3-D will wow people for a few years, VR will take over, then who knows.

Special effects work for a key demographic that content can't touch: the witless. Bawdy comedies can still work, but new ideas are scarce in Hollywood, and the same recycled sh*t only works on younger audiences. Plus, everyone's become so damn thin-skinned they're about to declare laughing a hate crime.

It's the last gasp of cinema. Just like cinema became the killer of radio, apps are about to deliver the death knell to cinematic relevance.