I'm right there with you CO. Even if i prefer models & puppets, cg CAN do amazing things. It's just so often over used & becomes the "easy way out" for filmmakers. Regardless of how hard it might be for the artist, it's the easy thing to do for the filmmaker. Case in point: the monkeys in KOTCS. They so could have done that scene with real monkeys. but it would've been challenging & time consuming so they took the easy way out & went digital. & it was crap.

I think a major problem with cgi is that the animators & filmmakers have TOO much control. It's those "happy accidents" that can really make something work and those just don't happen anymore with CGI.