Man, I keep seeing film studios do this to the point where I'm just about done going to movies unless there's some special discount, and I used to work at a theater. How hard is it to realize that good CGI does not make a good film?

There's a secret to storytelling, and it's that you tell a story. We always talk about "show, don't tell" in writing classes, but the reason for that is because people tend to over-simplify and skip the really important bits when they're talking.

If your story isn't up to the same level eye candy, you may as well release a desktop wallpaper. It needs to have some actual action. Tension, drama, action! I think of Blade Runner as an example of a film that does this well despite seeming not to at first; it's slow, but it's slow to stress impotence and the magnitude of events around the protagonist.

You can go fast or go slow, but if you don't deliver a story you aren't going to have anything once you're done.