CGI and Ben Hur

Did you hear?
They are making a Ben Hur remake.

Why... yes... They are making a Ben Hur Remake...

I've seen the Ben Hur film, total of 4 or 5 times. I wouldn't say that it is my favorite film... but it is a good one to enjoy....
IF YOU WANT TO SPEND 3 HOURS SITTING ON A COUCH DOING NOTHING BUT WATCHING TV....


Anyway. As I was reading the info of this new remake (link here) I couldn't help but see that the director of the movie "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer" is the one that will take such a project.
Now, I didn't HATE ALVS... I was amused at it several times... but the one thing that was very present in it was the CGI. (Computer Generated Image). So much CGI was in this film, that one could call it a CGLAM (Computer Generated Live Action Movie)...

Anyway...
My big question for this would be....
Should this new Ben Hur movie have CGI?

Let's look at some history of this.
Well, Ben Hur was one of the few films that can be considered an "Epic Film". The story is nothing special... but what made it epic was the size of production that went to it. Millions of dollars went into building sets, training animals, making props and hiring people to do even the most useless things. Just look at this shot from the movie

Doesn't that just look grand? Magnificent? Splendorous? and (Let me check the thesaurus real quick here) Monumental?
There is a greater scheme in all of this that sets the audience in a place bigger than themselves.
All of this is possible to be made again, many people would argue then, that the movie should not include CGI. It should be another grand movie of epic proportions.
But then again... there is CGI... UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES...
CGI brought to reality so many things in the last few years... It gave us the idea that a man could actually crawl up walls.

Or this 

That also looks so grand and magnificent... 

Well, I think it depends on the use of the CGI... If the CGI helps the illusion of reality being made... then I would say "GO FOR IT"... but, if the CGI is used as a cheap way to film the entire thing, and the illusion of reality is broken by making EVERYTHING CGI (Looking at you Lucas), then I would say no to it.

I guess it depends on what CGI can do.... 

We know that it will continue to bring new ideas and new concepts to the big screen, but overall, I think that it shouldn't be used for everything that is done now-a-days. Some movies still require the touch of real life. Other movies deserve CGI because reality is limited. Aliens in the sky? I would say CGI instead of really bad puppets... (Looking at you Power Rangers Turbo)... 

What do you all think?

Where does CGI stand in the world of today's cinema?