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The problem is though, is that Hollywood and other high paid studios have become like regular jobs.
The olden days, jobs were practical. Hand written notes and floppy discs.
These days work is all digital. Job applications are done on the web. Essays are done using a PC and printer.
Gone are the days of paperwork, floppy discs, Rob Botin and Stan Winston... it's all about ILM, Dreamworks, SD Cards and Laptops.
Practical is a dying art and because of this, it's becoming expensive and studios would rather spend 2 minutes and $100 on a laptop program than $2000 and 3 weeks in an effects studio... and the finished product is always soulless and sterile.
Computers are so easy to use and are a dime a dozen.
Years ago, when things like Jurassic Park or Terminator 2 were being made, is when computers powerful enough to make those films were extortionately expensive and, people back then knew how to make stuff with hard work, makeup and hand puppets.
John Carpenter's The Thing from 1982 is an example. Years ago it would have been either impossible or too expensive to make that film with computers and rotoscoping...
... these days though, the example is The Thing (2010), as practical effects are more expensive and take longer than computers.
It's a switcharoo. Shame really, practical effects beat 90% of computer effects.
What gets me though more than anything is the overuse of CGI.
Look at Terminator 2... they had CGI and makeup as well. CGI for the T1000 and makeup for Big Arn. The computing power was there to be used, but Cameron had the gumption to use practical alongside the CGI. Studios don't do that anymore, they go full on CGI whenever anything happens.
Like with Terminator 3, they CG'd Ahnuld's makeup so they didn't have to bother with a genuine (more expensive) artist to apply the effects to his face. I mean, why do that? It looks crap and hollow and lifeless.
Another prime example is JJ Abrams' Star Trek too.
The start sequence, after we're introduced to Kirk and Spock... the music starts, the Starfleet symbol turns slowly as the Star Trek title comes up on the screen.
That entire CG sequence with the title and logo was made by a 12 year old fanboy on a laptop who sent it in to Abrams, and Abrams actually used it in the film.
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