10 Risky Movie Moments That Totally Failed
9. The GoPro Footage - The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
The middle chapter of The Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, saw director Peter Jackson make one incredibly jarring and out-of-place stylistic choice - including GoPro shots in the sequence where the heroes escape their captors by riding along a raging river in a set of wine barrels.
It's a fun sequence in theory, albeit one rendered infamous due to the occasional presence of low-resolution GoPro shots.
GoPros are certainly quality consumer cameras for folks wanting to preserve memories of their holidays to post to YouTube, but in a $250 million blockbuster that can easily afford proper cinema cameras and elaborate rigging? It can't help but seem lazy.
Even accepting that GoPros can be quickly and easily positioned in ways that bulky movie cameras can't, the trade-off wasn't worth it - the blurry, low-quality result sticks out like a sore thumb in a fantasy epic like this, especially compared to the more conventionally cinematic imagery produced by the "proper" cameras.