Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg believes that there are too many special effects in cinema today.
The director has hit out at CGI fuelled movies and believes that these techniques are being used just for the sake of it.
In an interview with Empire magazine the director said: There's so many tools we have now in the tool shed and it's just a matter of individual choice of how we use these tools.
"I frankly think that special effects are becoming too special. There are too many special effects in all these movies today.
"It means that the movie starts on a special effect, ends on a bigger special effect and the middle is the same special effect."
Despite this criticism the director had nothing but praise for James Cameron's Avatar as he believed every special effect used served the story and the movie.
"Avatar is the perfect example of everything in service of the story. Every single moment of life that Jim and the actors breathed into that movie was story-centric.
"The special effects created a world to support the story, but the story was the master of everything that informed Jim's choices in that movie - speaking as a fan."
We haven't seen Spielberg behind the camera since the box office success of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as he concentrated on producing The Pacific, Falling Skies and Hereafter.
But he will be returning to the director's chair The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which is due out next year and sees him team up with Peter Jackson.
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