10 Movie Scenes That Should've Used CGI

10. The Animatronic Bear - The Wolverine

An early scene in 2013's The Wolvering sees Logan (Hugh Jackman) come across a dying grizzly bear in the woods and put it out of its misery with his sharp claws.

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Though the brief glimpse of the bear earlier in the film was achieved digitally, for this sequence the production opted to use a 12-foot animatronic. 

And while it's great that Hugh Jackman had something tangible to work opposite, the rather dated-looking prop doesn't really hold up in a film so awash with digital effects elsewhere.

The bear animatronic genuinely looks like something Hollywood would've used decades ago, with its literally robotic movements failing to convince that we're actually looking at anything close to a real grizzly.

Even with the scene smartly taking place at night, which should in theory conceal many of the rougher seams, the frequent lightning flashes make it overwhelmingly obvious that we're looking at a cheap, hokey prop.

Given that James Mangold was playing with a $132 million budget here, this scene needed to use CGI.

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