What scenes in famous movies do people think are CGI but in reality, they aren't?

1. In Tron: Legacy most characters were given glowing blue color contact lenses to make their eyes pop when they were in the grid. Olivia Wilde didn't need them.
   — PhreedomPhighter


2. In LotR Fellowship, when Aragorn and Lurtz are fighting, Aragorn stabs him with his knife, Lurtz then pulls it out and throws it straight at Aragorn, who deflects it with his sword. The throw was 100% real, the actor playing Lurtz was supposed to throw it wide but messed up and it went straight at Viggo. Here's the scene https://youtu.be/L8ec3SRTN8U
   — Herogamer555


3. You fuckers need to start posting links to the actual scenes.
   — TobyMcwhorter






4. I'd like to add one myself, if i'm not wrong, the scene in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' where Rey is eating next to the broken AT-AT, she prepares some ['instant-bread'](https://gfycat.com/ExcitableSandyIndianpalmsquirrel) well, that looks like CGI, but in reality it is a practical effect that took months to finally get working, all for a 6 second clip, I think it was totally worth it.
   — StoneEagleCopy


5. [The hallway fight in Inception was done on a gimbal, for reals.](https://media.giphy.com/media/l46Cwaqvq2Sfk26NW/giphy.gif)
   — neocommenter


6. Ripley's [behind the back over the head basketball throw](https://youtu.be/FF44YvDVP8Y) from Alien Resurrection. Sigourney Weaver actually made the shot.
   — thatJainaGirl






7. Pretty much the entirety of Mad Max: Fury Road. Probably not that obscure, but I still imagine a good portion of viewers dont realize how many practical effects and real stunts were used in that film.
   — eclipsesix


8. That scene in The Dark Knight when the semi truck get flipped nose over tail was a practical effect
   — porkchop1983


9. The dinosaur scenes from Jurassic Park. They used real dinosaurs for them. They even had a dinosaur supervisor named Phil Tippett to make sure they were taken care of.
   — Tree343






10. The scene in Terminator 2 where the t-1000 mimics Sarah Connor, we have 2 Sarah Connors on screen on at the same time, no camera tricks or special effects, they just git Linda Hamiltons (Sarah Connor) twin sister to do the part.
    — Tehgumchum


11. A lot of people might already know this, but I think it was one of the newer mission impossible movies where Tom Cruise was hanging outside of a giant plane. He really did that. They tied him to the side of this massive cargo plane and took off knowing that if anything in the air that hit him could have very likely killed him
    — seuche23


12. The "repair" scenes in Christine. My 16 yr old stepson swears that's how it had to be done lmao
    — JayIsMyMaster






13. Not CGI but [the launch scene in Apollo 13 shows the flames retreating for a second](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-JdqHxqkHA&t=4m50s) and it looks like they just reversed the shot, when actually that's how the explosion for a Saturn V rocket behaves.
    — peargarden


14. Tron didn't win an oscar because it used too many special effects. It was painted by hand, frame by frame.
    — TreKopperTe


15. The last batman movie where bane hijacks that plane. They actually used a real fuselage and suspended it from a helicopter
    — Batwyane