9 Almost-Great Movie Moments Ruined By Shoddy CGI

3. The In-Between - The Lovely Bones

In retrospect Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones will look like something easily dubbed unfilmable. But focusing on the base novel, there's little that makes it tricky for adaptation; all the elements that would lend the book that title were created by Peter Jackson for his film. Which is particularly odd given that it was those same additions that ruined it.

The novel is primarily interested in the family dynamic after their youngest daughter is raped and murdered, with poor girl watching on from heaven. The film put more stock on Saoirse Ronan's Susie - her life before death and, more importantly, her time in the heavenly in-between - demoting her family to a secondary plot. The problem with that, however, was that the in-between we got on screen was horrendously realised.

Clearly Jackson wanted to go for an other-wordly feel to it all, which to some extent explains the stylistic issues, but that doesn't excuse the poor CGI. We know what we're seeing isn't real and thus it makes the most unrestricted place ever feel incredibly confined.

This is highlighted when the in-between inexplicably crosses over into the real world, killing Stanley Tucci's paedophile; the icicle that hits him looks so cartoony it's laughable.