My favorites ended shortly after the Matrix. I mean before Matrix, movies used computer graphics but only on the minimum. Modern movies put heavy emphasis on computers. It's "cheaper" and more "productive" in the sense that you don't actually have to have a real object - you can move around a blue screen, and later in edit, they can add things to it.
Let me give you an example,
Terminator 1 and 2 were my favorite movies of all time. Now, let's look at how they made it: puppets, computers, and actors. In all cases throughout the movie, actors reacted to other actors. Now look at Terminator 3, it's mostly computer animated. The fight scenes are no longer fun... just ridiculous. The robots appear like they were drawn on paper. And overall, the movie was more about computers skills than acting skills.
The same can be said for other movies as well. Like Star Wars. The original had puppets, and some cool space fights. The end of Star Wars was most memorable to me because of the radio talks, the shooting, etc. In Ep3, I laughed at the end with Darth Vader in the molten hot lava. Also, in Ep2 when Yoda did that fight made me laugh really, really hard because it looks so freaking ridiculous.
Other examples include Braveheart. That movie was awesome! It had people running around actually fighting each other. I got pumped up with his speech on the horse. The music got me pumped up and in my church, they frequently refer to the movie's line of "Freedom." It had meaning, and power when they played the bagpipes. Now, you will never get a movie like that. Lord of the Rings, for example, is just all computer drawn and nothing looks remotely real. Just the "wow" factor and that's it.
And war movies are equally ridiculous. Movies like Platoon made me have nightmares for weeks on that part where they raided the village. Also the fights were good. They were fighting, some people died, and that's that. In modern movie, you see people blown up to piece, bullets shooting everywhere, people shouting and stuff, and just flat out ridiculous and trying to be gross. That movie We Were Soldier made me laugh really hard also. Especially that part where that dude got that incendiary grenade in the face. I mean it looked ridiculous. I mean yes, people die in war, but yet, in war you don't sit there staring at it and making it appear all dramatic like. Music don't play when you're in the heat of battles, and hero don't go running around chopping off arms and shooting people causing their heads to explode.