About CGI; CGI is pretty neat. It allows the telling of fantastic stories that couldn't be told as well in regular live action, for example Avatar. But when I watch CGI, I think to myself I'm watching a cartoon. It might be a good story, but it doesn't have the impact on me like an old fashioned live action epic film like Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Spartacus, Ben Hur, etc. I guess I'm just more impressed with real spectacle, rather than computer generated spectacle even though both are a similar form of trickery.