[Para-Ord.45]

yup

cgi is well, cgi. TRON had real actors on blue screen which gave it an air of believability.

cgi just looks, well, fake.

[Richard Kimball]

For me, it's not so much the believability as it is the total absence of plot in exchange for special effects. I think the burnout moment for me was the scene in King Kong where he's fighting the T-Rex. For starters, I already know how King Kong turns out. Everyone does. So you know both King Kong and the chick will survive against the dinosaurs before you even start. With the ending figured out, there are all these impressive cinematic shenanigans that would be impossible even if dinosaurs and giant gorillas really were scooting around on a tropical island, and it's like a road runner cartoon, except not as funny.

The next thing you know, they'll have someone survive a nuclear explosion by hiding in a refrigerator.

[discostu]

They weren’t on a blue screen, they were on a black set, which then got various types of animation added. It’s a stupid movie, but I like it.