Top 10 Worst CGI Movie Effects

[@terenkowatsch7866]

in all fairness, cgi before 2005 was kind of an imperfect science.

[@SHARPangels]

True

[@hellouser7332]

+Teren Kowatsch It still is imperfect.

[@facundolacuesta9297]

+Teren Kowatsch What about The Lord Of The Rings? That one was amazing

[@terenkowatsch7866]

+LXXXV imperfect doesn't mean can't get right. CGI was still very new in terms of putting scenes and main characters together just right. Look at Avatar - a movie masterpiece almost completely CG. That was accomplished but there are still movies that can't even put together a good 5 minute CG effect together. And that's in 2016. Imagine how it was from 2000-2005. There was a reason movies like Lord of the Rings were considered masterpieces. They were the Michael Jordan's and every one else could only try and imitate.

[@Predaguy]

+Teren Kowatsch It just needed insane amounts of money and people who were completely onboard with going all out with the effects, just look at Jurassic Park's CGI, that still holds up and it was one of the first. Most movies just got lazy with it and ended up with shit.

[@triconex4816]

I agree about scorpion king but I disagree about matrix.

[@Dopeescootss]

tric onex I know fright the matrix was actually good

[@thestove5767]

I saw almost nothing wrong with the matrix

[@f.airyfeller399]

I loved that scene in the matrix aswell

[@No-pc5dk]

I agree with both

[@misterwinkybluff]

Just to be clear, we’re talking about The Matrix *Reloaded.* But yeah, the Agent Smiths just looked like a bunch of balloon people with no weight or effect of gravity. They look too flimsy to be real.

[@videogamegenius]

Yea I hate low quality CGI and low quality videos. 480p

[@EscapeTheHector]

Hahaha lol.

[@EvanG529]

videogamegenius 480p is fine with me

[@pedroalbuquerquebs]

Evan Guthrie 480p is the BARE minimum. But 720p is the minimum that looks good!

[@EvanG529]

Pedro Albuquerque Santos I always use 480p.

[@videogamegenius]

***** haha

[@SYTGaming-ue1bx]

The Mummy Returns is still better than The Mummy 2017.

[@goofybutserious4807]

No fucking lie.

[@zyad9587]

FACT!

[@mlgamings6110]

"The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Empire" was better!

[@DavidVee615]

Yes, it is and they should have good attempts in CGI effects.

[@yusrifourtwenty4944]

The movie was good,but the cgi effect was terrible...apart from it i love the movie,..a childhood memories

[@11is2shifty]

I disagree about The Matrix Reloaded because it was made in 2003 and that CGI was pretty good for that time but if The Matrix Reloaded used that kind of CGI now yes it could be on this list

[@tidmarshXC]

Even in 2003 that scene was bad.

[@misterwinkybluff]

Then why was The Matrix’s (original) CGI scenes perfectly passable and it was made in the 90’s

[@gordonramsay6286]

Karotzz the cgi was good for THAT TIME? Look at the CGI from terminator 2, made 12 years before matrix reloaded but is a hundred times better.

[@misterwinkybluff]

@@gordonramsay6286 Exactly. Jurassic Park was released in 1992 and their CGI still holds up. Also, CGI isn’t just about how well the graphics are made but how it’s incorporated into the movie. Jurassic Park used animatronics for the close ups so it made the CGI parts relatively seamless. But in the Matrix Reloaded it goes from a few brief realistic fighting moves… to all of a sudden *_everyone_* is a balloon animal and can jump over buildings. Too ambitious.

[@nathanapplegate5374]

You think that was good for 2003? LOL. Ever heard of Lord of the Rings?

[@MasterAnakinSkyWalker]

Universal: 1993: make dinosaurs look real, success 2001: make an actor look like a man/scorpion hybrid, epic failure

[@certified_fresh]

Leave The Matrix out of this.

[@ImperialScoundrel]

agreed. i have seen plenty cgi effects worse then that but better then i am legends

[@sorartificial]

agree

[@lichnost99]

Yeah... the plot is literally happening inside a computer program... it should not look "realistic"

[@sallymagnani6842]

Fr!!!!

[@nathanapplegate5374]

You do realize that Lord of the Rings came out at the same time right? That had infinitely better CGI.

[@D0S81]

best cgi effects ive seen so far, is in the lego movie. i watched that whole thing thinkin it was stop motion animation, only to find out it was *all* cgi!! now those are good effects!!

[@biguglybucker]

But i-... it WAS stop motion.. wha--?

[@tangyboxhead3072]

Logan Harris Nope, it was not. Even the makers of the movie showed how parts were made. All 3d animed

[@biguglybucker]

B-beh..bah...beeee.....-bbut... *head explodes*

[@tangyboxhead3072]

Mind blown. amirite?

[@aquadust]

wai- but- it's- no- w... BUT HOW?!?!?!? MIND = BLOWN

[@daneimp]

That babyface in the last Twilight movie!

[@rorynichols2310]

That baby was creepy AF

[@chayden153]

That thing was nightmare fuel.

[@astropoug7851]

+daneimp Or any face in any Twilight movie

[@brandoncampbell7406]

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[@astropoug7851]

Brandon Campbell What I would say. Dude, seriously? Who cares?

[@masonrileyf]

Im suprised spy kids 3 wasnt on this list.

[@jony4real]

Mace Dawg lol I agree it was really bad, but I don't know if anyone expected it to be good. I didn't.

[@SkidmoreTx]

+Mace Dawg though it was a dissapointed movie i don't think it counts since the movie takes place in a video game is not suppose to look real

[@BelchLover]

Well Spy Kids 2 should have also been on here

[@dn13lz]

+Mace Dawg kids don't need good CGI xD

[@basteagui]

+Mace Dawg in the opening of the video it says these films had massive budgets and shouldn't have settled for poor cgi. spy kids is made by the same people who made sharkboy and lavagirl, so there's literally no standards, bar could not possibly be lower for spy kids

[@Dechampu]

New theory on Matrix: Reloaded's Smiths Brawl shitty CGI. As the fight drags on and Smith replicates even further, RAM on the whole system becomes overencumbered and, unable to purge, keeps dropping image quality to being able to keep performance

[@1Dreamking]

I buy THAT for a dollar!

[@the_real_vdegenne]

That is not how it works lmao...

[@misterwinkybluff]

Are you talking about in the realm of the Matrix? Or in real life?

[@astonmargolis-dias7089]

Hahaha i love it

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

@@the_real_vdegenne explain it then genius

[@scyther6666]

Matrix fight scene was and still is legendary. Nothing like that was ever attempted before. Get your shit together mojo. You are starting to piss people off

[@memento81]

The idea and concept of this scene was and is brilliant. The execution not so much. There are several takes where I don't really see the need to use a CG Keanu instead of the real one and his seemingly wax-modelled face is the most distracting thing there

[@scyther6666]

There are always different ways of doing things. Any attempt can be made to make the final product better or in other words, things can always be done in a better way. Although, this is highly subjective as one person's 'better' is not necessarily the same as the other persons.

[@TheStrossus]

And you are pissing me off, shut the fuck up little boy.

[@TorvanGamer]

TheStrossus you call him a little boy but somehow im more inclined to believe your the child

[@Kingmegatr0n]

TorvanGamer Everyone is obviously mature in this conversation, can't you notice?

[@markokecman1177]

WAIT WHAT!!!!???!?!? THE MATRIX AT 10?????? That's an awesome movie and that was IMO an awesome scene...

[@markokecman1177]

***** Yeah but what I'm saying is that I actually liked all the effects in matrix...To me they were all great, and especially this scene to me was EPIC.

[@LightsJusticeZ]

I agree. But it's early 2000's and realistic human CGI really wasn't the best. I do find this a bit ironic though as the CGI scenes during the Burly Brawl were better than the live action wire effects.

[@pokekitty1]

Syntax BananaZ what i don't get is why people demand realistic cgi in a non-realistic film in the first place. i mean cgi exists to do stuff that is impossible in real life so why demand realism from something that can't ever be real anyway.

[@LightsJusticeZ]

pokekitty1 Simple. So it can blend into the movie's fantasy without you going "oh, that looks like a terrible effect" and ruin that scene.

[@justinp1011]

I played GMOD recently and the plastic scene that he told, i thought it was GMOD.. lol

[@chingu_billy5144]

Matrix cgi was godlike back then

[@alexsandroangel]

they must hate matrix, i saw no reason to be in this list, lol

[@MrMrjack18]

@@alexsandroangel The effects didin't aged well

[@asheebnataf8005]

The matrix wasnt bad considering the time it was made

[@gordonramsay6286]

Asheeb Nataf what do you mean the time it was made?

[@paingamingv2208]

Its was done by the same man who made killer bean

[@julesdelossantos751]

@@gordonramsay6286 the cgi must considered acceptable because it looks good for a 2003 film where technology is that good yet

[@julesdelossantos751]

not that good yet.*

[@allmight2795]

GUYS REMEMBER THESE ARE JUST OPINIONS Id say King Kong and Matrix was underrated Considering King Kong was made in 2005 and they didint have the same features and budget to make it better also it had some very very cool scenes and its not supposed to be very realistic it’s supposed to have merciless since it had LITERAL DINOS Id say in my opinion King Kong was pretty good the only bad scenes was the Apatasaurous Stampede

[@BigotfulDude]

good lord dwayne looked like lord farquad in shrek

[@chloehazeldene]

Yeah

[@5persondude]

+Newblank WHAT ARE YOU DOIN' IN MY TOOOOOOMB?!

[@tubbykids00]

+Newblank THE MUFFIN MAN??

[@sampsonagyapongabakah7856]

+Newblank Lmao

[@deaded2]

+Newblank , So am I the only one who thinks that Fiona looks like Oprah???

[@abhishekchoudharykhatkar4886]

Seriously Ultraviolet Should be On Top of this List!!!!

[@zedit8403]

true

[@mansurali718]

agree

[@keith_the_hoe]

Yea

[@Jmillar78]

Actually it shouldn't be on the list at all since they broke their own rule. It was an independent movie not a hollywood blockbuster and had half the budget of the second lowest budget movie in the list, Along Came a Spider.

[@uncanny1758]

It had pretty terrible effects actually.

[@anueltoolit3674]

Lmao the rock looks like a GTA character 😂😂😂

[@pepepepe7550]

Anuel Not LITTT yep

[@PerplexiaX]

LOL Agreed! ...and all they had to do is spend a little more time on it (maybe a month, tops) and it would have been much better! I'm assuming it was finished in a rush to get it out in time for it's release!

[@whatyouwerethinking998]

@@PerplexiaX or the effects back then were not as good as today

[@PerplexiaX]

Skip Ad Well, the little gremlin-like warrior guys looked pretty good... actually, it just needs some contrast and color saturation work... that alone would make it a lot better looking! Still a great flick! :-)

[@whatyouwerethinking998]

@@PerplexiaX maybe but some if these effects should have never been in the movies.

[@baluar46]

Ultraviolet is terrible. Seriously, it's way worse than the ones after it. I would feel ripped-off if I saw anything on that level in a PS2.

[@killermemesatareasonablepr9707]

I think spawn should have been on here. u mean, have you SEEN what satan looks like in that? he looks like a Muppet aardvark

[@kenonerboy]

+Baluar ppl need to stop ragging on the ps2

[@baluar46]

I'm not raging at the PS2... what made you think that? I was raging at the movie. The PS2 has some pretty cool looking games.

[@Tossboi]

+Baluar Yea i used to love that movie...but the CGI effects made my mind changed. XD

[@Paytrolah]

CHAOS HERETIC!

[@lonelykid7691]

I swear I watch these Mojo videos when it's like 3 AM

[@k.sallar5218]

Reading this at 3:12 a.m. lol

[@siddhart8555]

@@k.sallar5218 reading your comment at 2:12 am lol

[@gabycastelblanco2409]

It's 3:49 here lmao

[@nich1892]

1:55am😂😂

[@kevinoconnor497]

1:40 am

[@lukegregory5392]

Is it just me or does the matrix Effects not look that bad?

[@imtherealcolorxbelach4998]

Ikr

[@ילדלבן888]

OMG im such a big fan of u! are u the real one?

[@imtherealcolorxbelach4998]

ילד לבן 888 yes my son

[@gungaunga2207]

Hes not tye real one

[@stonaraptor8196]

its just you.

[@OMGtehEPICNESSS]

talking about bad CGI quality in a 480p video just let that sink in for a moment

[@isaaec9042]

WatchMojo- Top 10 Worst CGI Effects In movies Birdemic- Hold my beer

[@dragon_bro_0]

That should have been number 1 my friend

[@401_jake]

That would be on the list

[@swornimkarki537]

@@dragon_bro_0 ummm have you seen the amazing bulk? yeah you haven't right? please don't watch it ,birdemic looks like heaven came down to bless you compared to amazing bulk which looks like the deepest layer of hell came to shit all over you

[@Emperor_mtn_Dew]

Why does The Scorpion King look like Lord Farquaad

[@axelnilsson5124]

Must be his reincarnation

[@unitedttillidie9644]

I think matrix's scene was still pretty cool, for its time

[@Reistore]

Blaming older movies because of their CGI is like blaming this video for not being HD in 2016.

[@jayminyoel7911]

That doesn’t mean it’s good.

[@Gloobiewoobie]

Doesn’t make it bad, how can you have bad cgi if there isnt good cgi to compare.

[@JaimeTorres-ir6qo]

Homie wanted real dinosaurs in the movie smh

[@MoonsideResident]

Nah, he probably just expected them to look at least as good as the ones in Jurassic Park... you know, that movie from fucking 1993?

[@Defenseman61913]

That was a compositing complaint, not a CGI issue.

[@Peter_1986]

+Jaime Torres Nobody has said a word about "real dinosaurs", that's just a strawman argument that you brought up. What people actually wanted was more use of _animatronics,_ because there are times when animatronics in fact look better. For example, in "Jurassic Park", did you know that the sick Triceratops, the close-ups of the T.rex and the necks of the brachiosaurs were all animatronics? Check out those scenes again if you have forgotten them, and then try to tell me that they don't look convincing as hell. Oh, and the crowd of Agent Smiths in "The Matrix: Revolutions" was a bunch of actors with Mr. Smith masks. You probably didn't know that since it looked so incredibly convincing, but you can always check a "behind-the-scenes" video of that exact take here on KZbin if you want proof of that. Simply search for "behind the scenes matrix agent smith cloning" and you have it.

[@KakashiHatake-bw1ey]

Lmao I laughed too hard at this

[@TVwriter23]

they could have always kept the stop animation ones

[@tattianaledon982]

*Wtf?! Those zombies in "I am legend" Are SCARY AF!*

[@ld9822]

kinda yeah. I'm glad I watched in daylight!

[@niamhhmcu7613]

Not really...

[@dogfoegami]

same shit I said lmao

[@sirmag1735]

They vampires cuh

[@thegoldenpeingun5820]

Man I'm watching this before I sleep and now I don't want to sleep

[@geckopubg]

i disagree with the matrix, but i agree with i am legend... why couldn't they have uses real actors

[@Miloshit]

worst in Legend was intro with that red car....sooooooooo CGI.

[@RicqwanRDK146]

It would have taken a long time to find a lot of actors to play as an army of monsters.

[@Jones-ng4bc]

+Ricqwan Davis (Ricqwan DavisTV) And money.

[@RicqwanRDK146]

Jevauni Jones​ lol I forgot that

[@Szilorsi]

They initially wanted to use real actors, but they looked extremely ridiculous in ther makeup, "like a group of angry mimes", so they chose CGI.

[@moonrazor2039]

Holy shit that Ultra Violet scene looked beyond terrible, what the hell.

[@EanHaworth]

Looks like an late PS1 game w/ slightly updated graphics.

[@iansin7722]

I thought the King Kong stampede was actually pretty decent

[@belladonnahigh9206]

Nah man, when I first saw it I thought to myself, why did they fuck up that scene, cause the rest of the movie looked good. It was terrible in comparison to the rest of the movie.

[@sabalghoo]

The entire movie had very impressive CGI, but the stampede scene was just a little off. And it wasn't entirely because of the CGI, it just didn't work with the human interactions! It didn't click, didn't feel like the actors where actually immerged n involved in the scene. The Director, actors, Green screens, the plot and animations and how the scene was shot all had a bit of influence on how it turned out imo. I loved that movie and most it's effects but that whole scene felt a little too greenscreeny!!

[@jay8819]

sasuke uchiha agreed. Looking back at it, it looks very very fake. Terrible in fact, lol

[@slowpoke1015]

I read that as the kim jong in stampede 😂

[@SirKolass]

Half of them was

[@sirmag1735]

Fun fact, the " zombies " in I am legend are actually vampires.

[@snachmyweave4806]

In the book they’re both, the living vampire dead and the zombie dead-dead. The film infuriated me as it’s my fave book and they just tore it to pieces

[@sirmag1735]

@@snachmyweave4806 ah haven't heard that take yet! Didn't know there was a book, everyone just talks about the movie. Were there more parts that you didn't like?or did just that aspect ruin the whole film for you? I mean, the amount of story you can put in a book is sm more yk, one movie could never realistically cover it, so just enjoy it yk.

[@guardiane]

None of this CGI is THAT bad...if anything, it's just dated...if the same CGI was made TODAY then I could see your point.

[@retropaganda8442]

Guardiane Hello Lester :)

[@gigigigiotto1673]

I agree. For example, the ring was made in 2005. What could expect from it cgi?

[@neverlessart1815]

Guardiane They just ran out of ideas

[@akhsdenlew1861]

they are not ancient.. anything after 2005 deserves better cgi than scorpion king... And that ultra violet cgi is literally a 10 year old's work, u can see that there is no proffesionalism behind these scenes. Check lord of the rings and jurassic park 1, and watch how CGI PROFFESIONALS handle it in even older movies. Scorpion king is literally few years before the FREAKING AVENGERS!

[@patientzero94]

I think the Matrix suffered in CGI because the computer running the simulation didn't have enough RAM.

[@vincd1157]

MATRIX IN TOP 10 WORST????????? ARE YOU MAD??????????

[@mariamunoz199]

Dude, The Matrix sucks. Get over yourself.

[@akhsdenlew1861]

easy to say that in 2018 thought. Matrix was one of the better movies for a very long time, while movies like ultraviolet was straight up shit as soon as they came out. As time passes the only movie which will stay dominent is basically lord of the rings.

[@mariamunoz199]

Never ever, ever will I disagree with you on that piece of shit called "Ultraviolet" but The Matrix sucked in 1999 and it still sucks now.

[@akhsdenlew1861]

how many better movies we had in 1999 in terms of cgi ? Can u even name more than 20? If not then matrix is one of the better movies for its time. Now its 2018, its unwatchable, like the rest in this list.

[@akhsdenlew1861]

yea jurassic park is just 1 movie thought, i knew u would mention it since its the only movie u can mention. Now how many other movies we had which were better?

[@readingforklaire3252]

the rock looks like a character from.shrek

fixed :D kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXmUh2l5fbRkgM0

[@robertogodoy5577]

Christian olivas. Shrek is love, shrek is life 💗

[@visco5]

Onions

[@xstingrayx]

@ I swear i was gonna say the same. the corridor crew, good channel.

[@guyontheinternet3221]

Can anyone ever be more true

[@DexNChex]

at the time, all these effects were amazing! it's just graphics advance so rapidly that older cgis look out of date incredibly fast!

[@qoe_shiro]

I really don't get why I Am Legend is on here. I feel it was extremely well done especially for the time

[@userunknown203]

zXMNTheBigXz Right? I love that movie. Really don't get why people hate on it so much

[@Anonymous-jj3lb]

No.

[@userunknown203]

***** Yes. It really astounds me

[@dreamwarrior1276]

The effects were laughable. Get glasses.

[@qoe_shiro]

Seth Brundle Already have em, but nice try bro ;)

[@AKhellbindeR]

I still can't understand why in I Am Legend, they chose to go with CG for the zombies/monsters, instead of just having guys in make up.

[@4DIVINES]

lol

[@minihalkoja590]

ikr

[@Knifegash]

I read about that, apparently they did try to get actors with makeup to be the monsters, but because of what their infection did to their bodies, they breathe extremely rapidly, and actors that tried to do that ended up hyperventilating, so they decided to just CGI them up. I'm okay with it, since they had Mike Patton do the sounds all of them make.

[@phayzyre1052]

I agree. The "zombies" in I Am Legend looked more like rabid Neo-Nazi skinhead street bums than they looked like monsters!

[@hermionegranger6679]

They should've just stuck with vampires like in the book

[@berzerk8010]

How dare you insult the matrix. It's over 10 years old, and back then, the effects were really cool. They still are.

[@dadillonful]

They were shit then

[@vavys1429]

If it were made today with the same effects, it'll be egged on (literally!)

[@FilmmakerJ]

I think with the Matrix, it's the only movie I know of where you can give the lower quality effects a pass, because it fits with the aspect of the movie taking place inside a computerized universe. It's like, there's so many Agent Smiths in one place, so the computer has a hard time loading them all correctly; so it has to lower the quality to compensate. It's a little like how TRON had some issues in the printing process when the back-lighting was composited in, and certain frames came back over-exposed. But director Steven Lisberger kept the bad frames because it fit with the computer world sparking and bleeping and doing other little things in the background.

[@bigdawg3683]

Not sure the problem's with the Agent Smiths, but with Gumby Neo. At least, that's what I felt looked wrong with the scene when I first saw it in the theater.

[@lordskysixss]

The agents and neo are in the same area, have you played mmo wih a shitty pc, don't mind your character in a over populated area you have to lower the visual quality otherwise you wont even move therefore you char will also look horrible.

[@CallMeSirPhobos]

lol, so the matrix can render literally an entire world of people, animals, plants, etc., but not a room-full of the same guy. Yea, not buying that.

[@FilmmakerJ]

George Bell A computer of any kind can have issues with glitches and corrupted encoding if it suddenly creates multiple versions of the same guy. It's like if in a video game, you're shooting down a bunch of random enemies, but one guy can't die because he keeps popping back up again and again and again. Imagine if that glitch was expanded to include an entire room-full of the same character, all with the same code that describes who he is and where he is, and imagine that none of them can die. Now the computer becomes confused as hell, just trying to make sense of the duplicate code required to make dozens of the same guy appear in the same room. I'll admit, I don't know if that explanation is entirely accurate. But I've seen similar things happen in videos about horrible game glitches, and they certainly don't allow the computer to run efficiently, or even work at all. So seeing the Agent Smith clones reduced in resolution still makes some sense, I think. It doesn't excuse the computer animators from doing a low-quality job on the film, but within the film's narrative, there's still an argument to be made for why it still looks like it makes sense.

[@ewan.cartwright]

I like to explain Clu's CGI-face by saying that he's such an old program that his file has been corrupted.

[@Boba_Fett1980]

Let's add Superman's cgi mustache to this list.

[@paulhostetter4212]

I agree.

[@hellothere2052]

Fan-tabulous

[@margotsmith3116]

Renesme as a baby in Breaking Dawn

[@shortbreaddistudios503]

My entire family cringed when we sw how bad THAT cgi was...

[@poptartfairyful]

Margot Smith lmfao I screamed

[@sim685]

ShortBreaddi 8

[@chelsss12112]

OMG YES WTF I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THIS

[@Gulegardiners]

YES!!!

[@goofybutserious4807]

2001: Rock as Scorpion King 2019: Rock is Black Adam!

[@charismabros5352]

the dinosaurs in king Kong looked pretty real tbh

[@mrhowl8715]

Yeah. It was matter of the actors.

[@achraf844]

yeah , better than most of new movies

[@_Epsilon_]

The problem there is more in the bad blending of dinosaurs and people.

[@vind3x]

It's all about of how bad they were inserted on the scene.

[@awesomedude2164]

lets all remember that there really are no dinosaurs.

[@sexton__hardcastle]

Jaws 3. Shark still hasn't moved a fin to this day.

[@patriots5xchampions50]

Evil CM Punk That video is why I'm here, shocked its not here

[@VanillaFejz]

Jack Bryson That was a practical effect.

[@sexton__hardcastle]

VanillaFejz The shark was CGI, though.

[@219SilverChoc]

Evil CM Punk yes it was

[@stoatsman]

+Evil CM Punk No, Jaws III was 1983. It was a practical effect. Early 80's CGI was Tron (1982) and The Last Starfighter (1984), they weren't rendering sharks in 1983... Even bad ones...

[@SWAGCOWVIDEO]

When these movies came out, I never really thought that any of these effects were necessarily bad. I guess as technology moves on up, so does our standards of what it brings.

[@sizlax]

Out of all these, I actually did think the scorpion king's face looked phony even when I first watched it.

[@FluxFresh96]

I actually like the "bad" cgi from the ultraviolet movie. With movies like that where the entire opening is comic drawn style i don't really expect realism, but try to use my fantasy/imagination more. This makes it more enjoyable. If you think more like: "what im watching right now is *only* telling the story and leaves your imagination do the rest" instead of "it happened exactly like this...", then a lot of movies/scenes pass the obstacle of trying to be as realistic as possible. I'm also pretty sure that "Ultraviolet" didnt try to be realistic looking in the first place, if you consider the weird filter which makes the movie look weird and different. They really didnt try to hide it which makes it great in a different way. Now when a movie tries to be super realistic and fails with cgi then that is cringe worthy to me, which is basically 90% of what we have today.

[@DrakeyC]

I haven't seen Ultraviolet, but that clip you showed was HIDEOUS. And I'm the kind of guy who can let bad effects slide, but that looked like a PS2 cutscene, and not a very good one. The Scorpion King, well with a film like that, you could defend the CG by saying he's an overworldly demon, so maybe he shouldn't look fully real. It's an excuse, but you could say it. There is nooooo excusing Ultraviolet's motorcycle chase, that's the real world, look real dammit.

[@TotallyNotAFox]

Believe me, you don´t need to see Ultraviolet

[@LFLloureiro]

well the bike was riding on walls, soo it isn't exactly real world, although when i saw ultraviolet i liked it.. but that was it, not a film worth mentioning thou

[@lequinow]

To be fair, the whole movie had that blocky cartoony effect. The motorbike scene just pushed it to far.

[@DrakeyC]

Logey Bogey And my username is a guy's. What, you think I was a transvestite?

[@BigIrick]

Ultraviolet is actually one of my favorite movies. It really does look good on bluray.

[@nosfrattirek5690]

>top 10 worst CGI effects >matrix on the list just lol.

[@mlody969]

***** matrix is most overrated movie ever. simple, stupid story covered by tones of fx

[@nosfrattirek5690]

***** Well I watched the Matrix trilogy last year for the first time, I was 22 at the time and I was still fucking impressed. Not THE best I had ever seen, but definitely among the best. Far better than 90% of more recent movies. And besides being good, it had a unique appeal to it, a unique 'vibe', something that "better" movies nowadays might lack.

[@aykutmutlu2571]

Dareios soieraD Simple stupid story? It has a magnificent scenario and imagination that makes it also a sci-fi. It is so stupid to talk about physics of effects and movie cause its not in real world that you can talk about physics at these scenes

[@malanakingh4026]

It's funny that King Kong is in this, when it won Best VIsual Effects in the Oscars.

[@hwalnut7202]

This needs to be updated now that justice league and sonic are things

[@austinwaninger1097]

The only bad cg in justice league is henry cavills mustache

[@hwalnut7202]

Doctabruh3456 Also steppenwolf and his minions

[@austinwaninger1097]

Ehh theyre werent that many flaws it looks pretty acceptional not bad by any means

[@hi-cz8zd]

a hecking walnut sonic got fixed and the cgi on the original wasn’t bad. It’s like you don’t know what cgi is

[@Batman-nr4en]

Watch the snyder cut

[@xXmutantpancakeXx]

Yet no spy kids? that animation could be better made in BLENDER.

[@mcrfan343]

It's gets a pass because it's a kids movie.

[@xXmutantpancakeXx]

mcrfan343 I suppose...

[@UncleExplosion]

+Joe Bob Heh! Don't remind me of my childhood. It's too scary. D:

[@L.J.Kommer]

+Joe Bob More like Pivot. :/

[@finnjensen9002]

+Joe Bob You didn't even ever use Blender more than "creating" a box, didn't you?

[@3rdPlaya0709]

Ultraviolet should have been 1

[@nikto7-b1b]

or maybe 2. The effects were bad, but since the whole movie was made this way the viewer could think of it as about some kind of stylisation. A shitty one, but still...and as for the mummy - the whole movie looked actually ok until this scene. I still remember facepalming as I saw it back then

[@VeyLaren]

BTW this person also probably does not recognize timeline variations. It is like comparing Doom 2 with Battlefield 4. You don't go around saying doom 2 has bad graphics because when it came it there was nothing else like it and it was the best. When matrix came out, it fucking had the best cgi ever. Even that scene was amazing at the time. Now, if you compare it to avatar obviously it is gonna fall short. That is called the passage of time. Next thing you know, this guy is gonna list star wars in the worst cgi effects list.....

[@nirdjha2000]

Sorry, you can't apply that example to MATRIX RELOADED - the original film relied on more practical effects than people realize - the famous 360 shot is actually created with multiple cameras, and not 100% CGI. In RELOADED, they thought the digital was good enough and they made the mistake so many filmmakers make in thinking that CGI can do ANYTHING! It can't - and that scene was unnecessary to go as long as it did - even at the time, it looked terrible. I watch JURASSIC PARK every few years, which was at least 5 years before MATRIX RELOADED, and the effects in that still look incredible, even today (minus the stampeded scene). MATRIX RELOADED had no excuse to look that bad. If you can't be convincing with your effect, then cut the effect.

[@Anradak]

nirdjha2000 indeed, developers got lazier by time, after cgi effects got popular in films, the best effects in amovie you can find are from the 70´s to 00´s and those excellent effects were product of a perfect make up work

[@kxish]

Matrix Reloaded was a piece of crap. Even back then I thought the special effects were laughable.

[@mattthomas584]

"Dark seekers aren't very scary" But if one came at you i bet money yo ass would run😂

[@kclovesgaming]

Deceiving list mainly because most of the movies on this list are when CGI was still at that stage where making things realistic was almost impossible. But for its time it was considered good.

[@VermalgabBoom]

That is what I was thinking when I watched the list as well.

[@MauroTamm]

Vermalgab Boom the first matrix movie was one of the biggest mistakes... look at the year it was made -_- - Production would have been at around 2000. Go and take a look at pc games from that time.

[@MP-vi8hj]

That's not true at all. The effects in Jurassic park are more impressive than anything on this list, and it was also made several years earlier than all of the movies listed. Like he said, they all have respectable or large budgets, with the exception of Ultraviolet.

[@thedoomjay]

Elida Landry the dinosaurs in jurassic park weren't cgi. they were real-life models that they moved around on set. even the "currently-being-eaten" humans were replaced with models. no cgi :3

[@azn1011]

Artofdadress Streamer Jurassic Park used a mixture of animatronics and CGI.

[@theonlyreega]

How could they forget Mortal Kombat:Annihilation? That movie's CGI is so horrible it makes you think it was made in the 1970's

[@MestariDuff]

Also the budget was of $30,000,000... wow...

[@flips220]

MestariDuff Holy shit O_o

[@ginger4201]

you gotta remember at the time this was the best cgi there was

[@xaver831]

ginger4201 agreed.

[@ReMeDy_TV]

ginger4201 I highly agree #1 deserves the top spot, and yes the CGI was bad even for its time. I remember seeing that in a movie, and thinking, "They can't be serious." They turned Dwayne Johnson into a fucking Final Fantasy CGI face! It stood out so much from everything else in the film, that it was glaring! Furthermore, the director's had the nerve to zoom in on this face and regard him as the final villain/obstacle/boss/whatever. It's also a shame because the set pieces and everything else felt like triple-budget quality, and then you just see that crappy CGI face and the whole movie feels like one big joke, leading up to the Rock's face as the punchline.

[@bluclowd8182]

ginger4201 False. These are just movies with bad CGI *even* for their time. Go watch the infamous T-Rex scene of the original Jurassic Park. Yes, there were animatronics used in some shots, but all the shots of the dinosaur walking are CGI and THAT even to this day looks pretty great and 100% better than any of these effects. There's a part in that scene where the T-Rex, after flipping over the SUV vehicle with the kids inside, begins to chomp at the underneath of the car and then it takes a bite of the rubber on the wheel. The T-Rex is CGI there and looks really dang good, but forget that: That *SUV* was CGI, in that shot! The movies on this list were made in the 2000's and even up to 2008. Jurassic Park was made in 1993, which means the software was existing in at latest 1992. That's *more* than a decade! Go watch that whole sequence then come back and tell us with a straight face that these movies were using the best they had for their era and budget.

[@bluclowd8182]

***** Not everybody had the money or the talent to make their movies look like Jurassic Park, that is true. But the movies on this top 10 list DID, that was the criteria needed to be on the list in the first place. They had sufficient budgets to do it justice. Many of them had larger budgets even than Jurassic park, or even the same amount (with inflation calculated into it). You have to just face the fact that the reason these visuals were bad was because people dropped the ball. Because professionals were not professional. It's not that hard to understand.

[@armoredgaming2352]

***** Also the lord of the rings trilogy had great CGI as well.

[@lzus3556]

Watch mojo: worst cgi movie effects Filipino movies: Am I a joke to you?

[@TheFishCostume]

"Look at how little detail there is in these movies!" *uploads video in 480p*

[@MP-vi8hj]

You don't need 720 or 1080p to see terrible cgi. There's no detail to see.

[@TheFishCostume]

Elida Landry I disagree. It's hard to see a lack of detail when there's already a lack of detail.

[@BeyondSideshow]

TheFishCostume Yet more detail wouldn't save any of these failures.

[@TheFire1290]

TheFishCostume There's no detail to see, so it makes no difference. Better resolution wouldn't save any of these cgi monstrosities.

[@TheFishCostume]

TheFire1290 I don't even know where to start.

[@ReneAensland]

The first Wolverine movie. The restroom scene when he's checking out his blades in front of the mirror.

[@MattJackson314]

+Rene Aensland That scene far out-sucks anything on this list!

[@NhBleker]

the matrix one shouldn't be on here. I don't know about you, but that fight was one of the best fights in the whole series.

[@kurai_arashi]

They even mentioned that in one of their vids.

[@hockeymass2386]

It sure wasn't. The CGI in that sequence was horrendous.

[@oqasho.]

The design of the fight sequence was very good, but the CGI were very bad that made the scene unrealistic and dull, which made it less enjoyable.

[@Nightslash-wq6gw]

one of the best and most pointless

[@ELFanatic]

It was so stupid. That fight scene is when Matrix jumped the shark for me.

[@dizzolve]

I thought the zombies in Legend were pretty creepy looking

[@NativePride4051]

Hey thanks for that. Idk y I never thought of that. I always thought it was kinda weird they hurt from sunlight but now that makes sense!

[@japa0820]

I will put here The Hobbit - The battle of the 5 armies (War scene). As a Tolkien fan and a LOTR huge fan, i was sooo disappointet on how the cgi fucked up The hobbit trilogy in terms of war, too much cgi, compared to The battle of helms deep or the charge of the rohirrim fot LOTR, The hobbit war scenes suck.

[@Paisly_]

You are right i just saw it it was awful...the battle on the pellenor fields looked so much better

[@greetingsmars]

Yea, I was really disappointed with the CGI in that movie.

[@MascaMD]

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies was released in 17 December 2014, the video was uploaded on 15 August 2013, so there is no way The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies could be in there... do you people even watch the release date?

[@RikudoTM]

MascaMD Good point. Also The Hobbit is nowhere near as bad in CGI as any of these films, it certainly isn't perfect but it sure as he'll isn't one of the top 10 worst CGI. Weta is one of the best companies for CGI. Although of course some blame goes to everyone involved, I believe the quality was lower due to the short notice on the 2 part film being made into a trilogy.. Azog was one of the last CGI changes in the first Hobbit and he looked absolutely amazing, Dain, elves, Gandalf and some others however did have terrible CG animation.

[@jasonarendt9076]

TheSpartanCV Thorin and Kili died in the books dude, cant exactly make the movie differ on that point.

[@VaunShiz]

Actually a lot of these especially the matrix .. we're limited by their time.. humans are the hardest to animate and try a whole crowd. The ultraviolet scene looked on purpose that whole movie is full of odd effects and visuals.. Not just that one scene

[@freakycookie101]

Worst CGI ever? This is what we thought was AMAZING movie effects back in the day.

[@acbeaumo]

The Scorpion King from the Mummy Returns was terrible though. It looked ridiculous from the start.

[@Aspie183]

The CGI Imhotep from the original "The Mummy" (1999) actually looks more realistic than the Scorpion King from the "The Mummy Returns" (2001). Look at the year's and you'll see why people were annoyed at it. It doesn't even look like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.v

[@pfc3005]

5:26 _Unbelievable fake impossible actions_ Fast and furious: “Yeah... *you’re hired!”*

[@jasonstatham2966]

this is the main reason I miss the old movies form the 80's where special effects were more practical, Hollywood is getting carried away with these half assed CGI attempts. CGI can work out very well sometimes, but other times...not so much. That is why I do all my own stunts.

[@fenty666666]

One word: Badass

[@saulgonzalez1645]

I Am Legend is one of my favorite movies but was too short in my opinion D:

[@Barrie96]

Mr. Solo Dolo I hated the way it ended. Other than that it was a good movie

[@rahabrahman9213]

Nick Barrie the movie actually has two ending

[@radicalmortal3421]

I really don't see how the I am Legend one is here. The creatures were meant to look deformed, and when I first watched it when I was younger, it terrified me.

[@zachmorley9566]

Yes, when you were younger.

[@radicalmortal3421]

Still scary, besides, when did I say how old I was at the time?

[@MitremTheMighty]

Sure, they were meant to look deformed. But they weren't meant to look like cheap CGI. That's the point.

[@realme_c2]

"Top 10 Worst CGI Movie Effects" Meanwhile me: immediately has flashbacks to Black Widow (2020) and Black Panther (2018)

[@unclebully1543]

But what about shark boy and lava girl that had the worst CGI in history

[@kwanimal4497]

One word: Birdemic

[@darkomatter]

delete this

[@anupamsinghrathore5437]

Totally agreed

[@charlie182x]

it's unfair include that movie in the top, would be the winner by default, it's like the New York Yankees against a Minor League Team.

[@hoenilol]

Um hello that movie would be on the good use of CGI

[@CubamusPrime]

Nothing will beat R.I.P.D. horrible for a movie that was released on 2013.

[@RichardHarker]

Lol ***** Was probably one of, if not, the dumbest shit I have ever seen. 

[@Gladiihator]

***** what was painful about is release?

[@BigD7997]

is it that bad? I was gonna check it out

[@thetomatoist1]

I didn't think it was that bad... yeah the CGI wasn't up to par but it was decent enough to make a good movie.

[@CubamusPrime]

thetomatoist1 bad CG just kill the experience of any movie.

[@vjm3]

Oh come on number 10? That scene was as legendary as the whole first movie! Mojo is seeing this through hindsight goggles. You gotta look at it from the perspective when it first came out.

[@ackmandesu8538]

The scene was badass and I still think it was one of the coolest things in the movie... But it looked awful. It still does. The Path Of Neo video game looked pretty much the same and it was a PS2 game.

[@NoOne3234]

There is nothing in the second movie that even comes close to the first.

[@nickgonzales5389]

Isnt the matrix a digital reality anyway? its gets a free pass in my eyes. maybe they did it on purpose.

[@elcap22]

Watchmojo sucks tbh. Don't understand how they get so many views and subscribers.

[@yothischeetobussin1279]

UltraViolet was the 2nd worst CGI, I honestly ever seen. I liked the Matrix CGI and I cannot lie.

[@linwoodvalentine7693]

#1 worst CGI is birdemic

[@sheriffaboubakar9720]

Nicky 2ds Birdemic doesn't even have CGI, it has some sort of special effects in it though and yea they look like trash.

[@NeoDragoN7676]

The Agent Smith fight looked amazing when it was released.

[@FreeTheDonbas]

Nope.

[@HolyFireFall]

Compared to...what? That one scene did more to destroy the Matrix series as every other cited issue combined. The CGI artists barely even bothered to phone it in on that one.

[@godwishyoutube]

Agreee. Putting Matrix on this list is so stupid.

[@Thegoodlol]

Agreed. Now it doesn't look as good but when it was released it was just fantastic.

[@FreeTheDonbas]

The Matrix isn't on the list, the crappy sequel is, which was crappy at the time as well as now.

[@TorchTaylor21]

Kinda think Ultraviolet deserved number 1

[@fagarehrh5183]

***** I don't agree. The setting of the film has nothing to do with quality of CG effects. In fact its easier for being science fiction because it has a lot of architecture and non organic stuff, which is easier. Animating a character needs more work. UV is just ... gross. Should have been #1

[@ChromaLuke]

fagar ehrh I agree with you. UV's so bad I think the Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns deserves no. 4 or lower.

[@tompayne3200]

Ultraviolet was made in 2006 i'm 100% they had better CGI's then a SNES :S

[@emelito888]

In ultraviolet, the graphics were supposed to be that way because it was supposed to be in a comic book-like reference.

[@VaraAccountti]

Emelito Medina Lol, nope

[@emelito888]

Dammit.

[@farathor_]

Miten vitussa saan nimen ilman välejä Toi on kyllä hieno nimi

[@Uurrgg3]

I Am Legend CGI was awesome. I didn’t even once think they were shit. And they were pretty freakin scary if you ask me.

[@Alex-gf5xn]

Watch african cgi Effects

[@Alex-gf5xn]

The Unknown i can do that effects for $2

[@GoatPopsicle]

They are doing those effects on a shoestring budget, with less than $100,000 for the entire movie. Hollywood is paying tens of millions for this crap.

[@GoatPopsicle]

If you want bad FX like this one the same budget. Some of China’s big budget CGI-fest movies look like hot trash.

[@drgenki6491]

man the man is killing us man

[@hl8808]

Alex Flek b14 BURNIN

[@Jah_LEASE_yah]

the effects in King Kong were amazing! Seriously that giant gorilla looked so real that when the movie ended I had to remind myself that he wasn't actually real.

[@miguelchundalinklara9471]

Disagreeing with you , Matrix was revolutionary for its time, set a precedent for the use of CGI , The Mummy Returns was also an achievement for the CGI...

[@Marth8880]

+Tokyo Gaijin Fucking lol, seriously? This isn't a list of "worst CGI effects for their time", it's a list of "CGI movie effects that look terrible nowadays". The fact that they were revolutionary for their time has absolutely nothing to do with it.

[@yahwehsgod]

"Just to be clear, we're singling out the CGI from films with respectable or massive budgets that shouldn't have settled for second rate and unfinished looking effects." Nowhere does it say anything close to what you are.

[@miguelchundalinklara9471]

Tokyo Gaijin Oh yes :v

[@miguelchundalinklara9471]

yahwehsgod It is that they should not put them here :(

[@yahwehsgod]

Meant to reply to aaron

[@ashybear1215]

The majority of these are fine imo. Leaving out big budget films was a mistake. Their overuse of cgi to the point where they can't make it all look good is the problem with Hollywood right now.

[@mr.froglegs]

What do ya mean? All of these movies are big budget.

[@teejaynumber13]

I always thought Ultraviolet effects were bad on purpose as a sort of spoof on all those asian "motorcycle hero" movies.

[@ItsGonnaBeBiblical]

I still don't know how Indiana Jones 4 ended... when the George of the Jungle scene happened I got up and walked out of the theater

[@SwagMcFresh]

You didn't miss anything. It ended with an alien spaceship.

[@Chubzdoomer]

Practical effects will always > CGI. See John Carpenter's "The Thing" for a great example.

[@raidersSolja]

not always.

[@Chubzdoomer]

raidersSolja I hate CGI. To me it never has the same impact as practical effects.

[@bigjimman]

Chubzdoomer LordOfTheRings?

[@boiledelephant]

Absolutely agree. C.f. Aliens, which was entirely animatronic and still looks downright amazing thanks to skillful production and direction.

[@boiledelephant]

hulkjimi Funfact: a huge majority of all the effects and environs in LOTR were scale models, not CGI. It was a big factor in why all the locations looked so tangible, convincing and gritty - they were real (just tiny).

[@Akash-us3mo]

What the hell? King Kong got best Visual effects award and undoubtedly its the best CGI till date even though the film released in 2005

[@HaloMC117]

The Green lantern

[@supermovies4625]

Yup. The suit looked like shit

[@petercardiff4211]

+HaloMC117 they took cool and made him a fool with a tool.

[@theredbrother6520]

Pfft. I see your Green Lantern and I raise you One The Last Airbender AND R.I.P.D.

[@snowpegasi2340]

+TheRedMarioBrother A respectable attempt, but I'm gonna say Dragonball Evolution.

[@Electro21964]

What's tragic is that the suit looked awesome in concept art and drawings, but in live-action it looked awful. They should've just made the costume full on physical had the glowing effects be LEDs or CGI.

[@JustCallMeKopi]

yea, the Agent Smith/ Neo battle started to look like a video game and The Rock as the Scorpion King was brutal

[@JustCallMeKopi]

So was Star Wars.... Star wars was much better

[@AidanNevins]

The Matrix should not be included. Think of the time it was made then go look back at some bad 90's flicks. I am Legend...I hate the movie but still the effects were good.

[@Sharooka]

The scorpion king had terrible CGI but I disagree about The Matrix Reloaded.

[@krisCrashTV]

Ultraviolet looks almost like a style choice, but I'll have to see the whole thing to judge!

[@bthdimension]

It's a style choice that came with the small budget. It's better not to try to make realistic CGI if you don't have the money, so they decided to make it look like a comic. The whole thing looks like Mirror's Edge, so I like it :-)

[@adammcdonald7268]

Neo's fight against the Agent Smiths was awesome... thumb up this post if you disagree with Mojo for putting it on the list!

[@handshakes76]

the fight was awesome. the cgi was not.

[@laryonyt]

***** Like wasn't enough to show how much I agree with that sentence. Not CGI parts of that fight were amazing.

[@michaelbriseno2967]

Nope, that movie sucked.

[@SilkyBadger]

Agreed, may be the CGI was a little off, but it was the cutting edge of what they could do at the time, and it was a great scene.

[@user-zc6ul8nv1j]

Add in The Hobbit now. They ruined the orcs. The movie cost over 1 billion dollars and followed Lord of the Rings, which had some of the greatest special effects of all time. There's no excuse. Jackson went full George Lucas.

[@teganhunter9977]

I agree. The CGI orcs are beyond redemption.

[@baeylor6812]

Omg nobody cares anymore!

[@repulser93]

The Orcs looked preety damn good to me. I couldn't even tell it was CGI.

[@LordVader1094]

Indeed.

[@LordVader1094]

Adam Sherman But many of us could tell.

[@dacypher22]

It seems weird to include the Darkseekers from I am Legend on both "Top 10 Scariest CGI Monsters" and "Top 10 Worst CGI Effects". Wouldn't being a bad effect prevent it from being scary? "They are not very convincing and thus, not very scary". You said it yourself here. It seems there could be a communication gap between people making videos.

[@gabrielmascitti8418]

how about sharknado? masterpiece

[@shrekshreker3758]

sharknado was intentionally bad bro

[@silviaferraz8501]

shrek shreker u sure?

[@pinguinoencuarentena783]

Sílvia Ferraz it is supossed to be unreallistic and low budget

[@kkealohanui]

Gabriel Mascitti yeah that movie is shetty af

[@SirKolass]

Yeah, they are really stupid, all that shit CGI movies and they saying these amazing CGIs are bad..

[@colejohnston26]

As for The Mummy Returns, the Scorpion King's face was the only downfall here. For 2001, the body cgi is actually pretty impressive. A bit more texture on the face, or simply using his real face would have made it perfect.

[@m3gusta17]

Agreed. His face was the only very disagreeable part.

[@GreenDay1695]

It's so weird watching that Bond scene now. As a kid, I never noticed how damn fake it looked.

[@oceanmantakemebythehandlea5620]

And now, you can say nothing to infinity war.

[@crade7338]

idk man, after rewatching some effects looked... weird