Oh I understand but if you are going to throw people under the bus for using computers then you should first have to get rid of all computers in your own life first. How come you don't use telegrams,don't you know some people find them more personal then internet posts?
How come you are allowed to use computers to get your work done but other people are not?
Oh and you do know some of the new special effects techniques used in the original trilogy displaced old techniques that had been used for decades before the 70s right? One of those was computer control of cameras so that passes over models could be duplicated and done faster. The fact is all the great film makers used the most advanced techniques they had at the time and this techno fear response is just a base human reaction to anything new. If we were back in the 1880s you all would be calling for light bulbs to be banned.
I don't know about you but I didn't join this site because I hate CGI and the people who worked in the field and if I knew that was required then i would not have joined. I know people who work in the field and they are not lazy or trying to destroy film making,they work hard to produce good work and most of the time in a modern film I can't tell what is CGI and what is real so I would say they do a good job.
Also CGI has freed film makers from a lot of bonds,now even low budget productions can have decent looking special effects. Back in the day a movie like Star Trek the Motion picture nearly killed the franchise because the number of effects shots made it cost an insane amount of money,these days you can do a movie on it's scale for a fraction of the cost when you adjust for inflation. For instance a move like District 9 that couldn't get the backing of a major studio was still able to be made because it could be brought in for around $30. In the old days a movie with a script like that would not have been made without the backing of a studio because no one else would have the money for the special effects. Now that isn't much of a problem any more. Heck now a days internet videos that are worked on by one guy like Linkara have special effects that are on par with the original Star Trek 40 years ago and given that that show was one of the most expensive on Tv at the time it aired I would say that is pretty amazing and it is a good thing.
The fact is CGI and computers have down us all a ton of good and there are a lot of hard working people who work in the field who don't get much respect and in some cases are treated like the scum of the earth just because they are working on something new and I don't like that. I think people should get credit for doing hard work. Even if you don't like the 48 fps isn't there something to be said for the fact that Jackson didn't just sit around and cash and easy paycheck by doing the exact same thing he did on The lord of the rings? Shouldn't he get some credit for having the guts to try something new even if it doesn't work out. I think to truly move forward you have to dare to be stupid,in other works you have to be willing to look like a fool if things don't work out and not let that stop you from trying new things. I would rather see a film where someone tries and fails to do something new then see one where they just do the same old safe thing.
I don't have problem with CGI even in the specials editions. my only problem is that the originals are not around any more. If Lucas would release them the same way the original effects were preserved on Star trek i would have no problem what so ever with the SEs. I have no problem with CGI in any form or the people who work on it. This website has never been about hatred of CGI for me,it has been about preserving the original cuts of the films on home video. If the original cuts had CG that was later replaced with model shots I would still be upset as a film fan.
Sorry I just don't have a deep seated hatred of CGI and I don't think using it makes anyone a bad film maker.
Oh and the Lord of the Rings used a lot of CGi,in fact is was seeing a demo of CGI tech that had two armies fighting that convinced Jackson that the time had come to make The Lord of the Rings into films. Oh and most of the goblins in the close shots were real actors it's just the heads that were added in post. Jackson didn't turn his back anything he just moved with the times the way every film maker always has.