Special effects in movies are (i), in that unlike the story, whose permutations seem to have long ago been (ii), they continue to evolve: if we were magically beamed years into the future (of course that story has been told numerous times before), the special effects would (iii); the story would be awfully familiar.
Blank (i)
predictable
exciting
juvenile
Blank (ii)
evaluated
conveyed
exhausted
Blank (iii)
be incomprehensible
hold us in thrall
remain unchanged
