10 Times Movies Should've Used CGI

1. Kingsman: The Secret Service

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Kingsman: The Secret Service's most memorable scene in questionably the ultraviolent church massacre, where villain Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson) activates a phone signal which causes everyone inside - that is, Harry Hart (Colin Firth) and a bunch of right-wing toss-bags - to start brutally murdering one another.

The gloriously over-the-top sequence, set to Lynyrd Skynyrd's triumphant "Free Bird," certainly uses its fair share of CGI, from digitally stitching shots together to resemble a smooth single take, to oodles of digital blood, and more cartoonish moments like Harry setting a man's head on fire.

There is one moment of practical, in-camera mayhem that just doesn't work at all, though, when Harry rams a man face-first into a church pew, causing his body to basically fold up like an accordion.

Ultimately, the very obvious rubber mannequin used for the sequence makes it more hilariously silly than bone-crunchingly brutal, and this is probably something that director Matthew Vaughn should've tweaked digitally in post-production.

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