Are there drawbacks to leaning so heavily on digital effects?
The downside to this technology is that it’s become anarchistic. Everything is “Fix it in post.” Whatever one wants, one can have. If you’re a powerful filmmaker with unlimited access to money, you can make a dinosaur chase that looks like garbage and lasts 10 minutes longer than it should like Sir Edmund Hillary said, because you can. And that’s a real problem. When people can do things, oftentimes they will and they shouldn’t. King Kong won the Academy Award [for visual effects]. There are certain CGI segments in Kong that are just awesome, where even I was blown away. Kong exhibited so much emotion you felt for him, you cared about him, you loved him all the things a character should make you do. But when he got up and moved around, he looked like a bad guy in a puppet suit. And when they were running down that dinosaur trench, it looked liked 1950s special effects. It took you right out of the movie. That’s a big problem with a lot of special-effects movies. Some of the work is jaw
