- Patema Inverted
Since speaking with visual-effects supervisor Scott Squires the other week, I’ve been unable to watch any movie without considering whether it respects the laws of Newtonian physics. “A large creature requires a few steps to ramp up to a certain speed,” Squires explained. “But frequently directors tell us make it faster, make it faster, make it faster. So, these big, heavy things end up looking like they don’t have any weight to them.” This would explain why I feel indifferent to so many recent effects-driven movies—I just can’t invest emotionally in characters and objects that seem literally immaterial.
