10 Recent Movies That Grossly Overestimated What Their CGI Could Do

5. Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody was one of the most divisive-yet-successful films of last year, scooping a Best Actor Oscar for Rami Malek alongside three other awards, including a rather baffling Best Film Editing win.

But one Academy Award it wasn't up for? Best Visual Effects.

Though the Freddie Mercury biopic smartly keeps its use of CGI minimal, the climactic recreation of Queen's iconic Live Aid performance suffers through some distractingly roughshod VFX.

While a period-accurate Wembley Stadium is lovingly recreated with an impressive photorealism, the CGI crowd sadly proves decidedly less convincing.

In order to fill the 72,000-seater arena, several hundred crowd extras were filmed in front of a green screen and then digitally replicated throughout the stadium.

During the sequence's ostentatious crane shots, the CGI aspect becomes especially obvious, as well as those on-stage shots behind the band, demonstrating the seams between the live footage and the copy-paste job.

Granted, it would've been a tough sequence for any filmmaker to pull off, but clearly either time or money was a factor in not making this anywhere near convincing enough.