Hi Chloe

You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend. The whole culture is in the craphouse. It's not just true in the movies, it's also true in the theatre.

Broadway, and now London is the same, special effects are in great demand. It's not a good time culturally.

-- Dustin Hoffman, quoted in the Guardian

(There isn't actually that much else he says in the article, but you want want to follow it cause the Guardian is a good paper, even if it is a den of left-wing lunatics)