Yeah, 3D and all computer imaging is ruining Hollywood motion pictures. Did Birth of a Nation or Trip to the Moon need CGI? No, it didn't even need sound or COLOR!!! We should get back to the good old days of making movies and stop using all this technology. In fact we shouldn't even use cameras. They ruin the experience of performance and the business of acting. Instead of paying artists to work seven days a week laboring on effects they should be hiring more actors to perform Avatar live in each city. Those computer people are only trying to trick you out of your money while they sit for days/months in their fancy Aeron wheel-chairs pretending that they do it for the enjoyment of others. If they think its so great they should do it for free.
I know a lot of producers would agree with me about the last part. 

(end of sarcasm)

Of course the illusion "wears off". It has to disappear for the movie to work. You don't sit there aware of watching 24 still photographs flash by each second. If you did you would never get involved with the story. 

Do be clear I'm not trying to elevate Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Pancakes as high art. But I am surprised to hear such a negative outlook on the biz inside a forum for computer graphics.