Top 20 Movie Scenes RUINED by Terrible CGI
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- It's a bad idea to spare expense on CGI! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most notable movie scenes that could have been awesome had it not been for the horrible CGI. Our countdown includes scenes from movies “Die Another Day”, "The Flash", "Alien 3" and more! Did the bad CGI ruin these scenes for you, or are they still awesome? Let us know in the comments below!
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I mean I think with the final battle of JL(2017) didn't look bad but holy did the first scene with Superman on camera was super horrible. Not to mention that Zack got cut from the film. Thank god for the Snyder cut
The Scorpion King
“Gone in 60 Seconds” looked fine. It was produced back in 2001, and it looks great for its time. Tron tho, was pure uncanny valley nightmare fuel 🫣
Tron was good
"CG wasn't there yet" Correction: Jurassic Park, 1993; Terminator 2, 1991; Contact, 1997; The Fifth Element, 1997... nah, it was there, but the producers were, well, cheap. Practical effects were "aging out" and CG was in, but they didn't realize how expensive CG could get until they sent the check and it was spent on Spawn's eyes/cloak alone lol
Agreed! I watched that movie in the cinema back then and I was shocked by how bad the hell scene looked, it was like taken from a mediocre computer game (even back then). Besides the cheap look of the demon and the fire, I even recognized that all the "spawns" just repeated their moves like in a loop! It ruined the movie for me. It is still one of the worst cgi scened in the history of cinema! In this list it should be no. 1!
The vfx team also sucked
Why would anybody expect Spawn be comparable to the level of JP or T2?
And let’s say it did…….Spawn? What’s next? Clerks & Schindlers List? They could’ve filmed on location!
I really don't think the Black Panther/Killmonger fight looks that bad. Kinda shocked to see it on this list
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It's not just bad... It's atrocious.
Ghost Rider's introduction and the Green Lantern suit didn't look so bad to me, but I do agree about your #1 pick. That was extremely awful.
I weirdly find bad cgi in movies enduring. Its like a time stamp that shows us where we were in the progress of 3D modeling. The fact that even to this day it doesn't look (completely) real says we get to continue to watch this type of art slowly develop even further.
Except flash was worse than early 2000s
@@sethaldrich6902 A glitch in the Matrix, I'm sure.
That’s a great perspective! Do you have any favorite examples of CGI that you find particularly interesting or nostalgic?
@@WatchMojo A personal favorite of mine are the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Now, many of those shots use live models. Actually, the scene where the T. Rex breaks the glass above the kids wasn't originally supposed to happen and their screams were genuine from what I remember. But those fairly early CGI dinosaurs were way ahead of their time. Not saying they look good by today standards, but if I didn't already know the movie came out in the early 90s, I would have guessed those visuals to be late 2000s, or early 2010s because it holds up that well.
@@WatchMojo "The Hunt For Red October's" underwater sub and torpedo CGI is nostalgic. I saw that movie in 1989 at the largest theater screen in Colorado at the time- the CGI was AWESOME at the time. After seeing movies like "Minority Report," Red October's CGI looked dated!
"Please don't make the supersuit green... or animated!"
Now now. Matrix 2 was the real deal when it came out. And it got highly praised too. You can't judge it now in 2024. The CGI looks as if it came out of a PS2. But then, it was peak
The fight took place inside the Matrix so technically it was all CGI lol
Let's judge it by T2 and jurassic park standards then
@@sethaldrich6902 T2 was perfect. Especially the part where the t1000 go through the bars
Hear me out here - has anyone seen what an actual shape shifting anthropomorphic scorpion God person looks like in real life? Maybe they really do look like N64 graphics, we just don't know.
lol tbf, we all know how Dwayne Johnson looks like and that wasn’t it.
@@phyrundeab9419 His face was pure nightmare fuel 😂😂😂. I had never seen that scene before until now. I wish I could un-see it.
@@phyrundeab9419 I bet The Rock facepalmed at the final product of The Scorpion King turning into a giant Scorpion as he was going to give Barry Sommers and the idiot VFX team the People's Elbow and The Rock Bottom as well as the entire staff at Universal for that. It look like PS1 graphics.
@@TheShadowsega75Terryman No, It's not like PS1... but still pretty bad.
Funny thing about number 1, is have the DVD and on the back of it says “with breath taking special effects”. I died laughing.
I actually enjoyed all the CGI used in Ghost Rider especially his introduction. Ghost Rider is actually one of my personal favourite Marvel movies.
It really isn't that bad
Yeah I liked it too
@@bennywark3103 Ghost Rider needs more love and attention and appreciation they seriously need to make another Ghost Rider movie or put him in another movie.
@@BrandonPettitt-bw1mjif its one of ur favorite movies ur opinion is not to be taken at all....any objective eye sees its really bad but u also probably really think Cage is a good actor
its decent, like a 6/10
The otherwise solid werewolf movie, "Bad Moon," was ruined by an infamous CG transformation that is truly difficult to watch.
My first thought too. As well as The Thing 2011 and An American Werewolf in Paris
@@mattwilliams1765 AAWIP's CG broke my frickin heart.
@@karvald And they claimed it would have state-of-the-art CGI and it wasn't anywhere close to state-of-the-art, even for its time.
Eh, not the worst I've seen. Still better than American Werewolf in Paris. At least the transformation lasted only a few seconds.
Hot take: there’s so much bad CGI in super hero films that Green Lantern doesn’t even look that bad now
The most overly- criticised movie ever made I guess.
Another film they haven't mentioned regarding bad CGI was Black Panther.
@@megamanxhunter Did...did you not watch the video? It was there on the list 😂. Now, I personally disagree with the assessment of bad CGI (or at least, no worse than many of the superhero movies), but yes, if you've seen the video, Black Panther was brought up.
Fans started noticing bad CGI in MCU ever since Civil War
Nothing compares to Medusa 's hair
@@megamanxhunter …did you not watch the video?
The updated versio of The Secret Garden had horrible CGI, where the '90's version needn't rely on any CGI, to tell the story.
Take care, and all the best.
I thought I was the only one that hated the cgi of the Cameos in the movie of "The Flash" because I can't seem to find those people that hated that scene. I mean it was supposed to be beautiful and epic, I want to feel that moment, but I just can't help but notice the cgi specially with Reeves and Cage's Superman.
Hated it
that scorpion king scene was saved by the bad guy running into the scene to kneel and yell NYE!
I thought the scenes of the final battle in "Justice League," Jabba the Hutt in "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope," burly brawl in "The Matrix Reloaded," Wolverine's claws in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," T'Challa's and Killmonger's fight in "Black Panther," the cameos in "The Flash," and the aliens in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" were rather well done. To be honest, I didn't really recognize those as CGI, and all those scenes looked rather real to me.
Time to pick up some glasses
@@sethaldrich6902 Right!😂
The question is how much hi-res tvs ruined older cgi effects. With older tvs some of the issues weren't as noticible
Maybe Dante would have looked better if he’d actually drank the potion instead of just spilling it all over himself 😂
The black panther one I’ll always enjoy. The acting from both Michael and Chadwick were on point that I overlook the CGI. Rest with the ancestors king, Wakanda Forever!
7:00 what's really bad, this is the "upgraded" effects . The one in theater re-release was just garbage.
Yeah....the original special edition CGI was just terrible for New Hope. Lucas attempted to make it better when the original trilogy on DVD, but he should have let the true original cuts stand.
In the case of Alien 3, there is only 1 second of CGI in the entire film and that is the scene at the end where the alien cracks before it explodes.
In Alien 3 it is more of a composite of two shots
The thing with the Matrix Reloaded sequence is that the bad CGI can simply be explained as the Matrix itself glitching out due to the amount of Smiths in the area at the same time. Its like when your graphics card takes a moment to load and is all choppy for a while until your system fights through it and begins to look smooth again because at that point it's used to processing so much information. Head canon is a wonderful thing.
I agree when Neo (Keanu Reeves LOL Shadow) grab the pole and laid the Smackdown on the Agent Smiths candy asses the camera started spinning around like a Washing Machine on Full Dry Mode as I was about to get dizzy and about to throw up as the scene was wonky as hell until it went back to normal when Neo flies and escaped.
You mean James Bond wasn't actually windsurfing on that title Wave? Wow I no longer believe in reality
No. 14, It looks like we put on "Ladybug and Cat Noir" from it's early seasons 1-5 with these abysmal effects that you'll keep expecting that fight between Woody and Buzz from the first "Toy Story" to be more realistic than this sword fight here when it comes to the CG effects there
Mojo missed the first quidditch game in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, cgi made players look like dolls on brooms
Give me Special Edition Jabba the Hutt over The Rock’s Scorpion King any day.
I remember thinking Scorpion King was way better than I expected....until the end, it was sad
Fitst Of All I Disagree With:
Terminator Genesis.
The Matrix Reloaded.
Ghost Rider.
They Looked Really Good In My Opinion.
And 2nd: When There Is Zack Snyder's Justice League Out There You Don't Criticize Justice League Ever.
18, 15, 11. You need to go to the doctor. RIGHT! NOW! Because I have seen far far faaaaar worse than this.
16. They fixed everything in the Snyder Cut.
14. The problem wasn't the visuals, the problem is the way they move.
The Zack Snyder JL was better than the Joss Whedon cut.
Too bad the theatrical cut was the only version canon to the DCEU over the director cut. But, good thing though we'll be seeing how James Gunn and Peter Safran's direction for a DC Universe will go this time around when we get "Creature Commandos" this year on December and next year with "Superman" on July next
Very suprised Aquaman 2 was not on this list, the underwater scenes especially the actors faces were unwatchable for me
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The Scorpion King Movie is a well known one. The Rock was not made for CGI 😅
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Older viewers don't care so much. In the old days you needed to suspend your disbelief and use your imagination because no special effects were realistic. Younger viewers seem to have lost that ability and demand flawless rendering. Such passivity and lack of imagination can spoil almost any movie.
Im okay with the year 2000’s+ movies but bad CGI in the 70’s?80’s.? 😢😂 come on bro.. thats before the internet and insane technology era 😢 😅 no mercy
Especially since there was no CGI in 70s and 80s. And even more worrying is that some movies from that era look better than movies made today
None of these were from the 70s or 80s.
If you're thinking Star Wars (1977) the CGI in question was the "special edition" version which was done in 1997.
How did Escape From LA avoid this list? From Snake’s underwater journey to LA to him surfing as he catches up with Steve Buscemi’s character to the helicopter escape, this movie was full of terrible CGI.
I have no problem with Star Wars, Ghost Rider, or Black Panther. Touchy
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I think CGI is overused these days!
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@@BlackHatCinephile spammy the bot
The movies below 2000 shouldnt have been included here. It was good back then.
Agreed, although Jurassic Park in 93 looks better than anything made today
Some honorable mentions:
- Catwoman
- Son of the Mask
- The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl
- Bruce Banner in the Hulkbuster suit in Avengers: Infinity War
- Everything in the movie adaptation of Cats
- Transformers: Age of Extinction (particularly the dinosaurs at the beginning of the movie)
Hell in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey was more realistic than hell in Spawn and it came out in '91!
that Spawn CGI is like you are using an NVidia GeForce 600 series Graphic card in this present time. Lmaooo
I'm surprised they didn't mention Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One
I actually like the fight from Reloaded.
Hell the freeway chasing the fights made it the best action scene in any movie I've ever seen in my life I don't know why I get so much hate cuz it's a really awesome movie
not having 98% of the fast and furious franchise on here, was an egregious oversight
The Hell scene in Spawn looks like a PS1 cutscene
I swear this is the 3rd time I've seen this list on watchmojo. Are u guys out of ideas?
The top 20 WatchMojo list you think you've already watched
Been out of ideas for years....and good narrators
Lost In Space (1998). That monkey thing. And many other CGI effects. Honestly, bad cgi does not distract from the storyline (And I guess I'm still the only one on planet earth, who likes my James Bond firmly planted in being "over the top", and therefore miss the real James Bond in 'Die Another Day'. I own it on Blu-ray).
ngl the scene with the Dante Beast coming around the corner is probably one of the scariest things i’ve ever seen, possibly in part to the horrible cgi. i love it
6:48 for some reason you are showing the more recent and vastly improved CGI version of Jabba the Hutt, in the first Special Edition (1997) he looked 1000x worse than this. You can find comparison videos on TH-cam.
frankly i stopped giving a shit about bad CGI years ago. i mean let's face it: even when it's good, it's still kinda bad. but the alternative is putting a painstaking amount of time and effort into makeup or animatronics that nobody appreciates and only gets like six seconds of screentime.
Yeah Scorpion king definitely was bad lmao
3:41 three years after Jurassic Park!!
"Don't make the supersuit green ... or animated!"
( Deadpool)
😂😂😂
Alien 3 could definitely be more ridiculous....The original plan was to put the alien costume on whippet dogs, but they couldn't do anything about the fact that it was obviously a dog running around the hall
The cgi in I am legend was the last of its issues, they ruined a great story for no reason.
Spawn's Hell looks like a giant Gremlin
Wtf are you guys talking about?
Almost all of the above were incredible for their time, except Spawn, Green Lantern.
Practical effects will for the most part age better than CGI, but dizzing CGI at the time; like the ones in star wars original trilogy.... You guys are plain ignorant and trying to sound savy.
Que terrible CGI... Enter the Scorpion King... hasn't this been beaten to death already???
In terms of Mojo rankings?
Some old movies with bad cgi need to be remade with better cgi so we can appreciate it more
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@@BlackHatCinephile no one wants your pointless spam
This would be great!
No Mortal Kombat: Annihilation? That has the worst CGI of anything EVER.
Then again, THAT movie was already ruined about 2 minutes after it started... so the CGI wouldn't have actually been its downfall.
Many of the films presented here have quite normal CGI, taking into account their budget and year of release. If even in Spider-Man 2002 with a budget of $ 139 million there are not the most successful scenes with computer graphics (in the scene when the Goblin turns people into skeletons), in the Hulk 2003 with a budget of $ 137 million there are many bad CGI scenes, then what can be demanded from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen who has a budget 78 million dollars?
No. 16, Or more like one of Nostalgia Critic's reviews that made the greatest combination of heroes look like a video on internet critic puts together in a week there
The CGI Princess Leia appearance at the end of Rogue One just about ruined it for me. I had already struggled with CGI Grand Moff Tarkin, but I wish they could have used archival footage or something more subtle instead of bringing a dead actor back to life as you put it regarding The Flash.
They were good
Yall be reaching at this point
Moi detests CGI!!! My favorite saying is that 'CGI is the death of the movies.' They tend to take away from the plot.
Do the top 10 shows ruined by bad cgi for example Clark Kent suit is entirely CGI not real and Tom Welling didn’t wear it.
Yeah it's really pathetic he wouldn't wear that suit at least one time for the fans that's very selfish of him to do that
even characters in videogames looks much much more convincing than in some recent movies (Supermasive Games, The Order 1886, ...)
Disagree with the Blade II sword fight. Shut up, Watchmojo
The Scorpion King in Mummy Returns will always be the worst CGI in movie history. He looked like a bad video game character from the 90's.
15:54 is it just me or do these things look like xenomorphs! Also she's possibly holding an alien egg
I remember watching The Matrix Reloaded and Scorpion King in theaters and thinking even then that the CGI looked horrible.
Mummy? Yes. Matrix? No
The only thing yall really got right was the black panther scene … because I was genuinely pissed off watching it in the theatre
The CGI in the Ghost Rider movie didn’t bother me, I still find it amazing as well as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Black Panther.
It never seems to get called out, but the 'squid' birth scene where Agent J gets grabbed by a tentacle in Men in Black was terrible, even for its time.
Recently, my dad and I watched a documentary about Folk Horror movies and there was a clip where a guy turned to stone.
3:05 South Park BL&U made Hell look way better, and that was only 2 years after this.
4:57 "wow." "I know, right?" are you talking about the bad quality of it?
6:04 yeah that fight in front of the lamp wall looks terrible.
7:07 how does a talking alien slug from 1977 look better than a devil in 1997?
8:04 aww cmon it doesn`t look THAT bad.
12:33 well somebody skipped Leg Day
14:07 the babies don`t look too good either, but at least you can still tell who the Cameos are.
15:46 this entire movie is bad.
Despite these bad CGI, most of these movies are guilty pleasures
Do bad practical effect that ruined a good movie and put Oppenheimer on top. That nuke scene was hilarious.
Some of them I haven't seen. Some of them aren't too bad, considering. A lot of them were more like "Yeah that WAS really bad" memories for me. Especially #1.
The Thing Prequel should have had at least a notable mention.
All the creature fx were originally done as practical effects as a tip of the hat to fx of the first Thing movie.
But studio execs (who know zero about good movies) thought the practical fx looked “dated” and swapped them out for rushed CGI at the last minute, and ruined what should have been a great prequel to a cult horror classic.
The only one that really stood out to me, because I really don't pay that kind of attention to detail, was the Scorpion king. I know that would have to be number one regardless. They didn't even try.😂
This is before CGI, but in the movie "In Harm's Way" the sea battle effects were just terrible. Co-Star Kirk Douglas appealed to the studio to let another film production company do the effects, but no dice.
Battle of the 4 Armies? The Hobbit 3? Ruined it all for me.
This has been debunked many times! Alien 3 did not use CGI for any of the alien shots. They're all composited puppetry.
The only time CGI was used was to add the cracks that go through its head before it explodes.
That said... the puppetry compositing looks terrible.
Most of these are absolutely fine...
The Hobbit Trilogy has some really, really bad CGI, too. Especially noticable in The Battle of the Five Armies, and there most obvious in the Extended Cut.
1:17 I've been waiting for you. I don't know how you could create Young Arnold without CGI. I didn't find the T-800 too fake looking.
CGI was not needed for Hell. It could be done with practical effects.
4:06 And a mustache so powerful it crippled the DCU.
My phone went off when Green Lantern turned on. How is CGI in 2011 this bad? This is where we put the Mars Attack effects. THE CG IS AWFUL!
I've seen fans put in Jabba as a hologram in this scene. That would make more sense. Why would Jabba leave the palace if he doesn't have too? A hologram of Jabba wouldn't look out of place since the hologram is digital anyway.
Cage going full Cage when he transforms is awesome.
8:25 The movie goes into Video Game land.
11:51 Not the whole thing. Imagine how more swol this guy would look if he drank it properly. What is that thing? It's a bad CGI monster.
I'm glad we got to see the Nic Cage Superman actually move.
15:03 It also ended Pierce Brosnan's career as James Bond. We could of had another Bond movie with him.
I guessing the aliens in Indiana Jones have silicon based bones.
Those things in I am Legend are vampires? They look like zombies.
The reason why the Scorpion King looked bad is because the actual actor wasn't available. That scene made me laugh.
Most horrifying Cgi was that Twilight baby. There was literally no need for it and everyone just had this audible reaction to it like why!
i don't get what's wrong with jabba's cg model.
Same here.
The CGI in the clip was from a 2004 re-edit. It looks far better than the 1997 model. If you Google the 1997 model, you'll see how awful it was originally.
For the Anaconda films, the only CGI I liked was the original and not a fan of the sequels (the third film having the worst CGI).
The aliens on Signs were horrible also
Honourable mention: Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice's Cavetroll.
Or Doomsday, for short
Out of all "bad CGI" , i have ever seen till 2024
Mummy Returns -Scorpion King has weirded me out the most
It is weirdest CGI i have ever seen
I love that Spawn tried to advertise itself as the 'special effects film of the year!'
LOL. Yeah, right.
It's easy to look back at the older ones and laugh, but to be honest, they weren't bad for their time. Some newer movies look just as bad. I just try to ignore it and not focus on it too much.
Most of these ... Terminator, The Matrix, Jabba, Ghost Rider, Blade 2 etc... all perfectly acceptable! Where is Peter Cushing's dodgy Moff Tarkin Rogue One CGI?.... that should defo rank pretty highly.
I'm surprised The Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns is number one because I actually predict that. However, this movie is actually pretty great. I don't care what people say, the final climax of this scene is wicked cool and entertaining.
I enjoyed these movies regardless of the bad CGI: Spawn, Blade 2, Ghost Rider, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Air Force One, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Black Panther, James Bond: Die another day, The Mummy 2. Scorpion King
Hell in Spawn looks like it from a 90's video game. Jabba in A New Hope looks smaller, slightly slimmer, and dark grayish compared to Return of the Jedi. Wolverine's Origins, maybe by a tv settings, the claws look fin. #18, 15, 12, 11, 8, 6, 3, and 1 were all good to me. I'm not a film critic. But I liked thos movies, including their cgi.
This list feels like one giant hot take, especially with the spawn, star wars and any that we're 19(insert number)