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The best deaging I've seen was Michael Douglas as Hank Pym in the 70s in "Ant-Man." Thankfully, the FX artists had NO lack of imagery of Douglas at the desired age. But they did execute the recrafting so perfectly that it actually made me murmur, "Whoah!" (Also helpful: They KNEW they HAD to get it perfect and actively strived with no "good enough" in the equation.)
Came to say exactly that, maybe it was me being a teen at the time, but seeing him as a young man, when I very much went into it expecting a 70 year old Michael Douglas, was such a trip at the time. Of course every prequel does it now, but it was so wild in it's first few uses.
Not a film but a very deserved mention! In the TV show The Pretender, when we'd see "archived footage" from decades earlier, they did an amazing job of deaging Sidney, the creepy smoker (whose name I forget at the moment) nd others. They not only lacked the CGI tech for it when the program was in production but TV budgets generally would not allow for "Cadillac style" work anyway. But the practical FX/make-up folks did awesome on that show!
Gosh and here I am just watching movies and enjoying them when I should have been watching them frame by frame on 4K and nitpicking the shit out of them. Guess I missed the point of these movies huh?
Best de-aging in recent times, Kurt Russell in "Monarch." When they flashback and forth between Kurt and Wyatt Russell's performance as Lee Shaw, you forget you're watching two actors in the same family.
The car explosion in CASINO could've been better if they had shot the car's rear instead of shooting sideways This way, it would've made the cut more believable, and no dummy would've been required
@@daviddrake5991 i noticed something was off when i saw it.... but i was a mid teen and couldn't figure out what it was.... same with "robocop 1" when the guy fell out the window i think i was 10 or so.... that looks off as well...but didn't know why hahahah
My question is why are you slamming Jurassic Park III??? The rendering of the original third film is what makes it stand out of the entire franchise, and that spino was in fact the largest animatronic for film. The biggest shame was not being able to film the spinos demise because of how expensive the rendering shot would've been to get the raptors to attack the massive animal....
Because of how bad the In Time car crash was, I always thought it was just a badly rendered CGI scene. It still looks like it. But knowing that it was a practical effect now just floors me!
I haven't seen the film, but watching this I'm still not convinced it is practical. I think a model car would look better than that. The front end damage that appears is definitely CGI
@@davesmith1588 Glad it's not just me! :) (I just had the thought: Maybe it was a form of stop motion modeling and THAT"S why the physics seemed so wonky!) 🤔
I'm 90% sure WhatCulture got that one wrong. The shot from behind as it flew off the road could have been a model. But not the second shot with it tumbling. The physics are wrong.
@@StevenRoy I agree. Although, as I replied to someone else a little earlier, it might have been a really bad stop motion sequence. That could also explain the wonky physics. 😂
@@StevenRoy I think the physics look wrong because it's being guided by a wire to flip and land a certain way. It gets an extra tug to make sure it lands at the bottom.
Never really paid too much attention to the lack of crowds on the beach in Dunkirk. The bit that stuck in my mind was the obvious broom handle holding the propeller on when he scuttled the spitfire.
How about using cgi for that monstrosity that was Bella and whats-his-name's baby in the last Twilight movie? Should've gone cgi instead of practical for that one...that thing was nightmare fuel!
The bomb in "Oppenheimer". Listen, I like practical effects as much as the next guy and Nolan is a genius yada yada, but in this particular instance he should have used GCI. I mean, James Cameron did it more than 30 years ago in T2 and it looked fabulous. The explision in Oppenheimer doesn't look credible at all, ridiculously small, not at all like a nuclear detonation
Holy crap! I have seen so many people lauding that scene in oppenheimer for it's use of practical effects, and i'm sitting there watching it thinking this looks *NOTHING* like a nuclear detonation. It was so laughably bad it looks like a standard explosion of a much much lower yield (because it was) not realizing that at the scale that nuclear weapons operate (especially in the kiloton range) just do not look like that. at all. It would have been 100x better to do it in CGI.
Thanks, it's refreshing to have a video like this for once. In an age where everything CGI is evil and directors blatantly lie staying everything is practical.
8:28 OK, yeah, if you're mucking up the practical with so much digital tweaking, then (as the vid asked) why bother? Addendum: I have a very high respect for Cruise's dedication and attitude and ability. But I'm calling it: Tom Cruise will die in an insane practical film stunt that goes [the wrong] 5% off plan.
Are you sure the car crash in In Time wasn't CG? Because the ridiculous way it flops around seems too CG frame animated like to be a model effect. Hell, I've seen the model car flip scene in Underworld that had an unrealistic flip, and it certainly is noticeably a model car while the flip in In Time looked like it was CG.
The best use of deageing effect done is in the Indian Movie FAN, because throughout the whole movie the two lead characters were played by Shah Rukh Khan, one his actual age and the other one half his age. Both characters appear throughout the movie till the climax.
I'm totally going to disagree with number 1 there. The rubber dummy in the Kingsmen scene, just adds to the "cartoonish" over the top nature of the movie and especially that particular scene. This is not a movie to be taken 100% seriously.
I have to admit that I like the opening scene of Casino for all the wrong reasons. I don't think that was Scorsese's intention, but starting with a car explosion is so exaggerated that I can't help but laugh and the use of the mannequin makes everything look like a Zucker brothers movie.
If you are going to mention Dunkirk. How could you not mention the scenes set in Weymouth where you can see the Jurassic skyline tower in the background. I can guarantee that was not there during that time.
the greatest use of deaging is robert de niro in the irishman because he probably got the fattest pay check for agreeing to it maybe harrison ford indiana jones
Apocalypto, visually stunning film with quite a few practical effects, I'm not sure how much CGI, and one muppet. Near the end of the film the bad guys are attacked by a panther. Many of the establishing shots use a live animal, and I perfectly understand not bringing it and the actors together for the fight shots. But the puppet used when the panther is killed is just jarringly bad.
Yeah but everyone knew Dark Phoenix would be bad before it came out, whereas people were genuinely excited for Apocalypse after how good DOFP, First Class and Deadpool were, only for it to be an awful film that let everyone down. Dark Phoenix may be worse and killed the franchise, but Apocalypse is more disappointing. Dark Phoenix wouldn't have failed as badly as it did if it wasn't for the massive loss of goodwill from Dark Phoenix first
Should've definitely had the nuke scene from Oppenheimer on this list. Very underwhelming. Jurassic Park III and MI: Fallout are just stray bullets in my opinion.
A lot of people are going to comment on this one but I appreciated the Aging technology in Tron legacy we've come a long way from there but you have to start somewhere and that was a pretty big stepping stone. And because it was clue the computer program on the grid it was more believable that it wasn't a perfect rendering
I would probably say the best de-aging are Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing in Rogue One since Peter Cushing was dead at the time,but looked like he was from 1977
He said "most disappointing", not worst. Everyone knew dark Phoenix would be bad before it came out, whereas people were genuinely excited for Apocalypse after how good First Class, DOFP and Deadpool were, and it ended up being a terrible movie that disappointed everyone, especially regarding the titular villain. Dark Phoenix wouldn't't have bombed as bad as it did if it wasn't for the massive loss of goodwill because of Apocalypse
X-men: Apocalypse is FAAAAARRRRRR from the worst movie in the set. That dubious honor still goes to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Even if we're only counting non-spin-off movies in the series, X3 is still way worse. Apocalypse has some redeeming moment in the movie like Magneto's family in Europe and his wrathful response to them getting harmed, or the underground cage fights with captive mutants or the mall scene. The Wolverine prequel and X3 don't have anything nearly as good.
Everyone knew Magneto's family was gonna die the second they showed up so their deaths are nowhere near as impactful as the film wants them to be. The scene is only good because of Fassbenders performance, not the scene itself. Those other movies you mentioned may be worse but Apocalypse still isn't a very good or entertaining film on its own.
@@rorylynch7775 Given how little he's given to work with in any movie after First Class, any great character moment from Fassbender is noteworthy. Also, agreed on Apocalypse, it's still a bad movie, just far from being the worst in the X-Men set, because of how many other stinkers there are. Sadly, one of the best of the whole bunch is barely talked about, because it got screwed over with delays due to the Marvel buyout of Fox and then the pandemic. New Mutants was a slam dunk that had a small cast, single location and served as a nice horror story with a "bottle episode" feel to it. It's a shame so much marketing love was given to lesser flicks in the series.
Disagree about the Dunkirk "CGI crowd scenes would've made it better". CGI crowd scenes are woefully terrible and so obviously fake, no matter what the budget or the movie cred. Lord of the Rings CGI armies of Orcs v Rohan are as blatantly false and lame as any B-grade budget flick with swarms of pixel zombies. CGI studios have perfected individuals, they need to work a LOT more on crowd scenes.
I think the entry on orphan: first kill is enough to say it shouldnt have happened at all. Not that CG de-aging should have been used. You went from an 11 year old playing a 9 year old to a 22 year old playing the same role. the sequel should have happened 2 years after the original, not 10 years later lol.
Sometimes you don't get to follow-up as soon as you want to. Maybe they should have gotten another actor, but to say it shouldn't have happened is off-base. It has pretty high RT and audience scores. It's not a bad movie. It's got a really cool twist.
@@rome8180 i dont care about RT. Also I never said it was a bad movie, I didnt see it. I just think that still using the same actress thats 10 years older was a poor idea and probably a sign that the movie itself had outlived its shelf life.
This accent drives me nuts!! Childah. Casinoah. Killingah. Impressivah. Threeah. Stop with the extra "ah" at the end of every sentence. I can't even watch this to the end.
For the record "standing on your knees" is called kneeling.
It wouldn't be a WhatCulture video without an inexplicable verbal mistake.
Exactly what I thought. Cheers for getting there first and making me seem slightly less pedantic.
The best deaging I've seen was Michael Douglas as Hank Pym in the 70s in "Ant-Man." Thankfully, the FX artists had NO lack of imagery of Douglas at the desired age. But they did execute the recrafting so perfectly that it actually made me murmur, "Whoah!" (Also helpful: They KNEW they HAD to get it perfect and actively strived with no "good enough" in the equation.)
Came to say exactly that, maybe it was me being a teen at the time, but seeing him as a young man, when I very much went into it expecting a 70 year old Michael Douglas, was such a trip at the time. Of course every prequel does it now, but it was so wild in it's first few uses.
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Agree with all except kingsman. The point was to be comically over the top. Otherwise, good list
The best anti aging is Kurt Russell in guardians vol 2. Almost entirely practice.
De-aged RDJ in Civil War was pretty impressive.
Not a film but a very deserved mention! In the TV show The Pretender, when we'd see "archived footage" from decades earlier, they did an amazing job of deaging Sidney, the creepy smoker (whose name I forget at the moment) nd others. They not only lacked the CGI tech for it when the program was in production but TV budgets generally would not allow for "Cadillac style" work anyway. But the practical FX/make-up folks did awesome on that show!
i love that show
Gosh and here I am just watching movies and enjoying them when I should have been watching them frame by frame on 4K and nitpicking the shit out of them. Guess I missed the point of these movies huh?
Best de-aging in recent times, Kurt Russell in "Monarch." When they flashback and forth between Kurt and Wyatt Russell's performance as Lee Shaw, you forget you're watching two actors in the same family.
This has to be the first time that anyone has ever said the Phantom Menace would be improved by *more* CGI.
Cooper moving the fake baby's arms is awesome! I'm sorry - it gets me every time😂.
the spino animatronic from JP3 was absolute perfection. having it be cgi 100% of the time would've ruined the effect
The car explosion in CASINO could've been better if they had shot the car's rear instead of shooting sideways
This way, it would've made the cut more believable, and no dummy would've been required
People only noticed when they upgraded to 4k resolution on rerelease.
@@daviddrake5991 i noticed something was off when i saw it.... but i was a mid teen and couldn't figure out what it was.... same with "robocop 1" when the guy fell out the window i think i was 10 or so.... that looks off as well...but didn't know why hahahah
Kingsmen church scene is golden as is.
My question is why are you slamming Jurassic Park III??? The rendering of the original third film is what makes it stand out of the entire franchise, and that spino was in fact the largest animatronic for film. The biggest shame was not being able to film the spinos demise because of how expensive the rendering shot would've been to get the raptors to attack the massive animal....
Because of how bad the In Time car crash was, I always thought it was just a badly rendered CGI scene. It still looks like it. But knowing that it was a practical effect now just floors me!
I haven't seen the film, but watching this I'm still not convinced it is practical. I think a model car would look better than that. The front end damage that appears is definitely CGI
@@davesmith1588 Glad it's not just me! :) (I just had the thought: Maybe it was a form of stop motion modeling and THAT"S why the physics seemed so wonky!) 🤔
I'm 90% sure WhatCulture got that one wrong. The shot from behind as it flew off the road could have been a model. But not the second shot with it tumbling. The physics are wrong.
@@StevenRoy I agree. Although, as I replied to someone else a little earlier, it might have been a really bad stop motion sequence. That could also explain the wonky physics. 😂
@@StevenRoy I think the physics look wrong because it's being guided by a wire to flip and land a certain way. It gets an extra tug to make sure it lands at the bottom.
Best use of "De-Aging" has to go to Ozzy Osbourne's plastic surgeon!!! Lol
The best deaging ever was when the Stan Winston team for Jurassic Park turned petroleum based latex into dinosaurs. 🤣
Never really paid too much attention to the lack of crowds on the beach in Dunkirk. The bit that stuck in my mind was the obvious broom handle holding the propeller on when he scuttled the spitfire.
Best use of de-aging cgi was Sean Young's cameo in Blade Runner 2049.
My favorite usage of digital de-aging was of Samuel L. Jackson in Ms. Marvel.
How about using cgi for that monstrosity that was Bella and whats-his-name's baby in the last Twilight movie? Should've gone cgi instead of practical for that one...that thing was nightmare fuel!
I don't know if it counts, but The Machinist can invest in some CGI before putting Christian Bale's physical well-being at risk.
The deaging of Pacino in Irishman i think is the best so far
Best deaging CGI was DEFINITELY in Avengers: Endgame - when Paul Rudd gets turned into that baby, looks SO REAL.
Best deaging was the one they used on Peter Cushing in Rogue One, from skeleton to living human being!
The bomb in "Oppenheimer". Listen, I like practical effects as much as the next guy and Nolan is a genius yada yada, but in this particular instance he should have used GCI. I mean, James Cameron did it more than 30 years ago in T2 and it looked fabulous. The explision in Oppenheimer doesn't look credible at all, ridiculously small, not at all like a nuclear detonation
Holy crap! I have seen so many people lauding that scene in oppenheimer for it's use of practical effects, and i'm sitting there watching it thinking this looks *NOTHING* like a nuclear detonation. It was so laughably bad it looks like a standard explosion of a much much lower yield (because it was) not realizing that at the scale that nuclear weapons operate (especially in the kiloton range) just do not look like that. at all. It would have been 100x better to do it in CGI.
De-aged Indiana Jones in Dial of Destiny was the best I've seen so far
Thanks, it's refreshing to have a video like this for once. In an age where everything CGI is evil and directors blatantly lie staying everything is practical.
IDK, compared to the Twilight CGI abomination of a baby, I'll take the fake American Sniper baby any day.
8:28 OK, yeah, if you're mucking up the practical with so much digital tweaking, then (as the vid asked) why bother? Addendum: I have a very high respect for Cruise's dedication and attitude and ability. But I'm calling it: Tom Cruise will die in an insane practical film stunt that goes [the wrong] 5% off plan.
Are you sure the car crash in In Time wasn't CG? Because the ridiculous way it flops around seems too CG frame animated like to be a model effect. Hell, I've seen the model car flip scene in Underworld that had an unrealistic flip, and it certainly is noticeably a model car while the flip in In Time looked like it was CG.
The car crash in In Time IS fully CGI, which is why it looks so horrible.
The best use of deageing effect done is in the Indian Movie FAN, because throughout the whole movie the two lead characters were played by Shah Rukh Khan, one his actual age and the other one half his age. Both characters appear throughout the movie till the climax.
Don't know if it was my favourite, but in Logan, pretty good de-aging of Hugh Jackman for the X-24
it is CGI in In Time, just really bad...
I came here to say this. It's clearly cgi.
Bad/rushed.
I'm totally going to disagree with number 1 there. The rubber dummy in the Kingsmen scene, just adds to the "cartoonish" over the top nature of the movie and especially that particular scene. This is not a movie to be taken 100% seriously.
I have to admit that I like the opening scene of Casino for all the wrong reasons. I don't think that was Scorsese's intention, but starting with a car explosion is so exaggerated that I can't help but laugh and the use of the mannequin makes everything look like a Zucker brothers movie.
“The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” did a fine job w/having in De-aging the MC.👎🏻
Amazing video what culture,fantastic job. Happy new year
Where is your table of contents?
If you are going to mention Dunkirk. How could you not mention the scenes set in Weymouth where you can see the Jurassic skyline tower in the background. I can guarantee that was not there during that time.
the greatest use of deaging is robert de niro in the irishman because he probably got the fattest pay check for agreeing to it maybe harrison ford indiana jones
Apocalypto, visually stunning film with quite a few practical effects, I'm not sure how much CGI, and one muppet. Near the end of the film the bad guys are attacked by a panther. Many of the establishing shots use a live animal, and I perfectly understand not bringing it and the actors together for the fight shots. But the puppet used when the panther is killed is just jarringly bad.
9:33 I think Dark Phoenix, not Apocalypse, was the biggest disappointment by far. It's basically the one that killed the franchise.
Yeah but everyone knew Dark Phoenix would be bad before it came out, whereas people were genuinely excited for Apocalypse after how good DOFP, First Class and Deadpool were, only for it to be an awful film that let everyone down. Dark Phoenix may be worse and killed the franchise, but Apocalypse is more disappointing. Dark Phoenix wouldn't have failed as badly as it did if it wasn't for the massive loss of goodwill from Dark Phoenix first
Hello Gareth nice to hear from you again
Video begins (to be garbage) at the 4:30 mark. Well, at least the awesome spino doesn't look as fake as you being a critic.
Should've definitely had the nuke scene from Oppenheimer on this list. Very underwhelming. Jurassic Park III and MI: Fallout are just stray bullets in my opinion.
A lot of people are going to comment on this one but I appreciated the Aging technology in Tron legacy we've come a long way from there but you have to start somewhere and that was a pretty big stepping stone. And because it was clue the computer program on the grid it was more believable that it wasn't a perfect rendering
"Made her stand on her knees", or kneel as the rest of the world would have said. Do you proof read your scripts in any way at all?
I feel like the Mission Impossible movies are all just increasingly elaborate suicide attempts by Tom Cruise…
(Mostly kidding, please don’t die, Tom.)
I would probably say the best de-aging are Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing in Rogue One since Peter Cushing was dead at the time,but looked like he was from 1977
Benjamin Button
the worst xmen movie is by far dark phoenix not apocolypse
He said "most disappointing", not worst. Everyone knew dark Phoenix would be bad before it came out, whereas people were genuinely excited for Apocalypse after how good First Class, DOFP and Deadpool were, and it ended up being a terrible movie that disappointed everyone, especially regarding the titular villain. Dark Phoenix wouldn't't have bombed as bad as it did if it wasn't for the massive loss of goodwill because of Apocalypse
liked dunkirk when it came out and his commitment to the practical effects but now looking back i don't like it and was disappointed
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X-men: Apocalypse is FAAAAARRRRRR from the worst movie in the set. That dubious honor still goes to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Even if we're only counting non-spin-off movies in the series, X3 is still way worse.
Apocalypse has some redeeming moment in the movie like Magneto's family in Europe and his wrathful response to them getting harmed, or the underground cage fights with captive mutants or the mall scene.
The Wolverine prequel and X3 don't have anything nearly as good.
Everyone knew Magneto's family was gonna die the second they showed up so their deaths are nowhere near as impactful as the film wants them to be. The scene is only good because of Fassbenders performance, not the scene itself. Those other movies you mentioned may be worse but Apocalypse still isn't a very good or entertaining film on its own.
@@rorylynch7775 Given how little he's given to work with in any movie after First Class, any great character moment from Fassbender is noteworthy.
Also, agreed on Apocalypse, it's still a bad movie, just far from being the worst in the X-Men set, because of how many other stinkers there are.
Sadly, one of the best of the whole bunch is barely talked about, because it got screwed over with delays due to the Marvel buyout of Fox and then the pandemic.
New Mutants was a slam dunk that had a small cast, single location and served as a nice horror story with a "bottle episode" feel to it.
It's a shame so much marketing love was given to lesser flicks in the series.
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Sounds like Orphan: First Kill should not have been made at all.
it was an alright movie...but if they used the alternative ending... they coulda made a sequel i woulda preferred that more
Disagree about the Dunkirk "CGI crowd scenes would've made it better". CGI crowd scenes are woefully terrible and so obviously fake, no matter what the budget or the movie cred. Lord of the Rings CGI armies of Orcs v Rohan are as blatantly false and lame as any B-grade budget flick with swarms of pixel zombies. CGI studios have perfected individuals, they need to work a LOT more on crowd scenes.
This was annoyingly nitpicky…
I think the entry on orphan: first kill is enough to say it shouldnt have happened at all. Not that CG de-aging should have been used. You went from an 11 year old playing a 9 year old to a 22 year old playing the same role. the sequel should have happened 2 years after the original, not 10 years later lol.
Sometimes you don't get to follow-up as soon as you want to. Maybe they should have gotten another actor, but to say it shouldn't have happened is off-base. It has pretty high RT and audience scores. It's not a bad movie. It's got a really cool twist.
@@rome8180 i dont care about RT. Also I never said it was a bad movie, I didnt see it. I just think that still using the same actress thats 10 years older was a poor idea and probably a sign that the movie itself had outlived its shelf life.
This accent drives me nuts!! Childah. Casinoah. Killingah. Impressivah. Threeah. Stop with the extra "ah" at the end of every sentence. I can't even watch this to the end.
The best de-aging was in the Book of Boba Fett, the de-aging of Luke while he is training Grogu.