10 Worst Times Movie Actors Were Combined With CGI
1. Jeff Fahey - The Lawnmower Man
One of the lesser-known movie adaptations of a Stephen King work, The Lawnmower Man stars a pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan as a scientist who recruits a simple gardener, Jobe (Jeff Fahey), to conduct experiments on.
This results in Jobe becoming smarter and smarter, developing telekinetic powers and deciding to exact revenge on anyone who has mistreated him. Eventually, Jobe becomes so powerful that he literally enters a computer to become a fully virtual entity, and it's at this point that The Lawnmower Man starts to look like something a five-year-old drew in Microsoft Paint.
A digital recreation of Fahey is used in this scene, with his face spliced onto a computerised black-and-gold body. And as you can see, it looks utterly appalling. The most incredible thing about all this is that Angel Studios worked on the CGI for the film, a company that would later become Rockstar San Diego.
That's right! The same team that worked on the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption franchises also brought us these dreadful visual effects.
Talk about greatness from small beginnings...
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