Quote - Ratings to me, never really meant "better" Try comparing a lot of the terrible animations to how it use to be for my generation and the animation today loses. The 1990s seen a major wave of hardcore animation, granted CGI and 3D animation is still very rare because not too many people use it. Imagine if a lot more movies were using the Technology the studio that worked on the first two CGI Resident Evil films, or the makers of the Final Fantasy Advent Children film. Now Poser can never compete with that, Octane maybe but Poser is only good for one thing and that's setting up figures. And even then its buggy sometimes, a real memory eater too which causes major slow down if you have at least 4 or more figures in a scene.  One time I tried to render in poser 7 and it nearly took me two days to get it to finish. Plus animations for Poser in general look bad. If your going to roll with animating I suggest getting some Softimage XSI skill or 3D Studio Max, maybe Maya which is pretty much the same as Softimage XSI. 

You really should watch the videos I linked to.