10 Times Movies Should've Used CGI
3. American Sniper
American Sniper is a pretty good movie that, no matter its box office success and shedload of Oscar nominations, will always be best remembered for that damn fake baby.
From the moment the movie hit cinemas, audiences couldn't stop commenting on the obvious fake baby which was held by Bradley Cooper in a scene opposite Sienna Miller.
It was embarrassingly obvious that the "baby" was a rather naff-looking prop doll, and one which poor Cooper tried to subtly manipulate in order to give the impression of movement. The furore was vocal enough that screenwriter Jason Hall eventually explained what happened.
On the day of shooting, the production hired two babies for the scene, the first of which had a fever, while the second was a no-show, prompting famously efficient Clint Eastwood to simply use a doll instead.
Yet given the movie's $59 million budget and the relative brevity of the scene, it shouldn't have been out of the question to touch the scene up in post-production, giving the baby some realistic motions and making its face look less, well, plastic.