Okay, I'm confused. Was that in reply to my post? 'Cause i was asking a genuine question. I honestly don't know why the decision was reached to shoot the Hobbit in that way. Also, I didn't really think that anyone was saying that cgi is 'The Devil'. I was under the impression we all thought it was a tool. You know, like lighting, models and make up. You use it when you have to. Babylon 5, in fact, is an excellent example of this. As are most movies that David Fincher makes. The Hobbit movies are a prestige product, yet in their home versions looks cheap and nasty. This is not the only film i can point to this year that is like that. Step forward... well, step forward this years summer season. And any horror film released over the past five years. It's easy to pick specifically on a film like the Hobbit, when we all expected so much from it, but that's distracting from the fact that most Hollywood 'Prestige' pictures just look a bit cheap compared to a few years ago. CGI is not the problem. Apparently, if you watch the video, the studios are the problem, specifically the lead times that they are currently giving to these productions that are hampering the effects artists and not allowing them to deliver the quality that they want to deliver. Nobody cares about the medium used. Only that it looks good.

JEDIT I was replying to two posts up.