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Fury Road looked at three decades of computers, screamed, "WITNESS!" and burned down five oil fields instead. They only used computers for backgrounds and fiddly bits. Because computers are great at what they can do, but until we invent holodecks they can't replace real effects. Which is why the new Thunderbirds series plays it perfectly. CGI characters normally suffer from falling face-first into the uncanny valley, but the original Thunderbirds were puppets. Their new forms are everything the originals could have hoped for.

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Even though the new show is only possible because of CGI, they know when not to use CGI. The ships and launch sequences are real, honest-to-glorious models. Just like the original and master-crafted by the same WETA workshop behind the insanely detailed armor in Lord Of The Rings.

The new Star Trek finally had the effects technology to actually show the Enterprise doing something. Past movies just couldn't afford it. That's why they mostly settled for the slowest-motion sequence possible: extended shots of the Enterprise parked in a space dock. That wasn't a vision of the future; that was a simulation of being space traffic wardens checking to see if the Enterprise was illegally parked so that we could issue a Star Ticket to prevent Star Trekking. Into Darkness had the Enterprise versus its evil twin in a final battle for the fate of the Earth. And they both sat motionless while blowing chunks out of each other. First the Enterprise was crippled, then the Vengeance was forced to reboot. Instead of a space battle, we got to sit and watch the ships turning each other off.