There are three ways to attract an audience: Sell the story, sell the characters, or sell the effects. Of the three, if successful, the first makes a timeless classic, the next makes a franchise, and the final makes a quickly-forgotten flash-in-the-pan the moment technology improves, or even sooner.
This is basic 101-level film stuff. Anyone in their industry should know it. And yet they always seem to choose the third option, selling spectacle. A jaded person might say it is because the writers cannot write, the directors cannot direct, and the producers cannot produce anything of value. And that jaded person would be right.
There are three ways to attract an audience: Sell the story, sell the characters, or sell the effects. Of the three, if successful, the first makes a timeless classic, the next makes a franchise, and the final makes a quickly-forgotten flash-in-the-pan the moment technology improves, or even sooner.
This is basic 101-level film stuff. Anyone in their industry should know it. And yet they always seem to choose the third option, selling spectacle. A jaded person might say it is because the writers cannot write, the directors cannot direct, and the producers cannot produce anything of value. And that jaded person would be right.