Seven Truly Disturbing CGI Characters 

I have a theory that Neo started moving too fast and the simulation of the matrix couldn’t handle rendering him. Is this something?😄

Man, the Thing reboot practicals looked SOO GOOOD!!! Insane that they thought the CGI was a better idea

I feel that Henry Cavils upper lip was a separate character for the majority of Justice League and therefore should qualify to be on this list.

Number 8: Henry Cavill’s mouth in Justice League

I feel like in Rogue One if they kept CGI Tarkin in the shadow more and did the Leia scene from a distance it would've looked a lot more natural then it did.

I didn't watch Justice League, and I legit thought that first clip of Steppenwolf was a Playstation cutscene

Lindsey Ellis' essays are great, I'm glad you brought up her series about the Hobbit.

Why is Nick Mason not on the list

Man, i thought for a minute you were gonna mention the Mortal Kombat "sequel". All of the movie, but the final fight in particular where they turn into creatures, was just horrendous CGI.

Isn't truly Sunday until James puts out a video

Doomsday was an afterthought in this video because he was an afterthought in the movie

I like to think that Matrix Reloaded cgi Neo and Agents is actually a result of them being in the matrix, and with so many characters in one area, the Matrix resolution suffers. They're literally in a computer world

I know Clu from Tron: Legacy is sometimes mentioned, but I think for the time (2010) they did a good job at de-aging Jeff Bridges. It was really the first step to what would eventually become a young Hank Pym in Ant-Man.

My vote would be for Scoobert Scooby-Doo from the prequel Scooby doo film

SPAWN!. YOU TWO TOTALLY LEFT OUT SPAWN!

Wolverine's claws from X-Men origins deserve a mention. They looked like something out of Toon Town in Roger Rabbit. it.

Rich Evans better be number 1

That Ian McKellen thing is... Whoa. You know you've screwed up when you upset that man.

Who's here before they edit the title typo

It was rumoured that Michael Joseph Jackson was set to play the genie in the new Aladdin remake

Is that fact about Ian McKellan true? Oh my God.

It's not out yet, but Will Smith's genie better be on here

Love the shoutout to Lindsay Ellis, her videos on the hobbit are top-tier film analysis.

They're showing these clips of Steppenwolf and I'm just quietly sinking back into my chair thinking, "I don't think he looks bad."

George Lucas essentially invented computer generated special effects for use in filmmaking way back in the early Star Wars days, so he's effectively used his Lucasfilm properties as a sort-of test bed for the technology throughout its development. Of COURSE his name is going to be near the top of any "bad CGI in movies" list. But, without his vision, and the imaginations of other independent filmmakers like James Cameron, etc., the quality wouldn't be anywhere NEAR what it is today. Because there's been such a steady and incessant march toward perfecting the craft ever since effects studios like Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic were created. It's easy to call out "The Phantom Menace" and "Attack of the Clones" for their cringeworthy computer generated effects, especially when comparing them to more recent movies, but most of the CG technology used to make those movies was in it's formative infancy back then. I mean, Jar Jar Binks was the very first fully computer generated character in any live-action film, up to that point. Followed closely by Watto, who appeared in the same movie! If you watch how those movies were made, there's actually a quite surprising amount of practical effects. A vast majority of the locations, creatures, droids and vehicles were all scale models, miniatures, etc. My point is, we all have so much fun laughing about the CGI in the Star Wars prequels, but that's only because George Lucas is the one who was bold enough to use his movies to actually push the technology in the first place. He could have played it safe and not taken the risk, but if it was inevitable that the technology would be added to the filmmaking toolbox once it was developed to a certain standard, it HAD to begin that process somewhere. And it just happens to have been by George Lucas, for HIS Star Wars cinematic universe. But don't take MY word for it lol it's all widely known information which filmmakers they were who were responsible for starting us on the road to experiencing our cinematic entertainment at the quality we enjoy today. Without the foresight and imagination of that handful of pioneering filmmakers, 99% of the movies that we love to hate so much nowadays wouldn't have even been possible to make.

This is truley your best video yet

I was starting to get sad thinking you weren't going to upload. thank you for making my Sunday!

Malbolgia and the armies of Hell from the 1998 version of Spawn. It literally looked like a a screensaver.

Nice shoutout to Lindsay Ellis' 3-part video on the Hobbit debacle! Those are excellent videos.

I look forward the The Genie from Aladin (2019) being added to a future list.

I was having a rough day and then I saw that Mr. Sunday Movies uploaded a new video. Now my day is... exactly the same, but I enjoyed the video...

I truely enjoy your channel

The matrix one never bothered me bc I always thought “well it’s a computer program so it would look weird right?”

"birdemic: shock and terro" is the best easter egg

Mummy Returns is my girlfriend’s guilty pleasure (first Mummy Film with “Winston Avalov, at your service” kicks ass, so that’s a reasonable favourite). When we first got together she pointed the “Noooo!!!” moment from the Mummy Returns out to me and it always makes us laugh now. Arguably the funniest thing in any Brendan Fraser film - to the point that, whenever it’s on T.V. (even if we’re watching something else) we try and catch that bit. Genuine class for all the wrong reasons. Salute your observation. 🤘🏻

Hey guys love your work. Hope the build is going well.

Wolverine’s claws in the bathroom scene in X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE. So bad that my friend and I actually exchanged a “WTF?” look midway through the scene when we saw it in the theater.

That Ian McKellan part was so heartbreaking

CGI in “Logan” was fantastic.

The Newist "The Thing" movie IS NOT a remake. It is a prequel. It covers the events of the Norwegian team that originally thawed the creature out. Where this movie ends is EXACTLY where the Kurt Russel Thing begins. The dog is running away with a chopper chasing it at the end of the Prequel, and the dog is ariving in the American camp at the beginning of the Kurt Russel film with the Norwegian chopper chasing him.

Truely

An American Werewolf in Paris also serves as a good example of bad CGI.

Talking about Weta, i think Alita from Alita Battle Angel was made perfecly, and i understand why its called performance capture.

All CGI human characters are disturbing.

Ur titles are just the best

You have the best editor on youtube.

When magic turns into tragic... lol well put! 😂🤣👏🏼

That's my favourite part of the mummy returns too

"Just use real zombies". Yeeesss!! Good to know James supports the #ZombieLivesMatter movement

I dunno if it was CG or not, but I was really uncomfortable with the young RDJ scene in Civil War

These videos aren't long enough. Make them forever long and I'm in.

I saw birdemic on that list of projects. I know for a fact that is hilariously bad.

Some cable channel made fun of that Scorpion King scene in their advertisements for their broadcast of it. It might have been Showcase. Even they were like “Wow that NOOOOO bit is fucking hysterical” 😂

I'm surprised they didn't mention Venom at all. But especially the final fight scene in front of the CGI rocket, the two CGI aliens rip out the CGI hosts out of each other.

Wolverine using his claws to spin around the Statue of Liberty always bugged me

There was this dancing baby, I think it first appeared in the tv show Ally McBeal, and ended up doing commercials and then just ended up freaking everyone out

When Wonder Woman is jumping around using her lasso in her film when she's liberating the town, it looks a bit too elastic

"Just use real zombies"- Mr.Sunday Movies I thought CLU was well done in Tron:Legacy at the time but with each passing year it looks more and more primitive. Still I get used to it and it doesn't stop me from being invested in that character. Also I am only just now learning that Weta did the effects for Prometheus and I have been doing a podcast on the movie for over a year now.

The thing prequel would have actually been super solid had they not CG'd over the practical effects. There are a few interviews with the actual crew that made the props and effects and they were all so crushed that all their hardwork trying to replicate the brilliant effects of the first movie was in vain because the executives decided CGI was the way to go. Poor dudes, they deserved better and we deserved to see their amazing work come to life.

I think the CGI Leia looks great...

Treluy amazing video

W00t! Shout-out to Lindsey Ellis

I love the graph of the uncanny valley where Keanu Reeves is halfway to being a real human. Good stuff

One of the worst modern examples is Domino’s “luck” scene in the newest Deadpool. That car crash into the gas station looks dreadful.

truley enjoyed this video goat man

Well, the Matrix being a computer simulation with processing power, maybe every time Neo breaks the "rules" of the simulated reality, the computers that run it have to strain to keep up, and he looks fake for a moment.

How can you do this video and not talk about Spawn's cape

My 3rd cousin actually worked on makeup and hairstyling on the first Hobbit and he said that they worked for months on a practical design for the orc villian but they just cgied all over it and I saw a picture of the practical one and it looked really cool, it had like shreds of gray hair, scars, and it looked and felt real but they had to waste all that work to cgi over it

9:58 just noticed that within all those amazing looking movies there’s Birdemic: Shock And Terror

I love the incredibly sardonic editing going on in this intro

noone else notice they included birdemic in the "best cgi" list? lmfao

Weta really is the best special effects company out there. I actually have a cousin who works for them, so it's pretty awesome to see his name pop up in the credits every once in a while.

Nice Lindsey plug. I was just going to mention watching her 2 part video on the hobbit clusterfuck

Hey! Great video! What about another one pointing the opposite? The best cgi characters ever made? Would be great!

1:35 Cgi had an era where you could do it but you shouldn't do it Comedy gold!

I like how y'all snuck Birdemic into that last of movies from WETA

I love your Uncanny Valley chart that shows Keanu Reeves is not quite real!

Peter Jackson gets a bad rap for the Hobbit - but he shouldn't. Before LOTR he had an entire year of pre-production where they created the props - real armour/swords/sets/prosthetics - so by the time they got to shooting, minimal CGI was needed because a years prep had created real versions of what they would need. After Del Toro left the Hobbit, Jackson was called in last minute, the studio refused to allow more prep time which led to the 3 average and poor films we now have.

Lindsay Ellis' video on it, which you reference in the video, is fantastic. Honestly, in regards to CGI, I think the biggest handicap wasn't so much time but that stupid 48 frames-per-second that Jackson was doing. It essentially doubled the CGI workload since you're not doing the standard 24FPS of movies. And, for what? I honestly didn't notice a difference and the 48FPS version isn't available outside a cinema so all that extra time and money spent for smoother animation that was short-lived and little-noticed.

I can forgive the Matrix fight for looking fake and having slightly weird physics since, even in universe, that fight was not really happening anywhere in the real world.

Haha the irony of Maso saying it was "obviously" Will Smith's human head but not on his body when it was never his head at all and it was entirely CGI all along! Guess the CGI was more convincing than they thought

the first harry potter when Nevil falls off his broom is absolutely terrible

That one scene in ang lees hulk where Glenn shoots hulk with the goop gun is some of the worst cgi I’ve ever seen

Was on the toilet when the Jon carpenter stuff popped up and thank god for that

Ahhh small error - you used concept art of Steppenwolf from Snyder's cut - VERY different to what we got! That concept art looks awesome and you can see it realised in the scene with Lex Luthor at the end of the BvS Ultimate Edition.

Please make a part 2

The worst part of the hundred Agent Smiths fight scene was the godawful bowling strike sound some idiot comped in. I wish I were kidding.

I love the joke the dude tells at the beginning of the remake/reboot/prequel of The Thing.

7:33 i will never forgive you this. The song is amazing, i sing it to my kids while putting them to bed.

That cut to avi arad was perfect.

Seven Treluy is really a master of disturbing cgi characters. He deserves a walk of fame star.

Get this man to one million subscribers!!

I'm pretty sure the CGI Scorpion King they used in the movie "The Mummy Returns" was the only appearance of The Rock. I don't think The Rock actually was ever in that movie by himself(or non CGI'd. He was just in "The Scorpion King" as a non CGI character.

It's no James screaming the titles of Star Wars works in an empty room, but it'll do

this has been a treluy worthwhile video!

You are ylurT the best youtuber

Them doing CGI for the fight in the Matrix showed that it was in fact a computer program and the world was trying to render all those agents joining the fight.

The Mummy 'NOOOOO' is my favorite scene too! I laughed my fucking ass off for like 5 minutes

man. everytime i remember that sir ian mckellen broke down on the hobbit set i get REALLY bummed out. :(

If you want a terrible CGI character from a recent movie then look no further than the robot in Replicas starring Keanu Reeves. That movie came out last month (January 2019) but the CGI for that robot was not only legitimately offensive but also genuinely terrifying. It looked like something out of a cutscene for a PS1 era game.