10 Recent CGI Movie Moments You Didn't Notice
7. All-Black The Necrosword - Thor: Love & Thunder
Thor: Love and Thunder received a fair amount of flak for the inconsistent quality of its visual effects, but there's one effect present throughout the film that you almost certainly never caught.
Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale) becomes the recipient of the god-killing Necrosword at the very start of the movie, and did you know that it's actually a digital prop for the vast majority of the film?
The film's VFX breakdown below (at 2:56) confirms that, in many scenes, Christian Bale simply pretended to hold the sword and it was then composited into his hands in post-production.
This must've been quite unsatisfying for Bale, an actor who loves to live his characters and would presumably much prefer to, you know, actually swing a badass sword around. It's perhaps little surprise, then, that Bale called shooting the CGI-heavy film "monotonous."
While it's incredibly obvious that the movie's other major weapons, Mjolnir and Stormbreaker, aren't real, the sword quite easily passes the sniff test throughout.