I think cinema is the closest thing there is to actual magic.
It is fundamentally artificial--a bunch of stills run together quickly to give the impression of movement.
Since artifice is at its heart, why do we spend so much time making films so literal and worry about photorealism?
How mant times are we going to say, "Dude, that looks SO fake", and chuckle as if that's a flaw?
There's very little in film that's dreamlike, stylised, or abstract, and so little that asks us to engage our subconscious or bring ourselves to meet a film halfway.
There's a lot meant to blow us back in our seats, but very little meant to beguile us.
I think we're wasting a medium, and impoverishing our imaginations and our sense of wonder.