10 Movie Scenes That Should've Used CGI
1. The Practical Licker - Resident Evil (2002)
The climax to 2002's original Resident Evil film sees Alice (Milla Jovovich) and the other remaining heroes face off against the mutated final form of the Licker which has been pursuing them throughout the movie.
The Licker attacks them on a train as they make their escape out of the Umbrella facility known as The Hive, with the creature being realised through an iffy combination of CGI and practical elements. But the end result makes it howlingly clear that director Paul W.S. Anderson should've gone fully digital.
The shots of the practical Licker animatronic are extremely stiff, presumably due to its limited mobility, enough that Anderson is evidently forced to choppily cut around it in an attempt to disguise how clunky it actually is.
The CGI for the scene isn't great either, but at least it gives the Licker the mobility and menace that the sequence requires. Instead, splitting the difference between CGI and a naff animatronic feels like a misguided half-measure.