I loved Peter Jackson's "King Kong"; I thought it was a spectacular film. The dinosaur stampede was a little ridiculous, but the effects definitely are not WORST CGI worthy. Plus, any deficiencies were made up by Kong himself, as well as the Spider Pit scene and the badass battle between Kong and the T-Rexes. I still think that for worse dino CGI you should look no further than Journey To The Center of the Earth 3D or A Sound of Thunder. Ugh.

Yeah the physics of this scene bugged the crap out of me! The first thing an animator is supposed to consider is weight and mass, at least the classically trained 2D animators. This is a main problem of most 3D/CG stuff. Getting the textures and lighting to look right is not enough. I think that is the draw of mocap, the physics are more real, but that still does not always look right on an animated character. ……Animators Rant over

With this entry I believe this particular list has officially jumped the shark. Personally I found that scene fun and exciting and was part of what made me feel 9 years old in the theater again. But beyond that to include that scene in this list just seems immensely spiteful and bitter. I understand that King Kong failed to live up to the monstrous expectations we all heaped onto it but to include any part of that film in a list that is supposed to be the "worst in history" feels like the Simpsons' Comic Book Guy drolling out "Worst… scene… ever…" just because he can. I know you guys like to challenge the popular perception from time to time and I suspect that's part of why this one was included but given the geek hate thrown at the film already (unfairly I feel but whatever) it's a bit of a cheap shot given the crowd you're playing to. At the time I was wrapped up in it, like most CGI it hasnt' aged as well as practical effects but worst in history? Come on. Then again if Scooby Doo level effects in films like the remake of The Haunting are going to be passed over in favor of this then maybe it's too late to appeal to reason.

Agreed. However, if you watch the Blu-Ray of the film, it seems like all the compositing and rendering got a second go-over, it works better from an FX standpoint. The idea behind the scene is unfixable, of course. It just looks better on Blu-Ray than it did in the theatre or on the original DVD.

could not agree more. This scene made my head jerk back in the theater, it was so absolutely alarming. I simply could not believe how bad it was. Jack Black looks like Fred Flinstone running in place as "dinosaurs" ran above him. So so terrible. Ya know, as "okay decent" as the movie was, it might have been this scene, coupled with the film's absolutely punishing length that prevents me from owning it on DVD. and I love love love me the Lord of the Rings films…like Kirstie Alley loves ham sandwiches.

I disagree. I liked the CGI.

Don't forget about Naomi Watts fake juggling! Or is that being saved for day 13?

My biggest beef is that Brody and Black wound need to be running at like 30mph to keep up with those things. It says something when up until reading this I'd completely forgotten this movie exisited.

You know what had really bad CGI, was Shoot em Up. It was on last night and the sky diving sequence deserves to be on this list. Seriously so bad.

I wish it was in 3d.

Yes!!! I constantly use this as my go-to example of why CGI is awful. It's as simple as one sentence: "The dinosaurs in Jurassic Park look better than the dinosaurs in King Kong." In fact, I have a longstanding theory that no movie will ever top the first Jurassic Park when it comes to FX. Think about it. JP was made right at the perfect crest in special effects. When CGI existed but wasn't solely relied upon. When that Ford Explorer was getting destroyed by a T-rex, for the most part THAT FORD EXPLORER WAS GETTING DESTROYED by a T-rex. You can't replicate that kind of tension with wet weightless looking computer generated T-rex's. Not to mention how ridiculous it looked when those fast-moving CGI creatures were being shot off Adrien Brody and friends with pinpoint accuracy from a goddamn machine gun. Great example Devin. LOL.

"It's supposed to be a visceral and thrilling and fun moment, but it's just hokey and fake and cheesy." — couldn't have said it better myself. and yeah, that whole scene looks BAD — unlike the rest of the movie.. which is odd — did they do this scene at last? was it a last minute addition? they chose to use more money in other scenes..?

There's some good character animation in this film, but MAN the compositing is for shit. Shockingly amateurish.

I can't believe the fake juggling wasn't mentioned.

It was bad, but among the 'Worst CGI in History?' Not even close. Think harder, guys.

Are you trying to imply that the actors were not really running from those dinosaurs? Poppycock!

Next thing you're going to tell me is that Jack Black is not the greatest rockgod ever!

@JMG84 – Good to know, and thanks for justifying why you like it!

I'm sure you're right, MJB. I saw the movie at its NYC premier, and the bronto scene looked even worse than the version that got the wide release a few weeks later.

Yes I saw it in the theater twice. It's weird that there's a Peter Jackson movie about giant monkeys and dinosaurs that I forget exists. There was a great movie in there somewhere, it just never came out in the editing.

Now this is a case I can get behind. CGI Kong was great, a spectacle to behold. T-Rex/Kong fight was fun. But this travesty of an action scene was an abortion. No sense of danger, no grasp of positioning, and no weight to thier running either. It's like if they flail their arms enough, it will make it seem more likely that they are running across rough terrain, and not a flat green surface. JB almost looks like he's hanging from wires and doing the Running Man!

Aren't we getting a bit of mission creep here? Shitty FX direction and comping isn't entirely the same thing as shitty CGI, and the actual CG brontos are nice work, rocking a whole "Jurassic Park meets Gertie The Dinosaur" vibe that I found quite charming, unlike the tedious po-faced reverence that Jackson slathered over the rest of the enterprise. That said, I wholly agree that the scene was utterly redundant: Jackson's desire to include at least a nod to every scene that O'Brien couldn't do the first time around is entirely responsible for the bloat that rendered this effort the most boring take on King Kong ever.

Oh, I just remembered, the CG taxis in the movie's digital New York are awful creations that aren't even on nodding acquaintance with real-world vehicle dynamics. Brontos can get away with adventures in The Uncanny Valley by dint of their unfamiliarity. Cars, even of '20s vintage, cannot.

Claymation coulda saved the day. Sadness.

you guys ae stupid. stop the dvd and analyze the scene. it's unbelievable because the situation is unbelievable, your brain doesn't accept it because it's supposed to be a 'real' situation ie no flying etc. But the actual CGI is great and the superimposition is nowhere near bad. Think about it.

Worst CGI in History? Not a chance. Maybe I'd buy "Most Disappointing CGI in History." Maybe. Nah, I wouldn't buy it, but at least I'd grant you a point or two. I actually liked this scene, and I loved this movie. I know it's popular among geeks to crap all over it, but come on!

Sigh…I knew this would be on the list, and it doesn't belong anywhere near it. Yes, the scene itself is unrealistic. Yes, the compositing of the live actors with the CG dinosaurs is dodgy. But the dinosaurs themselves look just as good as the rest of the Oscar-winning FX work in this film. The scene's failure among (some) viewers has nothing to do with the CG.

This scene's never really bothered me at all, and there's no way anyone could convince me that this film has some of the worst CGI ever, because it's simply not true. The Bronto scene is indeed hokey, poorly choreographed/animated/lit, ect… but it still doesn't belong on a Worst CGI Ever list, not by a long shot.

Youre so right! Thats why, for example, the sight of Kong Clymbing ESB works so good. Thats something our brain accepts because we see things like this every day!

First (and only)time I watched it this scene dragged me right out of the movie and I could never reinvest in it. Dreadful.

I'm not being contrary, but I do remember being absolutely stunned at how AWFUL and fake the CGI in King Kong looked when I saw it in the cinema. Kong himself was as good as anyone could hope for, but knowing the scale of the project and how much money was thrown at it, I was left scratching my head at how the rest looked so shockingly terrible. Especially the specific scene discussed here, which looked like a bunch of actors running in front of rear projection.

This was a shitty choice. Worst CGI? NO. Bad? ALRIGHT. But what it really is, is bad use of greenscreen. The actual CGI isn't bad. The way they use it IS bad.

I really think it was a sign that PJ's fussiness was reaching really problematic levels, with so many do-overs until there were only literally days to put hundreds of composite elements together a week before the premiere (a problem that was already getting bad as the LotR films continued). I liked the Bronto pile-up as it was all in good fun, but the cliff-side run and the obvious treadmill running motion were shockers. Then we get that terrible bit with the two human leads running to each other on top of the empire state building, looking like a foreshadowing of the burnt arse that is Lovely Bones' FX work.

Of all the truly god awful CG sequences that I've seen, this one has always stood out in my mind. The whole movie is bloated as hell, and there is no way any of those fuckers would've been able to survive that island for more than 5 minutes, but this was Peter Jackson's King Kong at it's most absurd.

I thought that scene was a "homage" to earlier cruddy King Kong effects it was that bad. It stands out so much because the CGI on Kong himself is so impressive. It's like they had a special team doing Kong and the interns were thrown this scene.

When I saw Chud was doing a list of the worst CGI ever, the first thing that popped into my mind was the dinosaur stampede from King Kong. It sucks. WETA is really good at making CGI models, but they can't matte for shit. That was their big weakness in the Lord of the Rings movies like when the hobbits are riding Treebeard. What really kills me, though, is all of the delusional Peter Jackson fanboys crying and whining and trying to defend this scene. Just because Peter Jackson made the Lord of the Rings doesn't mean his shit doesn't stink just like the rest of us and this scene was shit. The whole movie was shit. A three hour romance between a woman and a giant gorilla. A woman and a giant gorilla that went iceskating together. But you know what? If you like this hunk of crap, then that's fine. I don't get it at all, but that's your perogative. However, if your so delusional that you're actually going to defend the quality of the effects in this scene, then your are one sad-sack fucking loser because this scene was godawful and deserves to be on this list.

Fuck this whole movie, it was god awful.
I know everyone loves Peter Jackson these days, but this and the battle scenes in Return of the King were some of the most laughable CGI ever. I hate King Kong. One of those movies I couldn't be paid to like.

This list has jumped the shark completely. The level of CGI in King Kong is miles above Die Another Day, A Sound of Thunder, Spawn, etc. Yeah, the greenscreen compositing in this scene wasn't too good, but the CGI itself was fine. It's sad that so many geeks like to shit all over Jackson's "Kong". It's a good movie, and I've seen about 100 films with worse CGI. This list can go fuck itself.

I love all the shitty cgi apologists this list brings out.

What? Would you schmucks rather have a list of 20 DTV rip-offs and Syfy Originals? This isn't supposed to be the bottom scorers on some scientific classification of every visual effect ever according to some objective metric. It's an internet humor list. The priority is entertainment, and vengeful revisitation of disappointments. I actually enjoyed King Kong, but I still found this scene jarring in its sloppiness.

I love King Kong as much as the next guy, but the remake was good – but it was overkill. At least an hour could've been cut easily. One more thing that always worried me was: Why the monkey? There is an island with all these exotic animals, why take the fucking monkey. Open a Jurassic Park for all I care & go wild with it. But no… They have to take the monkey back. (Same thing with Jaws, another movie I love, why hunt for the shark in open sea while all the attacks took place near the island?)

why are so many people constantly like this: 'come on it's not the worst in history. this list sucks'? guys, there are diffrent ways of badon thos list. 1. just bad. 2. bad because of the fact of being where it shouldn't be. And 3. bad in context. So Given the budget of this movie and the quality of the big ape's cgi, this scene looks really terrible in context. And this contrast alone makes the scene worth of being on this list.

While I did enjoy this movie for the most part, this scene nearly killed it for me. It was just terrible and probably has something to do with why I havnt seen this since opening night. I saw it in the $5 bin at walmart a few weeks back and almost bought it. But I decided to get Two Mules For Sister Sarah instead. I do not regret that choice. Here's one for your list: The Invasion. While there isn't one good thing about the entire movie, the helicopter scene at the end is probably the most laughably bad cgi in the last 5 years.

Not only had I sort of forgotten about the movie (the $5 bin at Wal-Mart won't let me truly forget), but I'd completely forgotten about the unreal hype surrounding it before it's release. Wasn't there a multi-disc DVD set that came out BEFORE the film that had hours and hours and hours of production diary stuff? I haven't seen anything like it before or since. It was definitely trying to cash in on the somewhat unexpected popularity of the 4-disc LotR sets that had an unprecedented amount of "making of" material, but when King Kong was a relative disappointment, studios probably cut guys like Jackson (that are genuinely in love with the filmmaking process) off a bit, not allowing them to spend as much of the studio's money on this sort of stuff. While I generally like seeing all the behind-the-scenes material, that cost-cutting measure probably saved us from having to endure a years-long DVD package that would have given us a real-time look at the making of "Lovely Bones".

I think people should realize that it's not that the CG was necessarily so bad, but it's integration with the live actors was unforgivably sloppy, which is why this scene more than belongs on this list. The dude was smoking for Christ's sake. The movie dropped two letter grades instantly for dude smoking while running for his life.

They fucked up on the shadows with this one. Shadows added in post almost never look right unless they're subtle, fast or mapped to a full digital double. They should have choreographed this better, then cast shadows on the set with foam stand-ins or something. It would have bumped up the realism by 200%.

If everyone has to argue about this choice, it is clearly not bad enough to make this list.

Love the apologists in here, as if this was even debatable. The scene looks horrible, period. Fact. If you think that looks at all real you're an imbecile. I don't give a shit if you like the movie or not, that scene looks completely unfinished and therefore deserves to be on the list. How is it possible that people on CHUD are even dumber than they are in the talkbacks of AICN?

I never forgot that Peter didn't include that long shot from the original when Kong fell and hit the building again halfway down. That definitely should have been recreated.

And yes, this scene took me right out of the movie.

Eff you haters! By this time you should have gotten that the point isn't really the "Worst CGI" in an of itself, but a combination of the worst uses of application, and shoddy work that appears in a movie that otherwise has good SFX. A list like that by design has to include mostly mainstream flicks. I mean, if you really had a list of the worst offenders of bad CGI, then it would be filled with stuff like "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus", and what fun would that be? Geez!

You know the really sad part? Jackson actually filmed a much better introductory dinosaur scene with a triceratops-like creature, but cut it out in favor of this.

This scene is nowhere near as terrible as the "giant insects in the ravine" scene. THAT was some of the worst CGI in history.

Terrible scene in a terrible, pointless movie. Jackson doing this to the beloved original is akin to Lucas's prequels. Destroying the thing that you love. From the pointless Jamie Bell roll, the bloated length, the embarrassing 'natives' all the way to the 'why isn't this as good as the first one' finale, this is quite simply a bad film.

I don't think I'll ever stop laughing at the guy commenting on that link above of some little kids video (named jesusfreak929) on youtube, saying he will fuck Devin up at a convention. Then he starts yelling about rhubarb and how Devin wronged his family. Dude might be taking the internet a bit seriously.

You're right Devin. Peter Jackson failed miserably in his attempt to "trump" the FX of the 1933 original. Those 1933 FX don't look the least bit dated today. In fact, I'm certain that dinosaurs actually looked rubbery and herky-jerky when they walked the earth 65 million years ago. Jackson could avoid such disastrous mistakes if only he'd consult you beforehand.

To all the idiots here saying this is actually good CGI and that this list has jumped the shark:

Go fcuck yourselves and get your brain examined. The CGI in this scene, and in the entire King Kong 2005 movie is atrocious, fcking terrible stuff.

Didn't Brain Singer direct the dinosaur scene?