10 CGI Moments In Recent Movies NOBODY Noticed

10. Nat & Yelena In The Bar - Black Widow

It's of course no secret that every single Marvel Cinematic Universe movie contains a ton of CGI in practically every scene, but you might be surprised at just how extensively VFX are used in even the most basic and "practical" of camera setups.

When a VFX breakdown was released shortly after Black Widow hit screens, it revealed that even the scene where Natalya (Scarlett Johansson) and Yelena (Florence Pugh) hang out drinking in a bar required the use of blue screen technology.

At a cursory glance there's nothing about the scene - which simply involves two people sitting down and talking - which necessitated CGI, most likely suggesting that this portion of the scene was a reshoot captured many months later.

It's been stated before that the crew of every MCU movie captures clean background plates of all major camera setups, so if it's discovered that shots are missing or a scene isn't quite working in editing, pickups can be efficiently shot in front of a blue screen and composited in front of the plates.

While it's easy to view this use of CGI as excessive, it's certainly a smart way to keep reshoot costs down by ensuring the crew doesn't need to revisit the original location, or worse still rebuild a set that was destroyed after principal photography wrapped.

And considering you almost certainly didn't notice it, do you really care all that much?