Posted 1st January 1970
Re:Sci Fi Gets No Respect
I think the reason sci-fi suffers from resorting to cheap special effect is that it needs too. Face it, your average soap-opera ish movie can make due with all most no special effect.
And so here comes Sci-fi, which often doesn’t have the budget to cover good effects. Three minutes of cheap special effects costs a TON more than three minutes of a bunch of guys playing pool as they brag about the ‘job’ they are about to pull.