I think it's interesting that Gattaca had to use actual locations rather than go all CGI to "save" money. It illustrates how the cost of CGI has come down since 1997 that it is now cheaper to create the locations than actually shoot them.

Although it seems to me that the creators of Sky Captain did not even attempt to fool us into thinking the environment was real, like the Matrix was able to do. It was so cartoonish that I can only assume that was the intent. And what a cool cartoon it was.

I'll be sitting down to watch the Star Wars DVDs tomorrow night, and I look forward to re-visiting the first movie that completely fooled me (OK..so I was 9..) visually. I still remember the feeling of total amazement when I found out about the glass mattes they used to simulate many of the backgrounds, which to me looked completely like they had been really there.

Hmmmm not very on topic...maybe I'll PM the mod to move this sucker to the correct forum?