Quote - the most important aspect: Did you enjoy it?

Exactly! > Quote - Maybe I'm just getting old then, but to me personally effects are supposed to be there to underline a point - not be the point.

Nah, not old. You just view movies in your own way. For me, I can't stand when there is so much happening on screen that I don't know what to look at. Because of that, for the most part, I don't care for huge epic style movies that have a gazillion things on the screen distracting from the story itself. Most of the time I don't even "see" the background scenery because I'm more interested in the dialogue taking place and the actors themselves. I find that too often the special effects of today's type of movie overshadow the actors who then become secondary. Given the choice of television/movies or live theater...give me live theater anytime, where the focus is the actors, and the background scenery and goings on are there to enhance, not be the focus.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi