So much of this is just how _much_ work had to be done to get practical effects to work, and how practical and CGI are often good for different things. For an i

So much of this is just how _much_ work had to be done to get practical effects to work, and how practical and CGI are often good for different things. For an insane example of this checkout this video of how they did the ship landing in the original Dune movie (of which step 1 was "rent a stadium"). https://youtu.be/OHPkdMGI6D4?t=568 https://youtu.be/OHPkdMGI6D4?t=568 Also, I think there's a very selective bias against CGI where when it looks _real_ we just assume it's real and don't notice so we're only criticizing the portion where it failed to live up to reality.