12 Movies So Good You Overlook Major Flaws

2. The CGI Is Atrocious - Black Panther

Black Panther Final Battle
Marvel Studios

Black Panther became an instant pop-culture phenomenon upon releasing earlier this year, while scoring rave reviews from critics and being generally accepted as one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's strongest efforts to date.

So, what the hell happened with the movie's CGI?

Despite its $200 million budget, the movie's VFX are, uh, inconsistent to say the least. The physics of Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) flipping around look goopy and unrealistic, the final fight against Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) has all the visual fidelity of a dated video game cut-scene, and let's not even get started on those CGI war rhinos. Yikes.

Considering that most MCU movies boast solid - if unremarkable - CGI, it was especially noticeable that Black Panther blatantly released before it was finished. Its notably rushed production presumably left the VFX artists with insufficient time to deliver to the expected standard.

It's still a great movie, of course, but the climactic fight in particular is a genuine eye-sore in a film with so many iconic moments.

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