CGI special effects or practical special effect.

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Originally Posted by Bluyoda

Your opinion is 3000% subjective. You don't even attempt to be objective about it.
All techniques can yield good results. It all depends on how you use them.
Nuff said.

well, yeah, of course all opinions are subjective but I just mentioned movies that have cgi overkill used in negative way (Star Wars prequel video games, The Mummy) and ones that don't (Iron Man, Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings). Listing examples of both the bad and good sides of CGI sounds pretty objective to me. In your eyes, all that Star Wars prequel stuff looks good in your eyes. But to me, it looks like muck that doesn't merge well together - two mediums that don't merge nicely together. If the Star Wars prequels were totally CGI then I would have appreciated them more, but the real actors do not merge well into those cartoons. I'm totally open to CGI as long as it blends together nicely with the real elements. Right now, I'm watching Wrath of the Titans on cable and I can't believe how disconnected the CGI characters are with the real characters and surroundings.