CGI has killed my sense of awe 20 or 30 years ago. How can I find special effects in movies awe inspiring when I know it's all done with a computer? It used t

CGI has killed my sense of awe 20 or 30 years ago. How can I find special effects in movies awe inspiring when I know it's all done with a computer? It used to me that I watched Godzilla smash a building and was awestruck because each and every tile on the roof of the buildings was carefully placed by hand, the brick walls crumbling like real brick walls showed me how much work and care went into making just a few seconds of footage. But now I can watch monsters smash entire cities and it bores me to tears. I know the buildings are copy pasted, the details are just tiled textures. It still took somebody some time to design and arrange but I know it's relatively cheap because being cheap is the whole point of doing it this way and they try to compensate by doing more of it on a wider scale, which lacks intimacy. Because even the camera itself is fake they can fly the camera around rapidly to make sure I never get a good look at any of the details, to hide the deficiency of the models, to make sure I don't notice the cut and paste jobs. Then I watch a war movie. All the shots of the huge armies are from very far away so the men are indistinct ants. Close up shots only show me a few men at a time, it's all calculated to hide the fact that they didn't actually have thousands of men on the field and how can I be amazed when I know this? But if I watch Waterloo, 1970, I am genuinely amazed because I can clearly see thousands of men in detail. They really did have an army on the field and it's awe inspiring in a way that a movie with copy-pasted composite armies never can be.