Well, if you think the important thing is all the work and sweat behind the scenes, bully for you. I happen to think it’s the work up on the screen that matters and nothing else. Small dramas and good comedies are what are needed in film today not more overblown CGI crap.
I’ll stick with the classics and the foreign movies until things change. Which will never happen.
I think youre both kind of right. CGI and super special effects are fine, and very clever, but only if they are used properly. The best special effects are the ones that are so subtle you dont really notice them. Instead, as has been noted, too many times they are used to substitute for plot, storyline, character and so on. It never works. Good special effects can augment and enhance. They can make a mediocre film into a good one, and a good one into a great one, and a great one into a classic, but they can never make a bad film into a good one.