What are you talking about?! That was by far the most convincing cg shot in the entire trilogy. Even in the blu-ray the shot is flawless, you can't tell where real Legolas ends and CG Legolas begins. The only thing that gives it away as an effects shot is the sheer impossibility of it. There is 0 rubberiness here.
The Scorpion King bit was bad, but that bit with the guy running up and posing before shouting "No!" made it look like a parody rather than a legit movie.
Ben Parker it's not that big of a problem for a movie those years, but, in fact, you just don't want to notice all these blurry cgi effects for the lotr is too good.
Admittedly, all the CG in LotR stands out horribly. Even Gollum to an extent. But given the time of those movies, it's all pretty forgivable due to the quality of the films overall. And of course, the Balrog is CG perfection, as it is the type of thing CG was made for; LotR also did right by not CGing orcs, as New Line eventually goes on to do in the Hobbit.
It had CGI but it was used with moderation like how it should be done. Instead today they have to overuse it so much that the only real thing left is the actors themselves and even they are often in some scenes replaced by CGI.
Many good points, but Return of the King was top quality CGI when it first came out way back. That Oscar was well deserved. But there are some other deserving titles on this list, to be sure. :)
As a CG artist I need to point something out, when you say"Bad computers", its not the computers fault, its the cg artists / people telling the computer what to do who are bad. #DontBlameComputersForBadCGIartists
I think he was joking. Anywho I'm going to link this just because I think it sort of relates to this comment. www.theonion.com/my-computer-totally-hates-me-vs-god-do-i-hate-that-b-1819594270
+Level 58 Death Knight Not even kidding the first thought I had in the theater when the scene came on was about how bad the CGI looked compared to the rest of the movie. I was 9.
Arrowless Knee I'm not passionate enough about the quality of the CGI in that scene to be in denial about it. I'd never even thought about it before seeing this video.
They're argument for Return of the King couldn't possibly hold less water. The scene looks fine. They should have talked instead about the scene in "Battle of the Five Armies" where Legolas step-jumps up a bunch of falling stone blocks. That looked incredibly stupid.
One of the best scenes in the trilogy. The rendering and textures were awesome. And Weta's MASSIVE did the best possibly work on that time (after JP movies of course). The general Motion may be a little "blury&clumsy " but still the dynamic motion of the scene, for a 2002 production movie it is still, way more than perfect. I can't even believe that they are comparing LotR trilogy with all these shitty movies!
john suffer Absolutely right! If you referring to the Jurassic trilogy, the LotR one, was way better rendered. And yes, the Massive's production, and CGI used is yet better than most movies from nowadays. Amazing program! It was a masterpiece! And Tomily182 , the Hobbit trilogy has nothing to do with the LotR series. At all. If a 15yo production isn't an argument then there is no argument at all to argue for.
They got around $250 mill to make the trilogy so it was big budget. I don't mind those segments with Legolas anyway as I fast-forward them as he's a prat anyway.
Standard these days, not so much back in '99 when they financed it. Probably only Titanic (and maybe Waterworld?) cost so much for one film back then I'd say.
MrFlaten92 What the fuck!? Those were HUGE movies about a classic, very famous tale that millions of people were waiting ages for! And a ton of the CGI in those movies was absolutely hilarious! They couldn't even make a decent, realistic looking light shine from Gandalf's staff! And that fuck'n Gollum, too!! He alone, killed the last 2 movies!! HAAHAAHAA!!!
ThePsychoBunny 44 Oh, they did! Absolutely! But, I'm just talking about the CGI special effects, not the story and great character creations. Those were great. However, a movie that was entirely terrible on all grounds, was the movie "Spawn"! look at so many idiots that actually loved that movie! Someone once told me that it was the greatest movie he ever saw - that it was even way better than the Batman movies! PAAHAAHAA!!! Spawn not only had some of the worst CGI I've ever seen in my life in the movies, but the story, the dialog, the acting and the lead actor were all a huge laugh after another! I place that movie somewhere in the middle of my list of the "top 20 worst movies I've ever seen in my entire life!"
TRON (modern version) i know its meant to be a video game film but all the characters are real except the main protagonist who has no emotion and looks plastic
+T Nich Are you talking about the beginning where they used CGI to make Jeff Bridges look young again? Because I didn't like that either. But everything else looked great to me!
Legolas? Elves are supposed to be extremely light and be crazy agile on their feet. Most of that shot is actually real. The super burly brawl is the last fight in revolutions, you are talking about the burly brawl and 99% of it cgi augmented reality based. Meaning you didn't notice the CGI most of the time. The only true pure cgi in it is when neo knocks mr smith up. Everything is just augmented reality with CGI.
LotR is from 2013(2003 *edited). They started the production in the end of 90's. The CGI wasn't bad for the time. Edited: I wrote the year wrong. RotK was released in december of 2003.
I wrote wrong. I was trying to say 2003, not 13. Was not from 2005 the movie was released in december of 2003. But they filmed the 3 movies in a row. The first one released in 2001. They spent more than 1 and a half year just filming. So the production of the movies started in the end of 90's. So the effects was not from 2004. Because the 3 movies uses the same tecnologies, and are very similar in visual aspects. It's an old movie already. The effects where good for his time.
Yep my error, it was 2003. Likely the effects are around 2001ish than. I concur it looked great for the time, that one scene hasn;t aged well but most of the movie still looks damn good. Where as the scene from the Bond film was laughed at even when it was in theatres
I'm a huge fan of the TV show Babylon 5 which was one of the first to use CGI, the space battles still look OK but damn do any interiors or other things with CGI look ghastly(it was from 1994-98)
DouglasEdward84 Yep, didn't not aged well at all. That scene is weird do watch now. Even the far takes from battles if you watch the bluray on a big TV, looks like a strategy game.
3:44 hahaha perfect absolutely perfect "WHAT are you SAYING Colonel? Is this a list of your 11 secret herbs and spices?" the British accent made it even better
The Graham Revell music and the titles were good too. IF they slowed down the jumping around a bit, it would help a great deal. However those skin tones in that outfit were gorgeous. And what's his face as her costar was worthy.
@@JLConawayII You cannot just make time🤦♀️ blame the Company that rushed them. You have to request more time to work on things and they can deny them that.
Okay, I hold the unpopular view that I actually liked The Mummy Returns (Adore Rachel Weisz, and Brendan Frasier, plus the kid's sassiness and John Hannah's one-liners just make me grin) but OH. MY. GOD. That Scorpion King was BEYOND terrible, even for a film made in the early 00s... it was just... urgh, I remember watching it as a 7 year old and even as a kid I was immediately pulled out of the film...
Mau Jo Just because the CGI was obvious doesn't mean it was bad. I can tell the difference between every single CGI and puppet dinosaur in every single Jurassic Park movie, but that doesn't make the CGI dinos poorly rendered.
Hands down the Scorpion King was laughable. When video game cinematic can blow it away you have a real problem. Matrix fight scene, totally. It looked like they screen captured a scene from the video game. I have to say the LOTR should get some credit. That is an extremely ambitious sequence and no other example came close to the complexity involved. And at least the textures blend and the pacing was rhythmic.
Thank you for giving every single clip a full on description instead of getting to the point. We really did need that instead of seeing the bad cgi(what we came here for) and i appreciate your attempts of wasting 5 minutes of my life. Thank you for making such good videos.
I strongly disagree with LoTR. Do you realise when this was made? It still looks pretty amazing. It's just that now we can do a lot better, but for the time it came out they did a flawless job. You're basically saying that the merit and quality of the work is down because we have more advanced technology now, which is unfair. Of course it deserved this oscar when it came out.
Yeah I feel like the age of the movie wasn't taken into account when he made this video. I mean return of the mummy, that was relatively good, definitely not the best, but not the best.
That and Legolas is supposed to be floaty, because he's an elf very light in his feet. In the Fellowship he is the only one walking ON the snow instead of through the snow.
+JakO prcek I always thought it looked horrible. There's also a scene in fellowship that looks pretty bad. The staircase collapsing in Moria that looked like a scene from Willow. The layering and effects were terrible. There are plenty of shots in movies as bad or worse. The difference that got RoTK onto here was as mentioned in the video: It had excellent CGI in so many other places and throughout the trilogy that this case really sticks out.
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Transformers 1 was realeased in 2007, and the still look amazing, and it wasnt just like a car crash, or a monster, the whole movie was about giant robots fighting each other in cities, and it looks really good
i think they were accusing these films of being lazy/cheap in their production. that's why they pointed out Jurassic Park from 1993, and how amazing and believable their cgi was, especially for the time. A lot of these movies had access to similar funding, so their final products are inexcusable
+Dalloz Cansing Even in the context of the movie itself that bit always cracks me up! Imhotep's resurrected so that he can once again have another stab at taking over the world. After all that build up only for the Scorpion King to get impaled with a spear, the guy just comes skidding to let us know how pissed off he is. NAAAAAAIIIIIIII!!!!
+Shaggy2222 The very brief bit in FotR where he leaps off the cave troll always stood out to me as really bad, but after watching this, I'm not sure it was actually worse. It may have been, but RotK's was much longer.
I think it's more a problem of how exactly a super agile killing machine would look, leaping around on a 70 ft high, charging giant elephant, and where the point of view is, considering the PoV is super stable. No normal human could keep his centre of gravity stable and would fall off. So, being an Elf, with super reactions and super agility, he is going to look strange and rubbery compared to a human who could not do the feat in the first place.
The CGI in the first Matrix film looked better (in this example 4:04) because it wasn't CGI. They used a method that they called 'bullet time' where they shot the actors at every angle with multiple cameras surrounding them 360 degrees. In the following films they opted to do the same kind of shots entirely with CGI because it was more efficient and they could do more super natural things, didn't look as good though for sure.
In regards to the Last Airbender's CG, Appa was the only huge eye sore, but many other elements (pun intended) were quite passable. That movie just fails from the shit conceptual aspects, not CG rendering. Shyamalan deliberately messed it up. He skews the deliberate ethnic background of each culture (Fire Nation - Japanese, Earth Kingdom - Chinese, Water Tribes - Inuit/Siberian, Air Nomads - Tibetan), where in the film the Fire Nation are Indian, Earth Kingdom amazingly remains the same, Water Tribes are white people and Air Nomads are a white kid and an ambiguously Asian guy. He apparently had no concept of martial arts, which should use as little energy as possible to deliver as much impact as they can, where in this everyone has to do a full range of body motions to achieve a minor amount of bending; the show obviously portrays the body motions and element motions as being in sync. He asserts that fire benders only manipulate existing fire unless they're ridiculously powerful, it apparently takes four guys doing air tai chi to move a small rock, Katara's water orb is losing water while she moves it yet it never lessens in size, and Aang never actually does many of the simple airbending techniques in the show like exhaling himself up many feet into the air and softly floating back down. The CG guys did a good job with their part of the film, but it was ultimately left in the hands of an unimaginative moron like M. Night.
No, the Matrix scene looked like shit at the time. I remember watching it and thinking "Good, this looks so fake" Which is weird, cause lots of the effect in the Matrix were much better.
+fisharmor Do you want a cookie? No one cares if you didn't watch a movie, its your own problem. Let's not lie, you wrote that comment just to be able to bash the movie when someone gives you a different answer. Well my friend, i believe you came at the wrong place, because no one fucking cares.
With very few expections such as Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, Star Trek III, Deep Blue Sea, I Am Legend, Independence Day, The Matrix, Earthquake, The Hindenburg, King Kong, Alone Came a Spider, Die Another Day, The Mummy Returns and Avatar 1&2 were runaway hits with state-of-the-art special effects, but for some others like Catwoman, Dune, Streets of Fire, City Heat, The Island, The Survivors, To Be or Not to Be, Two of a Kind, Pennies from Heaven, Brainstorm, The Border, Blue Sky among others got a lot of terrible CGI/matte painting moments in many big budget movies.
+Fury Josh bro starwars, 2001 a space odessy, jurrasic park, E.T all of came nearly 30. 40, 50 years ago its not about the technology but how you use does matter,, i loved every scene in the LOTR's movies except this,, i was shocked seeing this for the 1st time in theater n thought,, man wtfuck was this
After watching this video it has only proved to me that the LoTR trilogy still stands strong even with the sub-par CGI. And is still ,in my opinion, the best movies of all time.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first broom flying lesson, and a horrible CGI Neville Longbottom falling from that wall he hooked his cape onto... Just sad CGI...
+Tohtori Kumiankka I was just going to post this. He's not saying the films are bad (except maybe the Ring 2), he's saying those CG cutscenes were sloppy.
I work in VFX, just wanted to say... These movies aren't made by computers, but by PEOPLE using computers. It's like saying that the book series A Song of Ice and Fire was made by a computer because that's what the author used to write it. Just wanted to point that out.
You gotta be kidding me. The Legolas scene is absolutely awesome. Even today I hardly notice CGI in it. His movements are more believable then ones presented in Hobbit, and Lotr was made over 10 years ago.
the issue is all of the good CGI gets completely ignored. like the mummy 2, that movie had a lot of REALLY REALLY good CGI... but it gets completely overlooked because everyone ignores it.
Disagree with Return of the King.
Same.
maybe it isnt so bad that it should put in this list, but it is till very poorly done compared to other CGI moments in the trilogy
Legolas' arm-breaking mounting of the horse was the worst bit of rubbery CG to me.
What are you talking about?! That was by far the most convincing cg shot in the entire trilogy. Even in the blu-ray the shot is flawless, you can't tell where real Legolas ends and CG Legolas begins. The only thing that gives it away as an effects shot is the sheer impossibility of it. There is 0 rubberiness here.
ArgoX2007 I would have to agree with you there.
The Scorpion King bit was bad, but that bit with the guy running up and posing before shouting "No!" made it look like a parody rather than a legit movie.
Yeah, the cheese was real in that scene.
Somebody should edit that bit and insert a 'What are Thoooose' in that scene
Ariyan Chowdhury Well...... That's a bit old
bobtheduck he looks likes a dreamworks character from the early 2000s.
bobtheduck yeah I fucking lost it when that happened
as a 3D designer with 15 years old experience , don't compare old CGI with the one of Today
yassine hamouche could u mention some of your project ?
Stanley Kubrick disagrees with you, he died in 1999 BTW
Actually! so would Hitchcock
I agree with your statement. Regardless of whatever qualifications you may/may not have to make it.
Obvious
Jurassic Park
how dare you put Return of the King in this list..
Kdream's Cosmos Same thing I said!
I think this dude wants to fight the whole LOTR fan base.
Not being a troll here, but return of the king has a lot of bad cgi going on.
wdenegri No not at all
wdenegri what are you talking about
Who Framed Roger Rabbit. the bunny never looked real. not one single scene.
+whitedevil2 It wasnt cgi anyway
+Austin Beene some people didnt get the joke
+Thaumablazer That was the joke.
lmao
+whitedevil2 God damn it now there's milk everywhere. I really shouldn't eat cereal and read comment sections. gg mate
I've actually literally never noticed a problem in the Legolas one.
Ben Parker it's not that big of a problem for a movie those years, but, in fact, you just don't want to notice all these blurry cgi effects for the lotr is too good.
ATROX True, true
Admittedly, all the CG in LotR stands out horribly. Even Gollum to an extent. But given the time of those movies, it's all pretty forgivable due to the quality of the films overall. And of course, the Balrog is CG perfection, as it is the type of thing CG was made for; LotR also did right by not CGing orcs, as New Line eventually goes on to do in the Hobbit.
It's most noticeable when he slides down its trunk.
you have to compare the cgi quality to other films of that era, unless your technical enough to understand what was possible.
That Return of the King moment really isn't that bad, especially given how difficult that is to get right and that it was the early 2000s.
The lord of the rings one was fine I don't understand
Also considering the year it was produced. It blew every film out of the water in special effects. This guys comparing it to modern cgi. Clown
Watch that scene a few times in a row then tell us what you really think.
Lemme explain: It looks rubish and fake AF, the point of the vdeo is "for the money they cost they should got something much better"
@@antoniocenteno1483 its called context. For something produced in the early 2000s compared to other films of the era it was great .
@@mattybhoy6522 Yeah but it didn´t age very well you know, Look at Jurassic Park for example how good it looks today
Jurassic Park still looks so good because it WASN'T CGI, it was almost entirely practical effects.
It had CGI but it was used with moderation like how it should be done. Instead today they have to overuse it so much that the only real thing left is the actors themselves and even they are often in some scenes replaced by CGI.
+bloxyman22 That's not even what the video was indicating...
Blovl H
Am I not allowed to have a opinion of my own??
I just can't help laughing at how when the scorpion King is stabbed he pulls himself into the frame to scream noooo
I've never realized that LOL
+ArdinVincent It's the pause that makes it so humorous
I KNOW RIGHT
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Right!?? Even as a kid I was laughing my ass off
Many good points, but Return of the King was top quality CGI when it first came out way back. That Oscar was well deserved.
But there are some other deserving titles on this list, to be sure. :)
As a CG artist I need to point something out, when you say"Bad computers", its not the computers fault, its the cg artists / people telling the computer what to do who are bad.
#DontBlameComputersForBadCGIartists
IO Studios
Are there actually people who blame computers or CGI for bad CGI?
I think he was joking.
Anywho I'm going to link this just because I think it sort of relates to this comment.
www.theonion.com/my-computer-totally-hates-me-vs-god-do-i-hate-that-b-1819594270
I think he was being the most sarcastic way possible about it
he was just being sarcastic
He's joking, he's quoting a different movie
While I agree with most of this list, the Legolas scene looked absolutely fine back in 2003, and still looks passable today.
+Level 58 Death Knight Not even kidding the first thought I had in the theater when the scene came on was about how bad the CGI looked compared to the rest of the movie. I was 9.
+Level 58 Death Knight Yea man, I thought the same thing too...it was bad the first time I saw it. You're just in denial.
Arrowless Knee I'm not passionate enough about the quality of the CGI in that scene to be in denial about it. I'd never even thought about it before seeing this video.
They're argument for Return of the King couldn't possibly hold less water. The scene looks fine.
They should have talked instead about the scene in "Battle of the Five Armies" where Legolas step-jumps up a bunch of falling stone blocks. That looked incredibly stupid.
The end boss of Blade was pretty terrible.
haha every fight scene in blade :D
1:07 it's not the battle of Mina's tirith!!!!!broooonits the battle of pellanor fields get ur facts straight
Are you serious mate?! Return of the King was a 2002 production movie, the CGI was years ahead. Sometimes it STILL is!
exactly!!!
Are you serious? This Legolas scene was punch in the face even in 2002! And they did it again in 2014, so year of production is not an argument.
One of the best scenes in the trilogy. The rendering and textures were awesome. And Weta's MASSIVE did the best possibly work on that time (after JP movies of course). The general Motion may be a little "blury&clumsy " but still the dynamic motion of the scene, for a 2002 production movie it is still, way more than perfect. I can't even believe that they are comparing LotR trilogy with all these shitty movies!
john suffer
Absolutely right! If you referring to the Jurassic trilogy, the LotR one, was way better rendered. And yes, the Massive's production, and CGI used is yet better than most movies from nowadays. Amazing program! It was a masterpiece! And Tomily182 , the Hobbit trilogy has nothing to do with the LotR series. At all. If a 15yo production isn't an argument then there is no argument at all to argue for.
Exactly, and I think the same for Matrix which was from the same year. Those films were SO ahead of their time.
People getting all butt hurt when the CGI truly did suck ass. He never said any of the movies were inherently bad, just some CGI sequences.
Where the heck is justice League
it wasn't out when this video was made.
maidmarian101 or homecoming
Wait
I wouldn't call Lord of the Rings a big budget movie. and the CGI wasn't that bad.
They got around $250 mill to make the trilogy so it was big budget. I don't mind those segments with Legolas anyway as I fast-forward them as he's a prat anyway.
Standard these days, not so much back in '99 when they financed it. Probably only Titanic (and maybe Waterworld?) cost so much for one film back then I'd say.
MrFlaten92
What the fuck!? Those were HUGE movies about a classic, very famous tale that millions of people were waiting ages for! And a ton of the CGI in those movies was absolutely hilarious! They couldn't even make a decent, realistic looking light shine from Gandalf's staff! And that fuck'n Gollum, too!! He alone, killed the last 2 movies!! HAAHAAHAA!!!
HowlingMoonCinemas what? The movies did so good lol
ThePsychoBunny 44
Oh, they did! Absolutely! But, I'm just talking about the CGI special effects, not the story and great character creations. Those were great. However, a movie that was entirely terrible on all grounds, was the movie "Spawn"! look at so many idiots that actually loved that movie! Someone once told me that it was the greatest movie he ever saw - that it was even way better than the Batman movies! PAAHAAHAA!!! Spawn not only had some of the worst CGI I've ever seen in my life in the movies, but the story, the dialog, the acting and the lead actor were all a huge laugh after another! I place that movie somewhere in the middle of my list of the "top 20 worst movies I've ever seen in my entire life!"
lol that legolas animation is still pretty good today, and was amazing ten years ago, so i think the oscar was well deserved :p
The Last Airbender movie, just all of it
lol
TRON (modern version) i know its meant to be a video game film but all the characters are real except the main protagonist who has no emotion and looks plastic
+T Nich i respectfully disagree
+T Nich Are you talking about the beginning where they used CGI to make Jeff Bridges look young again? Because I didn't like that either. But everything else looked great to me!
+Julian Soler-Claudio actually CGI was decent and quite enjoyable. the actor ruined it all
"The director uses visual effects like a dog uses a gun; sometimes hilariously, often incorrectly, and occasionally to an utterly tragic effect." :D
Legolas? Elves are supposed to be extremely light and be crazy agile on their feet. Most of that shot is actually real. The super burly brawl is the last fight in revolutions, you are talking about the burly brawl and 99% of it cgi augmented reality based. Meaning you didn't notice the CGI most of the time. The only true pure cgi in it is when neo knocks mr smith up. Everything is just augmented reality with CGI.
Slam Jackson they still look like shit
Neo . . . knocked Agent Smith up?
Even for an Elf the elephant scene is too over the top. regardless of good or bad cgi.
I laughed out loud at that car crash in along came a spider
My favorite album!!!! Zep all day!!!!!!!
+Raidernick27 nah, Physical Graffiti is better
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Then you haven't saw car crush scene from In Time.
LotR is from 2013(2003 *edited). They started the production in the end of 90's. The CGI wasn't bad for the time.
Edited: I wrote the year wrong. RotK was released in december of 2003.
Return of the King was from 2005, visual effects are usually one of the last things done so were likely completed in 2004ish.
I wrote wrong. I was trying to say 2003, not 13. Was not from 2005 the movie was released in december of 2003. But they filmed the 3 movies in a row. The first one released in 2001. They spent more than 1 and a half year just filming. So the production of the movies started in the end of 90's. So the effects was not from 2004. Because the 3 movies uses the same tecnologies, and are very similar in visual aspects. It's an old movie already. The effects where good for his time.
Yep my error, it was 2003. Likely the effects are around 2001ish than. I concur it looked great for the time, that one scene hasn;t aged well but most of the movie still looks damn good. Where as the scene from the Bond film was laughed at even when it was in theatres
I'm a huge fan of the TV show Babylon 5 which was one of the first to use CGI, the space battles still look OK but damn do any interiors or other things with CGI look ghastly(it was from 1994-98)
DouglasEdward84 Yep, didn't not aged well at all. That scene is weird do watch now. Even the far takes from battles if you watch the bluray on a big TV, looks like a strategy game.
You forgot Resident evil when the monster thing comes out of that crate it looks so bad there but later in the movie it looks good
3:44 hahaha perfect absolutely perfect "WHAT are you SAYING Colonel? Is this a list of your 11 secret herbs and spices?" the British accent made it even better
That scorpion king guy's face looks like a Sims character's lol
"the stupid horrible turtles"
The only thing good from "Cat Woman" ,was Halle Berry in a Cat Woman costume
yep
+Brian Powers doesnt she herpes? i heard she did
+A Veteran I legit would take the herpes hit if it came from Halle Berry
The car should have flattened her then sped off and hired a team of lawyers to clear up the mess
The Graham Revell music and the titles were good too. IF they slowed down the jumping around a bit, it would help a great deal. However those skin tones in that outfit were gorgeous. And what's his face as her costar was worthy.
The Mummy Returns' Rock monster was actually unfinished, ILM simply didn't have enough time to make it half decent before the film was released.
Maybe they should have made time, since it's their GODDAMN JOB
@@JLConawayII You cannot just make time🤦♀️ blame the Company that rushed them. You have to request more time to work on things and they can deny them that.
I swear to god literally everything about this video had me doubled over in tears lol
Okay, I hold the unpopular view that I actually liked The Mummy Returns (Adore Rachel Weisz, and Brendan Frasier, plus the kid's sassiness and John Hannah's one-liners just make me grin) but OH. MY. GOD. That Scorpion King was BEYOND terrible, even for a film made in the early 00s... it was just... urgh, I remember watching it as a 7 year old and even as a kid I was immediately pulled out of the film...
I agree with you. I loved the movie, thought it was hilarious, but the CGI of the scorpion king was just hilariously awful.
That film had so many bad effects I even found them horrible while watching it on an horrible old tube tv.
I liked the mummy movies! Campy and corny yes... but still fun.
Yeah I was expecting this amazing reveal and then that's what we got instead.
The first one is a classic, the second one is a good film with bad effects, and the third one that they should've never made was straight trash.
How come you didn't mention the Star Wars prequels?!
+Mau Jo The CGI in those movies wasn't that bad. It's not the best, but it's not bad enough to get on the list.
+Mau Jo Because in that particular point in time it was acceptable
Whaaaaaaaat?!
Mau Jo
Just because the CGI was obvious doesn't mean it was bad. I can tell the difference between every single CGI and puppet dinosaur in every single Jurassic Park movie, but that doesn't make the CGI dinos poorly rendered.
+Mau Jo I know right I was waiting for that. The whole fucking films were a terrible CGI cluster fuck.
The Lord Of The Rings movies were made in the late 90s, I would say that they have pretty good CGI for that time period.
I think that shatknado has better special effects that the scorpion king
Shatnado? Is that like, a William Shatner tornado?
Hands down the Scorpion King was laughable. When video game cinematic can blow it away you have a real problem. Matrix fight scene, totally. It looked like they screen captured a scene from the video game. I have to say the LOTR should get some credit. That is an extremely ambitious sequence and no other example came close to the complexity involved. And at least the textures blend and the pacing was rhythmic.
I disagree with some movies, especially the 10+ years old ones.
Paulo Lameiras ikr seems unfair
As Adam pointed out, Jurassic park still looks awesome. Jurassic Park is 30 years old.
@@tafua_a *25 years old
LOL the honking noises in the video. XD
Bro haha
The "NOOOO" at the end 😂
Legolas isn't really floaty. Elves weigh pretty much nothing.
the snow scene in the fellowship of the ring. The Pass of Caradhras
The books
according to this, none of them had any "weight" whatsoever
Adam Farnham Elves are lightfooted and can defy gravity
Defying gravity? wtf is this? wicked ?
HOW DARE YOU INSULT LORD OF THE RINGS. EVERY FUCKIN SECOND OF THIS MOVIE IS PRICELESS !!!
+Michał Piskorski oh, come on, i love LOTR but you have to admit that that scene is a very bad in CGI
I love every moment of this movie, even the bad ones. This is what I call the true love
+Michał Piskorski mike preskoskies
yooka333 I can die, but after I will come back like Gandalf and put my magic stick up your haterarse
Thank you for giving every single clip a full on description instead of getting to the point. We really did need that instead of seeing the bad cgi(what we came here for) and i appreciate your attempts of wasting 5 minutes of my life. Thank you for making such good videos.
I grew up long before CGI, monsters used to just be some guy in a rubber suit...
I strongly disagree with LoTR. Do you realise when this was made? It still looks pretty amazing. It's just that now we can do a lot better, but for the time it came out they did a flawless job. You're basically saying that the merit and quality of the work is down because we have more advanced technology now, which is unfair.
Of course it deserved this oscar when it came out.
........*walks out the door*
+Justine H *stops and looks back over shoulder* hmph! *continues walking*
+daAmazin FatB0y sorry I ain't into roleplaying
Yeah I feel like the age of the movie wasn't taken into account when he made this video. I mean return of the mummy, that was relatively good, definitely not the best, but not the best.
That and Legolas is supposed to be floaty, because he's an elf very light in his feet. In the Fellowship he is the only one walking ON the snow instead of through the snow.
That scene in return of the king was certainly not bad by the standards of the time
+JakO prcek
I didn't think so either. That one seems like nitpicking.
+JakO prcek I always thought it looked horrible. There's also a scene in fellowship that looks pretty bad. The staircase collapsing in Moria that looked like a scene from Willow. The layering and effects were terrible.
There are plenty of shots in movies as bad or worse. The difference that got RoTK onto here was as mentioned in the video: It had excellent CGI in so many other places and throughout the trilogy that this case really sticks out.
zemerick13 theres down right cringey CGI moments in the TLOTR...but as you mentioned its scenes like that. Not the one mentioned in the video
+JakO prcek I guess it is an old film now but at the time (I was 11) I was all over that film!! Still love it though!
I noticed the poor CGI in Fast and Furious 8, when Diesel breaks into the facility with the submarine. Everything looks like a PS2 game.
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I love you, TH-cam.
X Men Origins: Wolverine - the bathroom scene.
yes!
+ghmongo Bang on. This tiny scene ruined the whole movie for me.
+Scott Newman Yeah, JUST that scene... -_-
+SixUK90 Well, I loved the movie. Had its flaws, but I would give it a 9/10.
+ghmongo thats when it turned into who framed roger rabbit
But most of theese films, were like from before 2005
Transformers 1 was realeased in 2007, and the still look amazing, and it wasnt just like a car crash, or a monster, the whole movie was about giant robots fighting each other in cities, and it looks really good
i think they were accusing these films of being lazy/cheap in their production. that's why they pointed out Jurassic Park from 1993, and how amazing and believable their cgi was, especially for the time. A lot of these movies had access to similar funding, so their final products are inexcusable
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A space odyssey used mostly practical effects.
what says it shouldn't be? did you read the title?
but like 10 years after jurassic park
I noticed the Legolas issue in lots of movies, but especially in Spiderman movies. When CGI human characters jump around it just looks uncanny.
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) also did the city-bending scenes in Doctor Strange. And also the Scorpion King. Let that sink in.
Why so much hate? this video is just pointing out bad CGI, which is just what it did.
+Jake Moresea (CrimDaz) This rubbish right here is exactly same list that WatchMojo made so much earlier.That is reason 4 h8.
1) It's James Patterson, not Robert Patterson
2)It's Lee Tamahori, not Tamahiro.
Come on, Adam lad
You forgot "Spawn" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"!! There's also tons of others waiting to be made fun of too!! HAAHAAHAA!!!
The Mummy Returns is pure gold. Perfect combination of cheese, bad visual effects, and actual story line.
I just love how the bald guys come into the frame at 7:22
+Dalloz Cansing That was lols
+Dalloz Cansing Even in the context of the movie itself that bit always cracks me up! Imhotep's resurrected so that he can once again have another stab at taking over the world. After all that build up only for the Scorpion King to get impaled with a spear, the guy just comes skidding to let us know how pissed off he is. NAAAAAAIIIIIIII!!!!
Top 10 Wrestlers You Didn't Know Were CGI
Lol this killed me!
the honking was pure gold haha
When I watched the matrix 2 when it first came out, my brother and I couldn't stop laughing at the fight scene.
No, you are being massively over critical of Legolas in return of the king.
+Simon Watts No, compared to the rest of the awesome cgi in LOTR, that scene was bad
+Shaggy2222 The very brief bit in FotR where he leaps off the cave troll always stood out to me as really bad, but after watching this, I'm not sure it was actually worse. It may have been, but RotK's was much longer.
I think it's more a problem of how exactly a super agile killing machine would look, leaping around on a 70 ft high, charging giant elephant, and where the point of view is, considering the PoV is super stable. No normal human could keep his centre of gravity stable and would fall off. So, being an Elf, with super reactions and super agility, he is going to look strange and rubbery compared to a human who could not do the feat in the first place.
The CGI in the first Matrix film looked better (in this example 4:04) because it wasn't CGI. They used a method that they called 'bullet time' where they shot the actors at every angle with multiple cameras surrounding them 360 degrees. In the following films they opted to do the same kind of shots entirely with CGI because it was more efficient and they could do more super natural things, didn't look as good though for sure.
I agree with the Return of the King one, it always bothered me for years
The multiple bike horns KILLED ME!
The lord of ring one is totally okay.
+Haider Ali Khichi he seems to forget that return of the king was filmed 13 years ago. I'd like to see him try to make a better cgi in 2003
+Haider Ali Khichi Yeah nothing seemed bad to me
the last airbender, when a kid hangs from the leg of the big hairy thing...
EVERYTHING in The Last Airbender was awful. It could have made the entire list.
Marc Draco It was some ok vfx there, but 90% of the film was cg and 20% of this cg was ok cg.
there never was this movie you are talking about
Not Me m.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/ this is the movie....
In regards to the Last Airbender's CG, Appa was the only huge eye sore, but many other elements (pun intended) were quite passable.
That movie just fails from the shit conceptual aspects, not CG rendering.
Shyamalan deliberately messed it up. He skews the deliberate ethnic background of each culture (Fire Nation - Japanese, Earth Kingdom - Chinese, Water Tribes - Inuit/Siberian, Air Nomads - Tibetan), where in the film the Fire Nation are Indian, Earth Kingdom amazingly remains the same, Water Tribes are white people and Air Nomads are a white kid and an ambiguously Asian guy. He apparently had no concept of martial arts, which should use as little energy as possible to deliver as much impact as they can, where in this everyone has to do a full range of body motions to achieve a minor amount of bending; the show obviously portrays the body motions and element motions as being in sync.
He asserts that fire benders only manipulate existing fire unless they're ridiculously powerful, it apparently takes four guys doing air tai chi to move a small rock, Katara's water orb is losing water while she moves it yet it never lessens in size, and Aang never actually does many of the simple airbending techniques in the show like exhaling himself up many feet into the air and softly floating back down.
The CG guys did a good job with their part of the film, but it was ultimately left in the hands of an unimaginative moron like M. Night.
The CG in Return of the King was amazing for 2003... The obvious green screen in the Mountain of Doom was worse, too.
"What are you saying Colonel?!" haha
I died at 7:24 😂😂😂
3:21
IKR what even was that :')
so did the scorpion king
Same! xD Brilliant ending
Lord of the Rings are the best films ever, I don't think the CGI was that bad on the Mumakil but I see where you're coming from.
That Soundeffects kills it all XD epic !
"What the hell is this" 😂😂
Omg the scorpion King actually looks like something from GTA IV
Return of the King? NOPE. And never make fun will smith and his dog in I am Legend, I will fucking mad.
+Jack Troughton It was obvious he was trolling. "Like, obvious to the level of sad for anyone who didn't get it."
One of the ingredients at 3:47 says "the ashes of my enemies"
I almost thought Andy Serkis was voicing this video :D
Well narrated!
I think, for at least concerning the time they came out, Lord of the Rings and the especially the Matrix should be forgiven.
No, the Matrix scene looked like shit at the time. I remember watching it and thinking "Good, this looks so fake"
Which is weird, cause lots of the effect in the Matrix were much better.
lavorrin is absolutely right
Come on THE RETURN OF THE KING that CGI wasn't bad.
Indeed.
+Viktor Polzer I wouldn't know, I never watched it because Fellowship was so bad that I tapped out for any other LOTR offerings, ever.
+fisharmor ...
+fisharmor Moron
+fisharmor Do you want a cookie? No one cares if you didn't watch a movie, its your own problem. Let's not lie, you wrote that comment just to be able to bash the movie when someone gives you a different answer. Well my friend, i believe you came at the wrong place, because no one fucking cares.
With very few expections such as Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, Star Trek III, Deep Blue Sea, I Am Legend, Independence Day, The Matrix,
Earthquake, The Hindenburg, King Kong, Alone Came a Spider, Die Another Day, The Mummy Returns and Avatar 1&2 were runaway hits with
state-of-the-art special effects, but for some others like Catwoman, Dune, Streets of Fire, City Heat, The Island, The Survivors, To Be or Not to Be,
Two of a Kind, Pennies from Heaven, Brainstorm, The Border, Blue Sky among others got a lot of terrible CGI/matte painting moments in many
big budget movies.
"This would look in a PlayStation 2 cutscene" lol
i know why so many dislikes...cause fanboys of these movies cant accept mistakes ._.+
i'm such a great sherluk
+sherluk homs No because these top 10 video channels are fucking crap. Every one, every time.
Return of the King released in 2003, looks fine for a 13 year old film.
+Fury Josh and _much_ better than the Hobbit movies.
+John Harvey That's cause Peter Jackson made the LOTR films out of his passion for the books, and The Hobbit films out of his passion for the profit.
+John Harvey Yea defo!
+Fury Josh bro starwars, 2001 a space odessy, jurrasic park, E.T all of came nearly 30. 40, 50 years ago
its not about the technology but how you use does matter,, i loved every scene in the LOTR's movies except this,, i was shocked seeing this for the 1st time in theater n thought,, man wtfuck was this
+VINOD KUMAR. S Have you been taking those drugs again vinod?
That dog with a gun simile is absolutely perfect
That squeaky toy sound, omg 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
herbs and spices 😂😂😂 this video is my new favorite
I'm a simple man. I hear Adam, I click like.
yup
+Pinhead Larry I hear Adam, I #Cancelwhatculturewrestlingnetwork
yeap
+JacobysFinest Why is everyone in love with Adam's voice. Don't get me wrong I am too, but why?
soonsims charisma and his dry sense of humor is infectious
After watching this video it has only proved to me that the LoTR trilogy still stands strong even with the sub-par CGI. And is still ,in my opinion, the best movies of all time.
JustAGuy You'll wake up with a horse head in your bed talking like that.
You have superior taste.
Not having the Dog from Toy Story is an epic fail. Legendary bad CGI
I always thought they could have done a better job of some of the quiddich scenes in philosopher's stone
Hahaha, priceless, the way Imhotep kneels and screams in agony at the sight of such bad CGI from ILM is a fantastic touch of comedy.
Yeah, I love that movie, but what is the Wax-Man doing in my movie?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first broom flying lesson, and a horrible CGI Neville Longbottom falling from that wall he hooked his cape onto... Just sad CGI...
+MrZaphaell What about the toilet troll?
What the hell!? The King Kong dinosaur stampede looked amazing.
Pissed off Bambi and the pissed off family. Spectacular!
"Bad computers", yes, because no humans had anything to do with the making of the CGI. Computers just made it. All by themselves.
+Stoney Lonsome "Are you really this thick"
He didn't complain about the movies. He complained about the CGI. Stop hating.
+Tohtori Kumiankka I was just going to post this. He's not saying the films are bad (except maybe the Ring 2), he's saying those CG cutscenes were sloppy.
+Shmandalf Exactly!
***** I know right!
+Nullik Yeah! Definitely agree.
It's notable how many of these failed CGI scenes also incorporate ludicrous, over-the-top physics. Like one spawns the other.
I work in VFX, just wanted to say... These movies aren't made by computers, but by PEOPLE using computers. It's like saying that the book series A Song of Ice and Fire was made by a computer because that's what the author used to write it.
Just wanted to point that out.
When you mentioned LOTR....I was like no no no no
It was James Patterson that wrote Along Came a Spider, not Robert. Yeah, I'm that guy.
You gotta be kidding me. The Legolas scene is absolutely awesome. Even today I hardly notice CGI in it. His movements are more believable then ones presented in Hobbit, and Lotr was made over 10 years ago.
the issue is all of the good CGI gets completely ignored. like the mummy 2, that movie had a lot of REALLY REALLY good CGI... but it gets completely overlooked because everyone ignores it.