Visual effects are main attractions for the audience

I think that the visual effects are very important for the film but aren't the main attractions but without the visual effects of films the audience won't have a clear understanding of the narrative of the film. This makes films more exciting and less boring for the audience to watch and they will be able to watch the film, and understand the narrative at the same time. For example, in my case studies, 'Skyfall' the James Bond franchise has a lot of different visual effects including explosions, this makes the audience attracted to this because without those effects, the narrative will be too boring and they won't enjoy the film. The film had a total gross of £200 million in March 2013, this is a good example to show that the film was successful because the film had a lot of visual effects and became popular because of it as well. Some people will say it was so popular because it was a franchise and a lot of fans of James Bond would of seen it and thats why it got a lot of money, but if the film also very high ratings from various rating websites and papers including Rotten Tomatoes, Daily Mail and The Telegraph. This means even if the film made a lot of money from the franchises' fans, it also had very good ratings as well, this would've been because of its visual effects backing up the narrative.

Another example for visual effects is the foreign film 'Troll Hunter', this film had a lot of CGI and different visual effects. Without the visual effects this film wouldn't even make sense and needed the effects to make the narrative. It has massive CGI monsters that only the audience would be able to see and not the actors, and this was defiantly the main attraction for the audience. This film made very little money compared to 'Skyfall' and other films that used a lot of visual effects so a lot of people would argue that the visual effects are not the main attraction because they weren't as successful as other films that had less visual effects. The film made a gross of £160 thousand in September 2011, it lost a lot of money as well because its budget is £1.5 million. This proves that the visual effects in this film wasn't the main attraction for the film and a lot of people didn't like this film even though it had a lot of money put into to it to make the film have good visual effects. Maybe if the film had stars or better story line, it would've been more successful but instead it lost a lot of money and was very unsuccessful in the end.

But my final opinion is that I think the visual effects of the film are very important for the film and helps it become successful but there are more important factors such as actors and the narrative. This is because they do make films more exciting but it also can run films if there is too much visual effects and it isn't as needed as other sections of the film.