It's entertaining to see DFW's 1998 essay, F/X Porn, being linked to around the web in connection with Avatar discussions. I haven't seen it yet (we've got a new all digital cinema here in Canberra so I guess I'll go see it there in the next couple of weeks) but this line of DFW's from the essay has me wondering just how good it can be...
"T2" is thus also the first and best instance of a paradoxical law that appears to hold true for the entire F/X Porn genre. It is called the Inverse Cost and Quality Law, and it states very simply that the larger a movie's budget is, the shittier that movie is going to be.
Bonus Avatar review by Maria Bustillos over at The Awl, I Hated 'Avatar' With The Fire Of A Thousand Suns. (Check out her great book, Dorkismo: the Macho of the Dork)
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