Well, which part of my post? It looks fake... or its real on location?
I suppose it can be both... but if it doesn't feel real, then to me its not 'there'.
Like the fight inside the helicopter in MI6 looked totally fake to me, so it wasn't enjoyable. Does the fight inside the train in MI7 look fake like that too? I hope not.
I guess I didn't make my point. In the 50's, most movies were made on studio stages, even ones supposedly outside, and it all looked fake. You all know what it looked like, basically all the TV shows we grew up with did the same thing.
But in the 60's, cameras got lighter and more transportable and being "on location" was a huge draw, actually part of the trailers. After years of having actors against a "blue-screen" for outdoor shots, having Cary Grant actually in Paris was new and hip... and brought a new realism... that continued into the French New Wave.
I feel like there is this interesting parallel between that time period of studio control and out current time period of studio control -- CGI is the new "studio stage". And it feels phony.