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Bad CG is instantly dated, rips you out of the movie (LOOK, BAD CG!), and is just as poor as '50's sci-fi movies where you can see the wires.
Yeah, I can't wait to see how my grandchildren will someday react when they see some of the movies from today, especially Star Wars. It will probably be something simular to how I used to laugh at the old wires on ships. Even look at movies like the Spawn, if you watch that movie today the CG looks horrible! The '97 SEs were starting to get that way already, I am sure that is why Lucas decided to up date them. So what then? Update your films every couple of years before there CG expires? Look at the old SW trilogy, to me even today it looks fantastic. If you look you might find a few evidences of outdated techniques, but really I think they still look great. Because a model is a real objects, and it will always be a real object. But CG is completley intangible, and as new CG comes out, old CG is going to look awful.