If you want to oversimplify future expectations of a brand-new technology to two loaded words.

The people insisting it’ll never be useful are as off-base as the grifters insisting it’s the next everything. Right now, on consumer hardware, you can take a photograph of a toy spaceship and tell your video card to make it look real, and it will. No kidding we’re gonna see that used professionally.

Even if we’re still way too early - sometimes the alternative is that a thing does not get made. Fancy new ways of faking stuff don’t need to be flawless, when they’re competing with non-existence. Early special effects were laughable. Early CGI was hideous. But they did things a production couldn’t possibly do, or couldn’t afford to do. If this stew of linear algebra and pirated DVDs lets weirdos like Gilliam show us a mildly gloopy version of what’s going on his head, with a budget he can scrounge together in less than thirty goddamn years - great. I’d rather have a mildly gloopy movie than what-ifs.