theprequelsrule said:

Jabba looked great in ROTJ in 1983, in 2003, and will still look great in 2033. Gollum will be considered a joke in 2033. THIS IS WHY CGI IS BAD FOR FILMS UNTIL THEY HAVE 100% PHOTO-REALISTIC TECHNOLOGY. Filmmakers stop using FX in the proper manner; as slight-of-hand (as another poster put it), and instead put it front and centre where we can see how fake it looks.

I agree. I prefer classic films, where the FX are subtle and don't draw attention to themselves, like King King (1933), The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958), or Pete's Dragon (1977).

If you haven't seen them, go rent Hellboy 2 or Pan's Labrynth. Take a look at how far men-in-costumes and puppetry FX has advanced, and compare it to Jabba or the mutant from This Island Earth (1955) and you might reevalute how flawlessly those effects have aged just because they're physically real.