I find that CGI is often bearable when it's used on real characters or real places, but when things get too far off the beaten track they trend towards cartoons. I want Avatar to be good, but I don't really want to watch a CGI heavy Dances With Wolves.
Bugsy has it right. Use the computers to augment suited/anamatronics/whatever, but pure CGI isn't there yet, and CGI landscapes rarely wow me outside of a few video games.
And I'm not anti-CGI, I'm just anti some of the shortcuts that people take with it and expect the suspension of disbelief to remain. Whether in the theaters or on DVD I'll watch this movie, but each preview I've seen has brought my excitement level down a significant notch.
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