10 Stunning Movies With One Awful CGI Moment
10. The 3D Steering Wheel - Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road is one of the most technically impressive blockbusters ever made, a white-knuckle action film that prides itself on a genius collision of practical stunt work and seamless visual effects.
In fact, Fury Road has a lot more CGI in it than most people think, but as expertly directed by George Miller and conceived by his VFX team, there are precious few instances where the seams become visible.
There is one frustrating blip right at the end of the film, however, when Nux (Nicholas Hoult) sacrifices himself by crashing his war rig and blocking the canyon with a massive pile-up of vehicles.
Rather than simply depict the crash, Miller suddenly goes into garish, plastic CGI overload, throwing an unconvincing digital guitar right at the audience's faces and, as is especially egregious, a CGI steering wheel.
One's left to assume these elements were added to make the 3D presentation seem more worthwhile, but honestly it just feels chintzy and looks embarrassingly cheap in a movie that otherwise seems anything but.