RE: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (film): This just doesn't appeal to me, but will to others
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Without doubt the CGI in this movie is really good, but the story is kind of underwhelming. I think the original film from 1968 is a remarkable classic, especially for how they used the practical effects.
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Now here is a person that gets me. Abso-friggin-lutely. I have a tremendous amount of respect for the original films because if you said "computer" to almost anyone on the set back then they wouldn't even know what you were talking about. The practical effects must have taken ages and tons of ingenuity, not to mention the fact that they would have had to do a ton of reshooting because they couldn't just touch up mistakes in editing in the late 60's. I feel that technology has made a lot of studios lazy and it shows.
I hate to sound like a boomer, but when a film is "good" because of their CGI budget and almost exclusively because of that, I tend to shy away from it rather rapidly. It's a like a video game with fantastic graphics that isn't really fun to play in my mind.
I also think the same, nowadays movie makers use CGI for every single visual effect and in the majority of cases the results look so fake or uncanny. I think that not all must be done with CGI because with practical effects marvelous things could be done, just see how amazing the Dune movies look because they were filmed in real locations and not in a set with a green screen.
I didn't know that about Dune. I would be willing to bet that there was still a lot of green screen going on but that is cool to know that they used real locations as well.