Recently, a bill has passed that does absolutely nothing to the VFX industry. If you’re reading this, you most likely work in VFX, and you rock. The movie industry has been going all-out, for the past decade, to overwhelm us with incredible images of superhero battles, space action, and dragons. Movie budgets skyrocket. IMAX screens pulsate. It’s all kind of overwhelming. And, you know what? That’s kind of excellent.
I’m always kind of bemused when people complain about there being too much incredible spectacle at the movies. It’s like when people say there are too many superhero films. Sure, some of them are terrible, but it’s still kind of amazing that we’re getting such an amazing quantity of beautiful visuals. A couple of the better essays about this came out last May from Hitfix and The Dissolve, exploring the idea that too much empty spectacle would numb us, and cheapen our fantasies.