Watch: 5 Strange Cases of Completely Unnecessary CGI in Film

Most movie fans know that CG isn't the worst thing to happen to modern filmmaking: it's simply a tool that can be used responsibly or irresponsibly depending on who's wielding it. (Check out this awesome video essay for more on this topic.) It's obvious when directors create entire worlds purely out of pixels, but a good amount of the computer generated imagery we see isn't immediately apparent to the naked eye.

But sometimes, filmmakers will use it for things that seem completely incomprehensible. Dorkly is here to share five instances in which CG was used for seemingly no good reason, and while I'm sure there were extenuating circumstances that we don't know about that happened in the heat of the moment on set to make these happen, some of these cases have no excuse (I'm looking at you, John Wick). Watch for yourselves and see what I mean:

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