Chewy72 said:

The problem is that CGI just looks fake in the movies today, for me IMO. I agree that stop motion models is very time consuming, and probably more costly, but that is the reason the OOT movies hold up so well years later, is they still look real. I look at the golden years for action/scifi movies of the late 70's/early 80's and these movies just hold up so much better then most movies today. Plus because of the limited technology, the director was forced to focus on a good, interesting story, and good character development, which is pretty much gone from the summer blockbuster today, as they are mostly mindless CGI-fest movies with zero story and ridicolous one dimensional characters.

Pardon a small point of clarification. I admire the stop-motion work on the OT, but also want to give some love to the excellent use of puppets (Rancor, space worm, Wampa, Yoda, Jabba). That would also be CGI today, much to the detriment of the films IMHO.

Not that I disagree with you, it's just that for some reason, puppets get no love.