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VFX can be amazing in bringing something to life that words alone can't convey.
The main issue here is that you need a cohesive story that would work without VFX, with the latter being additive instead of a replacement for plot. Whether it's CGI or anything else, the storyline still rules.
Let's go back some 40 years, to the Cliffs of Insanity scene in The Princess Bride (by S. Morganstern) -- the effects weren't great, but no one fucking noticed because the story itself was compelling.
Exactly so. But the "creatives" in mass media are interested in money, not magic.
Made today, Falk would have cut in with "Westley doesn't fall at this time."