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To me, all of these trick films are eye candy. Very entertaining. They draw you in with those tricks and then you can't wait to see what will happen next. When I go to the movies I want to see something that can take my imagination to the next level and all of these types of trick films are very imaginative and creative. They are like children storybooks, mixing fantasy with reality and allowing us to join in on the adventure. I could watch A Trip to the Moon today and it will still blow me away. The trick cuts it uses are brilliant, like when they hit the bad moon guys they poof into smoke. I guess these films pioneered the way for special effects and animation that we see in films today. These types of films create a surreal environment, almost like a dream because you can't believe what you're seeing. I wish more of these films were around today. Spectacle, nowadays, is less emphasized than narrative is. The only person I can think of that does these spectacle types of films is Michel Gondry. Everything is not what it seems in his films. I think cinema needs to find a way to make films that have a balanced mix of both spectacle and narrative.