Computer graphics have made huge progress over the years, but some big-budget films from the 2010s still ended up with terrible CGI.
5. Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
With a $136 million budget, the final Twilight film should have looked amazing, but instead, we got awkward CGI scenes, like Bella running strangely and Renesmee’s creepy face. The special effects, especially in the final battle, were just bad.
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
This remake tried to replace real effects with CGI, but it didn’t work. Freddy climbing on walls looked fake and cheap, and the makeup for Freddy was not as scary as the original.
3. Sharknado (2013)
Sharknado became a cult favorite, but mostly because the bad special effects were funny. Tornadoes full of flying sharks looked like they were made with old computer graphics, and the movie had too many cheesy green screens and bad animation.
2. Cats (2019)
The Cats movie became famous for its terrible CGI. The human-cat characters had weird bodies and moved strangely, and things like Judi Dench's extra fingers made the movie look silly before it even came out.
The CGI mistakes were so obvious that the studio released an updated version with "improved graphics." However, this didn’t save the film from being labeled one of the biggest failures of the decade.
1. Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
If you thought things couldn’t get worse, Birdemic will easily prove you wrong. The birds attacking people look like clip art from a beginner’s tutorial. They move erratically, hover in the air, and make it seem like the movie was made in the 1960s, not 2010.
While some viewers saw the film as "so bad, it's good," the CGI remains a textbook example of poor special effects. It’s one of those cases where the graphics are so bad you start appreciating even the weakest competitors.
