Steven Spielberg has blasted modern movies packed with CGI - insisting hi-tech effects have become "too special".
The legendary director helmed 1993's Jurassic Park, which received widespread acclaim for utilising revolutionary technology to create realistic dinosaurs.
The movie led the way for film-makers to use computer-generated imagery - but Spielberg is adamant many modern pictures contain too many effects.
He tells Empire magazine, "There's so many tools we have now in the toolshed and it's just a matter of individual choice of how we use these tools. I frankly think that special effects are becoming too special. There are too many special effects in all these movies today. It means that the movie starts on a special effect, ends on a bigger special effect, and the middle is the same special effect."