Twitter strag is defending the state of CGI these days 
No, CGI was always like this, you only remember the good movies 
Everyone talks about how CGI was "so much better back then" while mainly using only one example.
— Matthew Donald (@MatthewDonald64) October 30, 2024
No, CGI wasn't better back then. Davy Jones was just exceptionally good. You just don't remember all the crap that got released back then too. https://t.co/ZWXoQJRUGz
MODOK is actually very technically impressive, like the skin textures and metal arms and everything. It's the design itself people found iffy. Watch Corrider Crew's video on it.
— Matthew Donald (@MatthewDonald64) October 31, 2024
Actually, Marvel movies are peak CGI you pleb 
And of course he starts grifting as soon as he gets a shred of attention 
Wow, this blew up. Uhhhh, check out my books and podcasts? They have dinosaurs and lasers and steampunk alt histories and such. You'll probably like them a bit. https://t.co/6sywKpgt7q
— Matthew Donald (@MatthewDonald64) October 31, 2024
Wowzers! 
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CGI almost certainly has gotten a lot better over the last 20 years.
The difference is that back then, because it was obviously flawed, directors tried to shoot around it and mixed it in with practical effects.
Modern studio directors are hacks and lazy, as are the rest involved in movie production, and CGI has become normalised as being ubiquitous and out in the open.
So they dont even try to hide any part of it or mixing it with practical effects, and with how ubiquitous in movies it is theres also much more chance for bad effects to slip through.
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for older pics, you werent sure if it was an effect or a stuntman. nowadays you cent percent know even the muzzle flashes are cgi
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Common sense
you have little real-life environment visible to contrast against the CGI, especially not humans, and you have constant motion and movement of both the effect and the camera so you dont have time to focus on any single aspect of it long enough to notice the imperfections.
Its also combined with a practical prop in the beginning which is made just as unrealistically shiny as the effect to trick your mind.
Im definitely not arguing that it's worse than disneyslop effects, either. They can take a lot more time on these scenes because they dont have to animate 90% of the entire movie.
I cant believe I'm actually praising the quality of bayslop tbqh
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