CGT I can make or break a movie and
unfortunately for these it’s the latter
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
10 worst CGI effects in movies for this
list we are looking at bafflingly bad
CGI that didn’t draw us into the story
but only made us laugh and shake our
heads at their blatant failure and
artificiality also the movie has to have
made an honest effort
so no intentionally bad B movies like
sharknado or anything of that sort
if there’s something you think should be
on the list but isn’t be sure to check
out our first video on the subject top
10 worst CGI movie effects to see if
it’s there
also there are some spoilers to come so
spoiler alert enough is enough I have
had it with these motherfuckin X on this
mother why number 10
parallax vs. Green Lantern Green Lantern
with a 200 million dollar budget and the
DC name behind you you’d think we would
get some decent special effects well
think again
parallax the main villain of this
superhero flick looks terribly goofy and
fake and it doesn’t help that Green
Lantern himself looks like a video game
character half the time
they even had to use computer effects
for the eye mask Hal Jordan wears when
he becomes the Green Lantern couldn’t
they have just slapped a real mask on
him with subpar efforts like this it’s
no wonder Marvel is reigning supreme
number nine
han Solo meets Jabba the Hutt Star Wars
Episode four a new hope special edition
the classic Star Wars is not without its
faults well that’s not entirely true
at least this scene wasn’t in the
original 1977 version it wasn’t until
the 1997 re-release in theaters that
audiences saw this scene for the first
time and it was even further improved in
the 2004 DVD release look Japanese sorry
I want to talk to me come see yourself
on some one of these twerps maki cheese
day suffice it to say audiences were not
exactly thrilled shot in the 70s with a
human playing Java the scene was cut
from the original release but with
George Lucas reinserting the scene two
decades later with a CGI Jabba it all
looked highly artificial next to the
human Harrison Ford Yamaguchi must eat
more chicken and a green not midnight oh
thank you don’t go we can safely say
that many of the effects from the 70s
looked better than this new Jabba did he
seriously thought that having Han
digitally walk on Jabba’s tail would be
a good way to deal with the revised
Jabba design in Return of the Jedi Oh
we have an obese Luke Skywalker Jedi
Knight number 8 Mary Jane the monster
scooby-doo my cowboy in this 2002
live-action adaptation of the famous
scooby-doo animated series Scoob and the
gang traveled to an island to
investigate strange goings-on in this
scene Mary Jane is riding ATVs with
Shaggy and Scooby when her head hits a
branch causing her face to become
monstrous complete with green eyes and
stretchy skin oh the green eyes look bad
enough but it’s the skin stretch that
looks terrible as you can clearly see
where I love Fisher’s real face stops
and the CGI takes over still this is
probably scary for the kids at least
yeah and all they are you all right oh
you were great
you too number seven Wolverines claws
x-men origins Wolverine with the x-men
name behind the movie it seems like a
given that there’d be some great science
fiction oriented special effects but
sadly twas not the case for this fourth
installment of the series
instead we get awful-looking Claus and
CGI that only takes us away from the
story that much more quickly the claws
are very clearly not coming out of
Wolverines hand but are instead
superimposed over actor Hugh Jackman’s
real hand we should also mention the
latter scene which makes little sense
and looks even worse these are laughably
bad efforts for such a high budget film
number six space monkey lost in space
this sci-fi adventure which follows the
Robinson family as they emigrate to a
nearby star system was adapted from the
1960s TV show of the same name however
that series probably had better special
effects than this
the main detractor is an alien primate
that’s adopted as a pet and that also
looks downright terrible looks like you
made a friend so I wait a few weeks
before tattooing her name on your arm it
is blatantly obvious the actors had
nothing to work with and it is so poorly
integrated we can’t help but be
distracted from the action of his scenes
don’t involve this is one interstellar
journey that could have done with a
higher budget what else a long way from
home number five Russell Franklin’s
death deep blue sea now you’ve seen how
bad things could get samuel l.jackson
deserves better than this well they can
get a whole lot worse this movie is
about a group of scientists looking for
a cure for Alzheimer’s which results in
the creation of super intelligent sharks
so you know there’s gonna be some can’t
be fun but this is just inexcusable
we’re going to pull together and we’re
gonna find a way to get out of what is
admittedly a surprising death is simply
ruined by the horrible looking shark and
the clearly see g’d Jackson
the computer spurt of blood only adds to
the fakery making jaws released almost
25 years earlier look that much better
what could have been a horrifying scene
instead leaves us laughing
number four powerplant overload escape
from LA slow down dickhead I’m the
water’s dying
powerplant overload making back only
half of its budget this sci-fi action
flicks failure could arguably be due to
its abysmal special effects a sequel to
the 1981 original escape from la sees
the return of Snake Plissken as he
recovers a dangerous device from the
City of Angels guidance systems you no
longer have control state function this
scene in particular is atrocious with a
clearly fake submarine and it only gets
worse from there the crash into the
building looks like it’s from a cheap
videogame not to mention the
disproportionately large and very fake
looking sharp maybe they just should’ve
left the original alone number three
snake attack anaconda three offspring
here it’s the very snake from this
made-for-tv horror movies title that
leaves us laughing
the sound effects actually sound
somewhat good and the point of view
shots establish a decent sense of terror
but that tera quickly subsides when we
get a better look at the horrible
looking serpent while it’s supposed to
be intimidating we can only laugh at the
bad lighting video game like movement
and complete lack of realism when it
appears giant snakes may be scary for
some but we don’t think they actually
were for anyone in the case of this
movie number 2 Langille ears attack the
Langille ears this TV mini-series
released as a film on home video and
based on a Stephen King novella about a
group that finds themselves in another
dimension should have a terrifying
finale but the awful CGI completely
takes us out of the horror not only did
the Langille ears themselves look
completely goofy as monsters but you can
actually see the pixels and raw
animation
even the runway becomes CGI and it looks
like an old pixelated PlayStation game
the eating of the scenery looks equally
awful like it’s simply erasing the
scenery rather than eating it
the master of horror deserves better
before we unveil our top pick here are
some honorable or in this case
dishonorable mentions
number one Liu Kang’s transformation
Mortal Kombat annihilation based on the
famous video game series that depicts
people literally ripping each other
apart this martial arts movie is bound
to be a little corny this particular
scene depicts Liu Kang’s animality in
which he shape shifts into a creature to
finish off his opponents ah not I’ve
seen everything yep it looks as dumb as
it sounds the actual transformation
looks incredibly fake against the real
actor and the actual beast itself while
supposed to be intimidating simply comes
across as laughable it almost looks like
paper against the backdrop actually they
might as well have done it that way and
saved some money do you agree with our
list I’m going to be your 15 Java don’t
push it
what awful cgi movie moments do you
think we should have included for more
hilarious top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you know I won Mortal Kombat
you
unfortunately for these it’s the latter
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
10 worst CGI effects in movies for this
list we are looking at bafflingly bad
CGI that didn’t draw us into the story
but only made us laugh and shake our
heads at their blatant failure and
artificiality also the movie has to have
made an honest effort
so no intentionally bad B movies like
sharknado or anything of that sort
if there’s something you think should be
on the list but isn’t be sure to check
out our first video on the subject top
10 worst CGI movie effects to see if
it’s there
also there are some spoilers to come so
spoiler alert enough is enough I have
had it with these motherfuckin X on this
mother why number 10
parallax vs. Green Lantern Green Lantern
with a 200 million dollar budget and the
DC name behind you you’d think we would
get some decent special effects well
think again
parallax the main villain of this
superhero flick looks terribly goofy and
fake and it doesn’t help that Green
Lantern himself looks like a video game
character half the time
they even had to use computer effects
for the eye mask Hal Jordan wears when
he becomes the Green Lantern couldn’t
they have just slapped a real mask on
him with subpar efforts like this it’s
no wonder Marvel is reigning supreme
number nine
han Solo meets Jabba the Hutt Star Wars
Episode four a new hope special edition
the classic Star Wars is not without its
faults well that’s not entirely true
at least this scene wasn’t in the
original 1977 version it wasn’t until
the 1997 re-release in theaters that
audiences saw this scene for the first
time and it was even further improved in
the 2004 DVD release look Japanese sorry
I want to talk to me come see yourself
on some one of these twerps maki cheese
day suffice it to say audiences were not
exactly thrilled shot in the 70s with a
human playing Java the scene was cut
from the original release but with
George Lucas reinserting the scene two
decades later with a CGI Jabba it all
looked highly artificial next to the
human Harrison Ford Yamaguchi must eat
more chicken and a green not midnight oh
thank you don’t go we can safely say
that many of the effects from the 70s
looked better than this new Jabba did he
seriously thought that having Han
digitally walk on Jabba’s tail would be
a good way to deal with the revised
Jabba design in Return of the Jedi Oh
we have an obese Luke Skywalker Jedi
Knight number 8 Mary Jane the monster
scooby-doo my cowboy in this 2002
live-action adaptation of the famous
scooby-doo animated series Scoob and the
gang traveled to an island to
investigate strange goings-on in this
scene Mary Jane is riding ATVs with
Shaggy and Scooby when her head hits a
branch causing her face to become
monstrous complete with green eyes and
stretchy skin oh the green eyes look bad
enough but it’s the skin stretch that
looks terrible as you can clearly see
where I love Fisher’s real face stops
and the CGI takes over still this is
probably scary for the kids at least
yeah and all they are you all right oh
you were great
you too number seven Wolverines claws
x-men origins Wolverine with the x-men
name behind the movie it seems like a
given that there’d be some great science
fiction oriented special effects but
sadly twas not the case for this fourth
installment of the series
instead we get awful-looking Claus and
CGI that only takes us away from the
story that much more quickly the claws
are very clearly not coming out of
Wolverines hand but are instead
superimposed over actor Hugh Jackman’s
real hand we should also mention the
latter scene which makes little sense
and looks even worse these are laughably
bad efforts for such a high budget film
number six space monkey lost in space
this sci-fi adventure which follows the
Robinson family as they emigrate to a
nearby star system was adapted from the
1960s TV show of the same name however
that series probably had better special
effects than this
the main detractor is an alien primate
that’s adopted as a pet and that also
looks downright terrible looks like you
made a friend so I wait a few weeks
before tattooing her name on your arm it
is blatantly obvious the actors had
nothing to work with and it is so poorly
integrated we can’t help but be
distracted from the action of his scenes
don’t involve this is one interstellar
journey that could have done with a
higher budget what else a long way from
home number five Russell Franklin’s
death deep blue sea now you’ve seen how
bad things could get samuel l.jackson
deserves better than this well they can
get a whole lot worse this movie is
about a group of scientists looking for
a cure for Alzheimer’s which results in
the creation of super intelligent sharks
so you know there’s gonna be some can’t
be fun but this is just inexcusable
we’re going to pull together and we’re
gonna find a way to get out of what is
admittedly a surprising death is simply
ruined by the horrible looking shark and
the clearly see g’d Jackson
the computer spurt of blood only adds to
the fakery making jaws released almost
25 years earlier look that much better
what could have been a horrifying scene
instead leaves us laughing
number four powerplant overload escape
from LA slow down dickhead I’m the
water’s dying
powerplant overload making back only
half of its budget this sci-fi action
flicks failure could arguably be due to
its abysmal special effects a sequel to
the 1981 original escape from la sees
the return of Snake Plissken as he
recovers a dangerous device from the
City of Angels guidance systems you no
longer have control state function this
scene in particular is atrocious with a
clearly fake submarine and it only gets
worse from there the crash into the
building looks like it’s from a cheap
videogame not to mention the
disproportionately large and very fake
looking sharp maybe they just should’ve
left the original alone number three
snake attack anaconda three offspring
here it’s the very snake from this
made-for-tv horror movies title that
leaves us laughing
the sound effects actually sound
somewhat good and the point of view
shots establish a decent sense of terror
but that tera quickly subsides when we
get a better look at the horrible
looking serpent while it’s supposed to
be intimidating we can only laugh at the
bad lighting video game like movement
and complete lack of realism when it
appears giant snakes may be scary for
some but we don’t think they actually
were for anyone in the case of this
movie number 2 Langille ears attack the
Langille ears this TV mini-series
released as a film on home video and
based on a Stephen King novella about a
group that finds themselves in another
dimension should have a terrifying
finale but the awful CGI completely
takes us out of the horror not only did
the Langille ears themselves look
completely goofy as monsters but you can
actually see the pixels and raw
animation
even the runway becomes CGI and it looks
like an old pixelated PlayStation game
the eating of the scenery looks equally
awful like it’s simply erasing the
scenery rather than eating it
the master of horror deserves better
before we unveil our top pick here are
some honorable or in this case
dishonorable mentions
number one Liu Kang’s transformation
Mortal Kombat annihilation based on the
famous video game series that depicts
people literally ripping each other
apart this martial arts movie is bound
to be a little corny this particular
scene depicts Liu Kang’s animality in
which he shape shifts into a creature to
finish off his opponents ah not I’ve
seen everything yep it looks as dumb as
it sounds the actual transformation
looks incredibly fake against the real
actor and the actual beast itself while
supposed to be intimidating simply comes
across as laughable it almost looks like
paper against the backdrop actually they
might as well have done it that way and
saved some money do you agree with our
list I’m going to be your 15 Java don’t
push it
what awful cgi movie moments do you
think we should have included for more
hilarious top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you know I won Mortal Kombat
you
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