10 Movies Ruined By Creepy CGI
Utterly horrifying.
Almost every major movie released nowadays is awash in a sea of CGI, and while at its best it can transport audiences to new worlds and offer up uniquely heightened experiences, it can also fall totally flat on its face.
Visual effects are extremely expensive and time consuming, and so if corners are cut, that original artistic intent can be totally undermined by a sub-par end product.
That's absolutely true of these 10 movies, which whether a result of a cheap and impatient studio, or a filmmaker simply ill-equipped to achieve their vision, delivered films that were fatally derailed by their deeply offputting VFX.
Though there are certainly movies which have used CGI to create compellingly otherworldly characters - Avatar, Tron: Legacy, and Alita: Battle Angel to name just a few - more often than not audiences will be instinctively repulsed by digital creations which capture only a fraction of the human element.
The uncanny valley defines the void where CGI characters resemble human beings to a point yet don't manage to replicate the subtler aspects of a living person, and that's true of almost every entry on this list.
No matter the good work the movie might've been doing elsewhere, it was tough to pay attention with so much distractingly soulless CGI on offer...
10. Justice League
Much has been written about Justice League's intensely troubled production, mangled into a blandly forgettable mess as it was by a panicked Warner Bros.
But by far its most unfortunate infraction was the decision to undertake reshoots while Henry Cavill was in the middle of filming Mission: Impossible - Fallout.
Despite Cavill being unable to shave his mustache while filming the spy blockbuster, Warner Bros. decided to proceed regardless with Justice League's reshoots, with the Man of Steel sporting a tache which would be digitally painted out in post-production.
The results were, predictably, intensely distracting, with Cavill's plastic lower jaw lending Superman an eerily uncanny quality.
Given that Justice League was largely intended to course-correct the DCEU's controversial, mopey vision of Superman, his offputting face did nothing to aid matters.
Sadly Warner Bros.' refusal to shift Justice League's release date (again) came back to bite them, as both Superman and the movie as a whole were rendered an embarrassing laughing stock.