10 Movie Supervillains Ruined By Botched CGI
Evil special effects.
There's a good reason why Deadpool hates animated costumes. Botched CGI has the potential to shatter audience immersion and make a film look horribly dated on arrival, and this happens too often in the superhero genre.
You might think ropey digital effects are a problem more commonly associated with the Mummy Returns era or low-budget filmmaking, but that isn't the case. Some of the biggest blockbusters of the modern age have been blighted by botched CG.
Superhero movies are particularly susceptible to this issue because many of them rely on computer imagery to facilitate their fantastical elements, from Superman travelling faster than a speeding bullet, to Spider-Man swinging across New York. In some cases, these films use this technology to create entire characters from scratch.
When filmmakers lean on CG this heavily, it needs to be impeccable. Anything less, and the audience will refuse to suspend their disbelief, leaving the movie with an uphill battle to convince them there's anything tangible on screen...
10. David Banner (Hulk)
It comes as little surprise that Ang Lee's Hulk looks like a 138-minute mess of horrible computer effects when viewed in hindsight, considering the film was released just 12 months after the Scorpion King, the yardstick all bad CGI is measured against.
Any scene where Eric Bana's protagonist is in full Green Goliath mode looks like it was lifted from a low-budget PlayStation 2 game, but the worst offenders are those in which his villainous father, David Banner, is showing off his absorbing powers.
The movie's final scene sees Nick Nolte's big bad transform into a Hulk-like behemoth to slug it out with his son, and the entire showdown couldn't have turned out worse if it was drawn and animated using the Windows 3.1x version of MS Paint.
While there are better Hulk villains Lee could have pitted the character against on his Hollywood debut, David Banner could have been a passable antagonist due to his emotional connection to the hero, if it wasn't for the terrible FX.