I guess It really depends on where you look. And as amazing as it looks it'll never look as good as practicality. Green Lantern learned that the hard way. And as I've said already. The Chitauri look like crap already and will look even worse in a few years. The only cgi I've ever seen that holds up really well is in the first Jurrasic Park.

By enhancements I mean stuff like in Watchmen for example, Rorschach's mask was an actual balaclava with eye holes and they added the inkblot effect later which completed the look and made for a better finished product as opposed to using cgi on entire head. Wearing an actual mask helped Jackie Earl Haley emote which made for a better performance. Same with Dr. Manhattan. They used motion capture and attached lights to the motion capture suit and he looked all the better for it as opposed to how it would probably look with cgi doing all the work.

CGI in Jurrassic world doesnt look that good.
IMO CGI should only do things practical effects and models cant do or cant do well.

Star wars VII looked mostly brilliant. it cleverly mixes and overlaps between the two even sometimes in the same shot.

It is possible to have CGI all over and have it look allright if not awesome, but that is rarely the case.

@Prince-Ali.
Yeah the prequels look like a cartoon, I like some of the CGI scenes, because they are so rich and sprawling, but they dont look good they look off, like cartoons and sometimes just really terrible like a part of a room being a flat image being streched as the camera pans or swaps angle.

The cgi does look great in both. I agree. Most of the backgrounds were cgi and I never even noticed. I didn't mean both movies as a whole looked bad. Or bad enough to get me out of the experience either. But certain things are beginning too age. During the final fight in MoS is were the cgi gets a bit shoddy. A tiny itty bitty bit. Which doesn't really bug me but it stands out since the cgi in the rest of the movie was amazing. You get segments where it is very obviously a cgi Cavill or Shannon. As for the Avengers, like I said the Chitauri look awful already. They look and "move" (if that makes sense) in a very cgi. Especially when making them fight actual actors. It's a giant segment in a movie where using more practical effects would have gone a long way. Look at Hulk. He walks and breaths as if he's actual there! That's good cgi to compare them to.

As great as it looks I still have a strong dislike for CGI, it always feels cheap and all the effects have the same fake feeling to it. Maybe it's because my favourite films as a kid was Alien and Jurassic Park. The chestburster scene and the scene with the animatronic T-Rex head and the prowling velociraptors still wow me today.

Read my reply to thekhurg up there! ^^^