type monster in it), or some fantastical design. It's a human woman wearing a skimpy outfit with a silly looking hat.
So for some inexplicable reason, they made the character CGI. The only part that's live action is a small portion of the actress' face, every other part from the rest of her face and head, to the costume and body, is CGI.
And it looks like shit.
These stills really undersell how crappy it looks in motion. You know when someone like Sunhi does a funny gif where someone's head is put on another body? Those look more convincing. You have this real face floating around this awkward moving video game body.
The dumbest part is obviously that it's not even a complex design, there was no reason to not just have the actress wear a real version of the costume, hell it's less complicated than the other grimier costume the character had earlier in the film, which was all practical.
So for some inexplicable reason, they made the character CGI. The only part that's live action is a small portion of the actress' face, every other part from the rest of her face and head, to the costume and body, is CGI.
And it looks like shit.
These stills really undersell how crappy it looks in motion. You know when someone like Sunhi does a funny gif where someone's head is put on another body? Those look more convincing. You have this real face floating around this awkward moving video game body.
The dumbest part is obviously that it's not even a complex design, there was no reason to not just have the actress wear a real version of the costume, hell it's less complicated than the other grimier costume the character had earlier in the film, which was all practical.
Even more amazing is their other video where I learn that this scene ISN'T CGI.
I always thought it looked like it was, mind blown.
I miss Nolan's Tumbler scenes
Dat Tumbler growl tho
A Gaffer worked on that, you just made them really sad.
nhlducks35
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It's because of the shutter speeds, which changes the movie's motion blur
broncobuster
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Bad CGI tends to be exaggerated from time to time...but there's a part of X-Men Apocalypse that looked surprisingly bad. Hard to find a good clip of it. It's Psylocke running and jumping off a building. About 5 seconds of a bad CG model running as the camera moves around it; the hair and belt have this TressFX weightless bounce, there's this bizarre rim lighting around her without any light sources in the scene, and cutting between the real actress and the CG model doesn't help.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
I really wish they had delayed it a year or two to get everything ready. The Lord of the Rings was such a great experience, following it up with what The Hobbit ended up as is such a shame.
Zantetsuken
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This and that Hell fight have not aged well
Even as a kid I thought Malebogia looked like a chihuahua from hell. I still love Spawn though.
Thanos is in this thread.
Count Dookkake
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And it's redundant because the actress is already a goddess.
neurosisxeno
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The scene with Neville bouncing across the outside of Hogwarts comes to mind. Actually any distant shot of broomstick riding looks pretty terrible.
Marky Mark
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I'll bet it was recently posted on redit.
Yeah that's the scene think of too. He looks like an actual cartoon in that scene and the Quidditch scene.. oh man
Apparently they didn't start any of the VFX until post-production began. So it was all really rushed and sloppy. They learned from that mistake with the second film, and it showed with vastly improved effects.
hogendaz85
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True art is usually never centered or symmetrical. The shot would've been lame if it was centered, it would have actually taken away from the action.
catashtrophe
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I watched Dr Strange on the weekend and one thing that stuck out was the intro when the bad dudes were running in the streets of London then they jumped on the building side ways.
That looked like poor CGI but rest of the movie was ok
That looked like poor CGI but rest of the movie was ok
Wait is this supposed to be a physical object in the movie and not a hologram? If the former then it's horribad, if latter then it looks fine to me.
Not CG, so...
It's supposed to be a physical object made of "transformium" that can change form based on what you think at it or some shit. The non-robot effects in that movie are garbage.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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I hate Episode 2 as much if not drastically more than everyone, but I can never see what's wrong with this gif...I mean, beyond the movie's inherent shittiness.
Maybe it's the poor quality of the gif, but that looks fine to me
It looks absolutely garbage. The actor looks poorly lit, the environment looks bad, the fucking pear is CGI... for what reason!?
The prequel trilogy truly are the worst movies ever made.
JackBauer24
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Two scenes in Die Another Day
The opening surfing sequence and again wind surfing the huge tidal wave.
The opening surfing sequence and again wind surfing the huge tidal wave.
I might have first read it here, but the reason that's CGI is that Snipes didn't bother opening his eyes.
http://www.avclub.com/article/emblade-trinityem-30328
I remember seeing Spawn in the cinema. I quite enjoyed it, but my friend started laughing when he saw the demons - said they looked like something he'd draw as a kid.
Great soundtrack though. Got it before I saw the film, I think.
Jezbollah
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1997 Star Wars Episode IV Han/Jabba scene
So bad they had to re-do it 7 years later for the DVD release
So bad they had to re-do it 7 years later for the DVD release
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