regarding "...more money for CGI",
I have to imagine all of you have seen worse. Just think about the vintage Japanese monster movies like Godzilla and Mothra, and the like. While the SFX were passable in the CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON set of movies, wasn't there a very popular puppet character that needed to "phone home" in the movie E.T.? And you can certainly add the various "stop-action" Harryhausen movies like the SINBAD series and even the original KING KONG.
Not to belittle the TOTAL RECALL movies, both original and reboot starring Beckinsale and Biel, but the original had decent sets and pretty good SFX, but much of what was on screen in the reboot version was all CGI, and it (IMHO) actually detracted from the movie.
Just sayin'
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