The Hobbit Trilogy: 10 Worst CGI Moments

We've already mentioned the barrel sequence in this article, but we can be forgiven for featuring it a second time; that entire scene is inundated with ludicrous clips that completely undercut the movie.

The dwarves looked weightless, the orcs looked rubbery, and the rules of physics were ignore entirely. If subconsciously something registers as unreal, then the believability of the entire movie flies out the window. We obviously know orcs, dwarves and trolls don't exist, which is why filmmakers need to use every trick to ground the characters in gritty reality. The rules of physics and logic need to apply, especially when an audiences is being asked to believe in a fantastical world.

Throughout the entire first movie, Bombur was portrayed as the fattest and heaviest of the dwarves. The filmmakers dedicated serval scenes to establish how encumbered he was by his weight. In conventional storytelling, this should have been done to set up some kind of payoff in the later narrative. But as soon as Jackson wanted a cheap laugh, all that went out the window. Bombur become a weightless, bouncy ball for a huge porrtion of the Barrel Ride, all for the sake of comic relief.