CGI isn't a virtual fountain abuse just
yet hey everyone I'm Rebecca and welcome
to watchmojo.com all that means we're
looking at the times that CGI was used
to turn back the clock on actors and
actresses to less than perfect effect
the technology is getting better but it
still has a long way to go all right
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number 10 Patrick Stewart and Ian
McKellen x-men The Last Stand the first
entry on our list is also the first
major use of this technology and while
it's far from the worst it's easy to see
that this was an early attempt at the
effect I still don't know why I'm here
couldn't you just make them say yes yes
I could but it's not my way before James
McAvoy and Michael Fassbender took over
playing the younger versions of the
characters Patrick Stewart and Ian
McKellen were digitally D aged for a
flashback scene in x-men The Last Stand
yeah because I need you
we're not going to have to meet every
one of them in person like a lot of
later entries the effect is a little
disconcerting with both actors looking
mostly like they've had some wrinkles
airbrushed off Sir Patrick was also d
aged for a cameo in x-men origins
Wolverine and the effect was similarly
uncomfortable my name is Charles Xavier
I'm a mutant like you I can hear your
thoughts yes and I can hear yours number
9 Tim o Adam Morrison Aquaman this
big-budget DC spectacle has no shortage
of fantastical CGI creations but there's
one effect that's even harder to believe
in the giant sea monsters I was gonna
make you some eggs just don't eat my dog
okay for the film's opening scene New
Zealand actor Tim o Adam Morrison got
the D aging treatment to portray the
young father of the hero the effect
doesn't quite land and Morrison's hair
and teeth in particular just don't look
natural I'm Tom keeper of lighthouse we
can't speak for Queen Atlanta but if
this strange-looking site was our first
glimpse of a surface dweller
we probably hightail it back to the
ocean and take our chances with the
monsters from the trench
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number eight Dwayne Johnson Central
Intelligence okay we're gonna add a
sizable asterisk to this one given that
the film in question is a comedy and the
effect is definitely intended to be
weird and off-putting that being said
the CGI recreation of a younger
out-of-shape version of The Rock's
character is just too creepy looking not
to mention the famously buff actor
appears with his face CGI'd onto the
body of a less than muscular actor and
is put through some digital D aging
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watching the character get humiliated in
front of his classmates would be bad
enough even without how awkward and
uncomfortable the effect makes the
entire sequence and in comparison Kevin
Hart's D aging is pretty believable I
for one will push myself at every stage
and every step number seven Arnold
Schwarzenegger Terminator Genisys The
Terminator franchise is all about going
back and rewriting the past something
this entry did in spades by returning to
an iconic moment from the first film
nice night for a walk
wash day tomorrow nothing clean right
nothing cleaned right this guy's a
couple cans short of a six-pack your
clothes give them to me in the scene we
once again see Arnie's iconic t800
arrive in 1980s LA and confront some
nearby punks rather than recycling
footage from the original film a younger
Arnie is recreated using CGI nice night
for a walk
wash day tomorrow nothing clean right
nothing clean right in a way this is
actually the closest The Terminator has
ever truly looked to a creepy robot
draped in human skin with dead lifeless
eyes and subtly off facial movements but
we doubt that's what the filmmakers were
really going for also hey wasn't one of
those Punk's originally bill paxton
number six Orlando Bloom The Hobbit
trilogy in the mythology of JRR
Tolkien's middle-earth elves are ageless
divine beings possessed of an ethereal
and otherworldly beauty I cannot go back
where will you go I do not know under
normal circumstances this isn't that
hard to pull off on screen but Orlando
Bloom's returned to the franchise
presented a problem given that the actor
had visibly aged to return his visit to
an elven youthfulness CGI was used for
his scenes in the film giving his face a
strange Sheen and glow that while
definately otherworldly probably wasn't
what Tolkien had in mind do not think I
won't kill you dwarf it would be my
pleasure
Legolas also does enough gravity-defying
acrobatics over the course of the movie
that his whole character just feels like
one big unfinished effect
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number five the losers Club it chapter
two the first installment of the epic
two-part adaptation of Stephen King's
legendary novel proved once and for all
that the stigma around child actors is
about as dead as poor Georgie den bro
but there's still one problem with child
actors that the sequel could not solve
they age while the second film put the
focus largely on the adult versions of
the losers club during their rematch
with penny wise some flashback scenes
were added that required the original
actors to return what the tick is this
how'd you build it this proved
problematic as a few of them had
noticeably grown since filming the first
movie and the CGI used to return them to
a younger appearance scared some viewers
almost as much as it itself what happens
when you put your hand on the other
pillar professor okay you see this is
exactly why there are safety codes why
we have permits this place is a
deathtrap you understand that number
four Clark Gregg Captain Marvel one of
our favorite surprises in this MCU epic
was the return of Clark Greg's agent
Phil Coulson a stalwart SHIELD agent who
helped tie together the first phase of
the Marvel Cinematic Universe they're
not down here except while samuel
l.jackson got an absolutely incredible
digital makeover for his starring role
greg's d aging clearly took the backseat
so is it true that the Kree burned your
eye out because you refused to give them
the tesseract
Coulson's transformation just doesn't
hold a candle to Furies with a
strange-looking hairline and rubbery
facial movements made all the more
noticeable in comparison to his boss I'm
sorry to report that we still haven't
found the tesseract I'm sure it'll turn
up somewhere
I'll let you know when it does
then what sir we have no idea what other
intergalactic threats are out there and
one woman security force had a prior
commitment on the other side of the
universe our fan theory is that this
younger Coulson is a Skrull who isn't as
good at shape-shifting as some of his
friends
keep practicing buddy number three
Sylvester Stalone grudge match digitally
de-aging a movie star is a hard thing to
pull off at the best of times and scenes
that require a lot of movement make the
effect way harder to accomplish
convincingly
1982 Pittsburgh razor and kid both
undefeated top-ranked contenders divide
the city in a spectacular war you know
what typically involves a whole lot of
movement a boxing match for a flashback
scene in this 2013 film a CGI recreation
of a young Sly Stallone faces off
against a similarly D aged Robert De
Niro the rematch drew the biggest
television audience since the Thrilla in
Manilla nine years earlier but this time
the story was different
razor soundly defeated kid in a lopsided
victory that was over in four rounds the
effect looks like well exactly that in
effect an unconvincing CGI mask of
Stallone's faced haphazardly slapped on
a younger man's body De Niro also looks
off butts line definitely got the short
end of the stick here today I'm
announcing my retirement from
professional boxing number two Johnny
Depp pirates of the caribbean dead men
tell no tales the Pirates of the
Caribbean franchise has brought some
truly terrifying CGI monsters to life
and the legions of deep sea monsters and
undead pirates are kind of scary too
we can probably all agree that the
Pirates movies got kind of rocky as time
went on and Johnny Depp's creepy CGI
face in the fifth installment was
probably the final nail in the coffin
for many viewers it's like the total
package for bad D aging creepy unnatural
skin lifeless eyes and an overall sense
that you're watching something
artificial and unnatural thankfully the
scene doesn't last long but the
lingering shots of the d aged Depp still
haunt our dreams one Jeff Bridges Tron
Legacy way back in 2010 Digital D aging
had been used minimally for cameos and
flashbacks and then one day something
happened
something hardener but for the sequel to
cult favorite sci-fi flick Tron the
technology was used far more to create a
major recurring character Adi aged
version of the dude himself the film
takes place entirely within a digital
landscape and almost every character
outside of hero Sam is technically a
digital being but that doesn't help the
fact that this early attempt at putting
the effect front and center just does
not work
giving the film's villain an unnatural
appearance so deep in the uncanny valley
he can probably see bedrock
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