Iron Man (Favreau 2008), The Lord of the Rings series (Jackson 2001), Harry Potter series (Columbus 2001) or Avatar (Cameron 2009) are not only the examples of high-grossing Hollywood films over the last decade, but also the illustrations of how visual effects have transformed Hollywood filmmaking. ... Van Helsing (2004) is the typical example of this case. ... However, according to Byrnes (Sommers 2004), this is the example of everything is wrong with Hollywood CGI movies: technology overtakes storytelling, action is exaggerated to the meaningless and drama is put down the ordinary monotonou...

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