10 More Awful Times Movie Actors Were Combined With CGI
1. Stephen Dorff - Blade
Wesley Snipes' Blade released in 1998, and - along with Sam Raimi's Spider-Man and Bryan Singer's X-Men - is responsible for kicking off the golden age of comic-book movies we live in today.
It's hard to believe the film is two decades old, but it's even harder to believe that the filmmakers and studio executives looked at the special effects in the final fight between Blade and Deacon Frost and thought they were good enough to release.
Everything starts off just fine, with Blade and his foe exchanging sword strikes, but the problems begin when Blade chops off Frost's hand, cutting him in half shortly after. At this point, Frost's magical powers allow him to pull the two halves of his body back together and regrow his severed limb, which results in a streak of blood that looks so unbelievably fake, it's almost like a few stock images have just been pasted into the scene and keyframed.
What's extremely odd about this scene is that the effect of Frost's two separate body pieces flying back together actually looks really good - it's just the blood that looks undeniably atrocious, even by 1998 standards. Did they run out of money or time for that particular aspect of the shot? Possibly.
Either way, this isn't the quality of effects you want from an intense final battle, and poor Stephen Dorff must find this one insanely hard to rewatch without cringing.
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