YOU may've heard about this thing called ''dead-eye''. It's what happens in computer-animated movies when they try to make humans look lifelike, but it's impossible to capture the depth and subtlety of a human eye so the characters just end up looking like inexpressive zombies - if the eyes are the windows to the soul, then a computer-animated eye is a window coated by the Tint Professor in Premium Elite Black.

Apparently Dead-Eye Syndrome makes audiences feel uneasy and creeped-out, which is why lots of super-lifelike computer-animated movies have flopped at the box office.

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Polar Express was meant to be a charming Christmas family-film about a bunch of adorable kiddies on a train trip to visit Santa, but the computer-animated kiddies just looked like deranged Children of the Corn who wanted to tie Santa to a cross with barbed wire then pluck out his eyes and stuff the sockets with corn husks.

Beowulf was meant to be an epic retelling of the famous poem, but adult movie-goers were turned off by the animated characters with their vacant dead-eyes, and even teenage-boy movie-goers were turned off by an animated Angelina Jolie with her naked dead-boobs.