The Hobbit Trilogy: 10 Worst CGI Moments

We come to it at last, the great tragedy of our time. Everything that has already been laid out in this article applies to this scene. It was a sequence that added nothing to the plot and only served to distract from more important moments. It destroyed a character and made a joke of Middle-earth.

By this point in the movie, suspension of disbelief was a lost cause. We'd already been subjected to one too many physics-defying sequences, and by now any hope of saving the film had been consumed by dragon fire. Continuing to watch from this moment was akin to the sick intrigue one might get while watching a forest burn or a building collapse.

But even so this took the biscuit. It was as if the filmmakers wanted to see just how far they could push things before people walked out of the cinema. This scene literally looked like an '80s side-scrolling video game had been given a 21st Century update and spliced into a movie for fun.

There isn't much more to say about this moment. Tolkien's story was already dead in the water, and this was like parading its corpse.