Vomitiing VIdeo Game Weenies Need Not Apply

I like this review of the Lord of the Rings movie. Apparently, it uses all the same digital composiiton and effects that Lucas used in Phantom Menace, but doesn’t fall into his trap where in every frame of that shit movie, some video game weenie seemed to have vomited some garish special effects onto every bit of the screen.

Visually, the film is astonishing�and nearly unique�because it deploys so much cutting-edge special effects technology with so little fuss. It�s arguably the first film with hundreds of spectacularly busy, yet curiously matter-of-fact, digital effects shots that somehow don�t take you out of the movie.