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phil, you have no idea how much cgi was used. Peter Jackson went overboard on a fair few occasions. It was well done is all.

No, that's what I mean; it looked right, I never sat there and thought "how fake is that" whereas in Pearl Harbour I just thought WTF?!

The BoB film is a classic. IMO for it to look right, it would have to be completely redone. I BoB film, IMO, is desperately in need in the war department. PoC is good, but that is not a film and again it could do with some CGI.

But now take a Dark Blue World. CGI was used effectively in that and it was not overdone. However, a lot of the combat came from the BoB film as did a lot of the combat in PoC. The fact of the matter is, I don't like it when film-makers use CGI because they CBA to go out there and make something themselves. If you watch Alien, the ALien in the first film is a lot scarier (it's not even scary though) than that in the third film. For me, if I can tell that something is CGI because it looks fake than the immersion in the film has gone downhill. I didn't have that in LotR and I certainly hope that won't be the same whenever FIrst Light comes out or when PJ's Dambusters comes out.