2. Provoked Animals Move Like A Video Game Glitch
Culprits The Ring, Lake Placid (and other monster films), Life of Pi, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Weve all seen a deer get scared of the mere presence of a person and scarper. I have never seen a deer get scared and turn into a shapeless, 2D glitch. Animals, even when startled, do seem to remain ordinary in terms of Physics. This isnt the case with movies, it seems. As soon as scene calls for an animal to do something wild, unnatural or just plain ridiculous, producers will quite rightly turn to CGI to avoid mowing down that actual herd of deer. But could they please do it better, or not at all? Ring 2 featured a scene that so drastically ruined the suspension of disbelief for the film through its terrible CGI animals that most people I talk to about the film agree it is one of the worst applications of CGI in recent history. Lake Placid, Life of Pi, SyFys countless killer animal films and many other creature features suffer the same fate, replacing the convincing models, machines and puppetry that made the likes of Jaws and Jurassic Park successful with bland, rendered failures. Take a look at the picture above to see how it can hit rock bottom.