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welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
dumbest uses of cgi in
movies now pay attention
ah green
wow
i know right for this list we'll be
looking at the most ridiculous and
unnecessary uses of special effects
we've ever seen on the big screen which
of these scenes do you think is the
silliest let us know in the comments
below
number 10 michael's mask halloween h2o
20 years later
michael
when cgi attempts to replicate the look
of real human faces it can fall short
and look a bit shoddy this was really
apparent in 1998's halloween h2o 20
years later when cgi was still
experiencing growing pains oh mistake
i'm so sorry i i didn't mean to make you
jump it's okay well hey it's halloween i
guess everyone is entitled to one good
scare
i've had my share although the halloween
franchise started with a practical mask
in 1978 everything changed in 1998 upon
the advent of special effects there's a
scene in halloween h2o when michael is
rocking a cgi mask that looks absolutely
horrific
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hi the worst part is not how it looks
but how unnecessary it was to include it
for only one scene a michael myers mask
from the local costume shop would have
looked 100 better than this
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buying one would have been significantly
easier and presumably cheaper than
utilizing cgi
number nine breath the social network
mark yeah you said you come up with
something yeah i think i've come up with
something come outside it's 20 degrees
outside i can't stare at that loop of
niagara falls which has absolutely
nothing to do with the caribbean there's
one scene in david fincher's the social
network that sees mark and eduardo
standing outside in the freezing cold
while discussing ideas for facebook it's
a good scene with great dialogue that's
ruined by cgi breath clouds well split
it 70 30. 70 for me 30 for you for
putting up the thousand dollars and for
handling everything on the business end
your cfo fincher has stated that to ask
people to stand out in this kind of cold
weather and not see the breath was
unfair
while it's noble of him to try to go for
accuracy the breath is still wildly
unnecessary audiences understand that
it's freezing and eduardo is jumping
around and commenting on how cold he is
i'm not talking about a dating site i'm
talking about taking the entire social
experience of college
and putting it online i can't feel my
legs i know i'm totally psyched about
this tube we don't think anyone would
have complained about the lack of
visible breath in fact it's likely that
no one would have even noticed we don't
even know what it is yet we don't know
what it is
we don't know what it can be we don't
know what it will be we know that it is
cool
that is a priceless asset i'm not giving
up this one will be finished it won't be
finished that's the point the way
fashion's never finished number eight
the rats daredevil i mean i hate to
bring it up again but i spent three
thousand dollars on seeing eye dogs i
didn't ask you for the dog i didn't want
a dog something else seeing eye dogs
bond for life
yours ran away what does that tell you
about how emotionally available you are
the 2003 daredevil film is not loved by
many and its questionable filmmaking is
evident in the very first seconds one of
the first things audiences see is a
shoddy digital rat scamper around the
wet streets before it's scared away by a
burst of steam
couldn't they have just opened the movie
in another way to save both money and
the film's reputation they could have
filmed a live rat and just cut out the
steam part or they could have just
started with the slow pan up the stairs
instead of bothering with a rodent at
all what's eating you
ah
rough night
wait you want to talk about it
no
something could have been done to
prevent audiences from watching such an
insignificant piece of digital imagery
in a superhero movie
number 7 green lantern's mask green
lantern
cgi masks didn't get any better between
1998 and 2011. in green lantern blake
lively's carol ferris asks what the hell
is with that mask if that was meant to
be a brilliant bit of meta comedy then
well done because that's exactly what
audiences were thinking while looking at
this atrocity the movie was widely
lambasted for its poor visual effects
and that includes green lantern's
digital mask wow
yeah
can you take off the mask
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that's really cool it's overly digitized
and completely unnatural when it appears
on hal's face
not bad huh while reynolds initially
defended the use of otherworldly cgi he
later joins the rest of the world and
ridiculed the terrible special effects
himself and please don't make the super
suit green
or animated number six wolverine's claws
x-men origins wolverine
standing as one of the worst films in
the entire x-men canon this origin story
received significant criticism for its
script and poor visual effects this is
something i always wanted to tell you
you're predictable perhaps the movie's
most infamous scene shows wolverine
trying out his new adamantium claws in a
bathroom mirror the effect looks like
something out of an amateur b-movie
rather than one that cost 150 million
dollars
you're right in there yeah i'm fine the
filmmakers reportedly utilized
prosthetic claws while shooting however
they replaced them in post-production
with cgi
that's a nice stick even the first
movie's claws look marginally better and
that was released almost 10 years prior
it's obviously hard to convey steel
claws in a realistic manner but surely
something could have been done to
prevent this disaster
two years i run in that hell and i never
oh
shiny number five the pair star wars
episode two attack of the clones the
star wars prequels are infamous for
their over-reliance on cgi
good to see you again
senator padme
these apollos here
looky looky senator both the green
screens and horrid effects made the
original 70s and 80s films look more
modern than the prequels perhaps the
worst offender is the infamous pair
scene from attack of the clones
aggressive negotiations was that
well
negotiations with a light saber
the pair looks
mind-bogglingly bad and gets worse
whenever it interacts with the live
actors we don't believe for a second
that either hayden christensen or
natalie portman are interacting with
fruit if master ob one called me doing
this he'd be very grumpy the team could
have used a real pair on a string or
even just cut out the goofy sequence
altogether if you follow your thoughts
through the conclusion
it'll take us to a place we cannot go
regardless of the way we feel about each
other
then you do feel something was it really
necessary for them to use a cgi pair
while sitting down to eat
number four cgi dog poop john wick and
now that i have found my piece
find yours
until that day
your best friend
helen it's a weird day indeed when you
show up to work and learn that you'll be
animating a pile of curling dog poop but
a team fulfilled that strange request
for the modern classic john wick while
the movie is an impeccably made bit of
action cinema it contains a wholly
unnecessary shot of a dog's recently
deposited uh
deposit oh
right
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this wasn't needed for the story or
character so why even included according
to the dvd commentary the filmmakers
couldn't just wait around for a dog to
do its business so they resorted to cgi
i'm up
since the single shot reportedly cost
the studio five thousand dollars in
animation and labor it's one of the most
expensive poops in human history we'll
grab you some cuba later
number three digital shave justice
league i believe in truth
but i'm also a big fan of justice the
story of henry cavill's mustache is now
ingrained in film history he originally
grew a thick mustache for his role in
mission impossible fallout
during filming warner bros needed him to
play the clean shaven superman for
justice league reshoots but he couldn't
get rid of the facial hair he won't let
me live
he won't let me die
the world needs you
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it doesn't need you
after a failed compromise between the
two movie productions warner bros had to
digitally remove cavill's mustache in
post-production the result was a bizarre
uncanny valley concoction that made
cavill appear like a just not right
video game character does your thing
really stand for hope yes it does but it
looks like an s
yes it's meant to it's
meant to wind like a river
it comes and goes while they did what
they could under regrettable
circumstances there's no denying that
the end result looks ridiculous
number two a human baby the twilight
saga breaking dawn part two welcome to
the family
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you look amazing bella
someone's been waiting to meet you if
digitally creating a fake face proves
difficult we can only imagine how hard
it would be to create an entire human
being unfortunately that is exactly what
the visual effects artists of twilight
were tasked with when it came to making
renesmi she's fine she's back home and
she's feeling better
why didn't you say so it's great
wait
there's something you need to see first
while we feel bad for laughing she was
probably one of the worst bits of cgi
ever created the baby looks absurd and
it completely takes viewers out of an
otherwise emotional moment
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she's got your eyes billed bill condon
even admitted to the hollywood reporter
that the baby came out a disaster they
reportedly chose between using bad
special effects or a creepy animatronic
doll but that only raises another
question couldn't they have just tried
filming with a real baby all right
that's enough experimenting for one day
jacob
she's doing great
yeah
let's not push it though
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fursuits cats yep okay nice and good
everybody ready in five six seven and
just before noon
from its first trailer cats ran the risk
of being a cinematic travesty the movie
is based on a musical that has been
running since 1981. since that time
everyone has been content with the
beautiful tony award-winning costumes
but the production team of cats decided
to go with cgi instead of practical
effects this resulted in horrific human
cat hybrids that haunted our nightmares
do you think he just got muted
those notes are like oh the genuinely
terrible cgi complete with numerous
glitches and imperfections forced
universal to release an updated version
to theaters to understand our character
you've learnt enough
to take the view
the cats are very much like you all the
special effects updates and horrified
reactions could have been avoided if the
cat's production team made more
practical costume choices now for the
icing on the cake
why did you want another jellicle knife
i can't keep being in this kitchen
don't get cocky
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