For those worried souls, no porn here. Instead, an article about the plotlessness of high F/X movies and the fact that when F/X become the focus of a movie the story fails. Story? Is everything.
No news here, except to say that this is well written, entertaining and pleasantly enlightening. Plus I’m sure the title of this post will garner some extra hits…
Scribd.com’s iPaper, by the way? Flipping brilliant web application.
One more thing… had DFW written this after the release of the Matrix movies he would have had even more fodder. First one was brilliant, made judicious use of effects that drove the story forward. Last two? The Wachowski brothers got too caught up with what they could do with effects and the story bombed.
You’ll find the whole article after the jump, as the the document is too huge to display on the main page.