10 Things Movie Fans Find Too Distracting

Trying to make an audience invest in a CGI creature is incredibly difficult. Trying to make them believe in a CGI human being is damn near impossible.

Just look at some of the motion capture characters in The Polar Express, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn or Beowulf. Though the visual effects on show in these films weren't particularly bad by any means, animators still struggled to get their digitally crafted humans' eyes just right.

These digital peepers often look like they're simply sat inside of beautifully crafted human vessels, trying their best to mimic human behaviour yet still not quite doing enough to convince actual people they're the real deal.

This immediately drags an audience out of the moment as they instantly begin to question how the visual effect has been achieved and why it's making them feel so uncomfortable. In other words, we start to wander into uncanny valley territory.

Even though recent efforts to bring actors like Peter Cushing back to life (as Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One) are about as close to realistically human as we've gotten so far using the motion capture/CGI combo, fans still couldn't stop themselves from being distracted by the not quite life-like effects when they should've been locked into what was going down in the scene.