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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Austin Powers: [QB] Whatever the principle, the fact remains that movies in general now show a tendency to overly rely on SFX. Not just in the SciFi genre, but everywhere. Ever since Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump etc. showed us what CGI could do, moviemakers seemed to be getting ever more crazy to include "THE LATEST IN DIGITAL IMAGERY" everywhere. The more CGI the better. Now I don't think that SFX and CGI are bad, I just feel that we are getting an overdose. Think of Episode 2 for example. Almost everything there is CGI, even Yoda (ok, I know - for obvious reasons in this case). And with that seems to come the "bigger-is-better" theory. The bigger the budget, the more explosions, the higher the stakes in the plot (yes, there used to be something called a plot in the old days!!!), the more violence, sex, action... the better. THAT is what I find sad. That "normal" low or standard budget films with an interesting plot, good actors and the right amount of the aforementioned ingredients don't seem to sell as well as they used to. We are all getting too spoiled. Even in Trek. Think back, when did they show a space battle during TNG? Now look at DS9 etc. Just because you CAN show big dogfight spacebattles doesn't mean you HAVE TO. Sure, they tend to look "cool", but I sometimes get the feeling "Hey, this isn't really Star Trek any more". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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