10 More Awful Times Movie Actors Were Combined With CGI

6. Billy Connolly - The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies

Billy Connolly Dain The Hobbit The Battle Of The Five Armies
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While the Hobbit films aren't classics in the same way that the Lord Of The Rings trilogy is, they're not bad movies - they just get a bad rap because The Lord Of Rings was so darn good, a series that was near-impossible to live up to.

But one area of the Hobbit that does deserve to be given some criticism - especially when compared to The Lord Of The Rings - is its CGI. Where the original trilogy was full of amazing practical effects from start to end, like the terrifying Orc makeup to the horror of Shelob's lair, The Hobbit went much more heavy on the digital stuff, and, frustratingly, some of it was absolute pants.

The particularly rubbish highlight of the piece is Billy Connolly's Dain the Dwarf, a character that looks like the filmmakers just gave up on him when he was only fifty percent complete. Now yes, the human eye is always going to be able to tell when a character is fully CGI - even when it's well done - but Dain literally looks like he's been pulled out of some future animated adaptation of the Hobbit trilogy, and hastily plonked in here. He simply looks wrong.

It feels like the decision to use this much CGI was a last-minute rush-job, which, considering that director Peter Jackson had barely any time to prepare these movies, wouldn't be surprising.

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