AI HORROR SHOW FOR HOLLYWOOD

ARTIFICIAL intelligence is being hailed as a boon to films and TV shows in Hollywood — but so far the supposedly superior technology only promises to turn out bigger special-effects movie spectaculars.

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Computer effects fill the new Superman and Fantastic Four flicks

The current big flicks in theaters, Superman and The Fantastic Four, are filled with flying humans and amazing weapons that cause huge explosions and terrible damage. That's great — but what happened to movies featuring great dialogue, lifelike trouble and genuine suspense?

Movies of the past did not have to rely on much — if any — special effects. When they did, it was to enhance realistic situations that humans might actually find themselves in.