Now that you have explained what you said more fully, I have to say I totally agree with you. I find it exasperating when movie makers have the capability to produce realistic scenes but then go completely OTT and ruin it. Several movies come to mind, such as the underground scenes in The Hobbit and Prince Of Persia being two of the worst I can think of.

When I said "tell me where the ruins of the hyper-realistic Metropolis can be found in the real world as I would love to go and shoot some snaps among the ruins with my point and shoot camera" I was referring to the Movie "Man of Steel" where Metropolis gets trashed, and the fact that you couldn't possibly go out and film that, you can only do it with realistic CG.

I think we are actually on the same page!