10 Worst Times Movie Actors Were Combined With CGI

5. Ryan Reynolds - Green Lantern

Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern
Warner Bros. Pictures

With the director of Casino Royale and a charismatic leading man, Green Lantern should've been great, but it landed with an embarrassing whimper in the summer of 2011. The film has plenty of problems, from a generic story to the way it turned DC Comics villain Parallax into a giant turd-like cloud, but its most infamous crime is easily its shiny, unnatural CGI suits.

One of the biggest concerns in the run up to the film's release was the look of Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern costume, and those concerns were well-founded, because his suit ended up looking completely fake.

Obviously there had to be some CGI trickery involved here, but it's all-too easy to separate the actor's disembodied head from the digital green splodge underneath him, and the whole thing looks unfinished, almost like the team didn't get to finish that final render to blend Reynolds' neckline into the suit a bit better. The mask is even worse, with the actor's eyes lighting up like a cat each time he uses his powers.

The result is something that looks like a creature Jim Carrey's The Mask would turn into, or an unused villain from the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo movie.

In short: it sucks.

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