Random Worst CGI Moments In '90s Movies (19 items)

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  (#2) Lost in Space

  • Heather Graham, Gary Oldman, Lacey Chabert, Matt LeBlanc, William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Jared Harris, Edward Fox, Lennie James, June Lockhart, Angela Cartwright, Jack Johnson

  The characters in Lost in Space run into a cute little alien creature - described as a "monkey lizard" - Blarp along their travels. The CGI job on the little guy is rough, though, because it's very obvious that Matt LeBlanc isn't holding anything when he's supposed to be holding Blarp. The clear disconnect between the alien and the human characters is obvious throughout, which pulls viewers out of the movie.
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  (#19) Event Horizon

  • Laurence Fishburne, Jason Isaacs, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan, Sean Pertwee, Emily Booth, Richard T. Jones, Teresa May, Jack Noseworthy, Noah Huntley, Peter Marinker, Robert Jezek, Holley Chant, Barclay Wright

  Dr. Weir destroys the window in the ship in Event Horizon, causing the glass the shatter and items to fly out into space. While the glass appears it's supposed to have some sort of 3D effect - but doesn't - the remainder of the debris comes out in the most unrealistic way. Each piece is sent spinning more calmly into space than it should be as the rest of the scene implies it should. 
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  (#18) The Frighteners

  • Michael J. Fox, Peter Jackson, R. Lee Ermey, Melanie Lynskey, Dee Wallace, John Astin, Chi McBride, Jeffrey Combs, Jake Busey, Peter Dobson, Troy Evans, Michael Robinson, Trini Alvarado, Elizabeth Hawthorne, John Leigh, John Sumner, Angela Bloomfield, Todd Rippon, Stuart Devenie, Ken Blackburn, Anthony Ray Parker, Julianna McCarthy, Desmond Kelly, Jim Fyfe, Leslie Wing, Matthew Chamberlain, Jim McLarty, Billy Jackson, Genevieve Westcott, Liz Mullane, George Port, Taea Hartwell, Leslie Klein, K.C. Kelly, Jonathan Blick, Vivienne Kaplan, Paul Yates, Frank Edwards, Charlie McClellan, Sophie Watkins, Nicola Cliff, Tony Hopkins, George Grover, Max Grover, Danny Lineham, Grant Aldridge, Lewis Martin, Clay Nelson, William Pomeroy, Alan O'Leary

  While trying to run from the Grim Reaper, Frank and Magda crash their car, and the Reaper catches up to them. As the Reaper takes Magda's life, he propels himself into her and they crash down on the forest ground. When they land, it's obvious neither the Reaper nor Magda is actually hitting the ground - in fact, they almost look as though they've landed on a cushion that bounces back initially. The bad effects take viewers completely out of the movie, even if for that one second.
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  (#12) Jumanji

  • Kirsten Dunst, Robin Williams, Patricia Clarkson, Bebe Neuwirth, David Alan Grier, Frank Welker, Bonnie Hunt, Laura Bell Bundy, Jonathan Hyde, Bradley Pierce, Tom Woodruff Jr., Malcolm Stewart, James Handy, Gillian Barber, Adam Hann-Byrd, Peter James Bryant, Darryl Henriques, Lloyd Berry, Daniel Olsen, Robyn Driscoll, Jaysen Clough, Annabel Kershaw, David Szehi, Cyrus Thiedeke, Gary Joseph Thorup, Brenda Lockmuller, Frederick Richardson, Brandon Obray, Florica Vlad, Leonard Zola, Sarah Gilson, June Lion

  CGI animals are often only under supreme scrutiny when they're common household pets people are used to seeing - their features are more recognizable and thus are more noticable when something's off. But Jumanji recreated lesser known animals like monkeys, elephants, and mosquitos. That doesn't mean these animals get off scott free as realistic, though. The worst of all may even be the monkeys that make a mess of the kitchen - but their scary facial features are just the start of what makes them look unsettling. The unrealistic issues with the CGI monkeys definitely pulls the audience out and makes it more and more obvious these creatures are that of a board game - entirely fictional.
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  (#11) Double Dragon

  • Alyssa Milano, Andy Dick, Vanna White, Robert Patrick, George Hamilton, Mark Dacascos, Scott Wolf, Al Leong, Michael Berryman, Julia Nickson-Soul, Roger Yuan, John Mallory Asher, Ron Yuan, Leon Russom, Nils Allen Stewart, Jeff Imada, Henry Kingi, Vincent Klyn, David Early, Rio Hackford, Rohn Thomas, Kristina Wagner, Mark Brazill, Garrett Warren, Richard Fike, Ed Feldman, Brian Imada, Stephen R. Campanella, Cory Milano, Sara Fike, Danny Wong, Joe L'Erario, Chuck Gillespie, Ken McLeod, John T. Grantham, Bruce Strickland, Deanthony Langston, Jim Aleck, Donald Nugent, Patrica Cascino, Verle Majied, Irene Tanaka

  When Shadow Warrior Koga Shoku possesses Jimmy's brother Billy, the two face off in a battle. Once the medallion around Jimmy's neck is knocked onto the ground, Shoku's shadow body slithers over and snags the medallion half to take a bodily form - the CGI in the transformation is hilarious. He begins emerging from his shadow form from what looks like a black hole, turning into a holographic type person filled with TV static.  
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  (#6) Air Force One

  • Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, Philip Baker Hall, Wendy Crewson, Xander Berkeley, Oleg Taktarov, Jürgen Prochnow, Paul Guilfoyle, Elya Baskin, Bill Smitrovich, Liesel Pritzker Simmons, Andrew Divoff, Glenn Morshower, Donna Bullock, Thom Barry, Tom Everett, Robert Peters, Spencer Garrett, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Don McManus, Dan Shor, Ilia Volok, Diana Bellamy, Timothy Carhart, Mark Thompson, Thomas Crawford, Willard E. Pugh, Alan Migicovski, Alex Veadov, E. E. Bell, Gordon Michaels, David Vadim, Levan Uchaneishvili, Michael Monks, Mario Roberts, David O'Donnell, Paul Bishop, Brian Libby, Boris Lee Krutonog, J. A. Preston, Carl Weintraub, Chris Howell, George Meyers, Harry Hutchinson, Richard Doyle, Ren Hanami, Daniel W. Barringer, Alan Woolf, David Permenter, Tony Boldi, Suzanne Michaels, Bruce Holman, Albert Owens, Werner Sonne, Mike Hambrick, Keith Woulard, Fenton Lawless, Michael Ray Miller, Paul Sklar, Robb Derringer, Kristian Sorensen, Stuart Nixon, J. Mark Donaldson, William Victor Skrabanek, Elester Latham, Marciarose Shestack, Aleks Shaklin, David Gianopoulos, Messiri Freeman, Jim Harley, Catherine T. Yang, Duke Miglin, Marty Rosen, Mark Knutson, Lee Faranda, Igor N. Lobotsky, David MacIsaac, Koko Kiledjian, J. Scott Shonka

  Not only does the Gibbs hanging out the window as the President's plane crashes into the Caspian Sea clearly look like green screen, the plane tumbles on the water unrealistically as well. Because they use the force of the water as reason the plane breaks apart, the damage done isn't even seemingly catastrophic leaving the ending a little flat. Factor in the fact that the water behind the crash doesn't seem phased at all, this CGI is just plain bad.

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