CG in movies.. well, I think most people have summed it up fairly well, no matter how good your graphics are it won't save a movie from a bad storyline, and frankly Hollywood is chock full of bad storylines.

Look at some of the movies mentioned - lets start with Golden Compass.  The story simply doesn't appeal to the vast majority of people because of it's atheistic undertones, and while that might be all the rage in Hollywood, they simply haven't figured out that the majority of the population of the US (and most other countries, for that matter) are religious in some shape or form.

Another movie mentioned was the Davinci Code - ok, have to put a disclaimer in on this one, as a fairly devout Catholic I wasn't at all impressed with the book on which it was based.  From a "historical" perspective the story is nonsensical at best.  The "priory of psion", for example, was a based completely on a hoax.  These facts were readily available when Dan Brown wrote the book, and his slipshod research and claims that this was "historical fact mixed with fiction" were totally off base.  This was historical fiction mixed with more fiction.

But I decided to peruse the movie anyway, not really certain why,  maybe just to see how offensive it could be in comparision with the book.  Sad thing was the movie was so terribly boring I really couldn't even work up the energy to be offended by all their backhanded slaps at my chosen faith.  

But so many big Hollywood "blockbusters" it seems are like this nowadays.  Plot holes you could drive a fleet of semi trucks through, poorly thought out storylines and of course the terrible "hint at a sequel" endings.  Honestly the realism of CG graphics is the very least of their worries at this point.

When you look at a movie like Beowulf,  your probably not going to see a huge box office draw regardless of how well done the graphics might be, it's just not a story that most people are terribly familiar with or drawn too and as such the box office for the movie isn't going to be much regardless of the quality of the film.

Nope, I think Hollywood really needs to start working on some new material - and writing stories and characters that most people can care about to begin with, instead of hashing and rehasing the same old overdone plotlines and expecting to be able to cover up their lack of story with massive amounts of special effects or computer graphics.

Just my 2 cents worth.