CatBus said:
Modern audiences expect their visual effects to be flawless. Past audiences merely expected visual effects to be convincing. We used to see reflections, boom mikes, obvious matte paintings, and even occasionally wires and that was perfectly acceptable to most people at the time.
It's still perfectly acceptable now.
People didn't pass-up Prometheus because of this blunder: http://faildesk.net/2012/06/12/prometheus-runs-on-windows-7/
They passed-up Prometheus because it's a bad movie.
Nearly everyone I know only cares about the story. The special effects, colortiming, and other minutia aren't important to them. These things are important to us, but I believe we're the minority.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that my 13-year-old sister wouldn't pass-up a movie because of bad press about visible matte outlines or something.