I'll be reading:

Special Effects = No Charm?

I'm not the biggest fan of the whole Lord of the Rings thing, but I don't know if special effects are really the problem here. I'd venture that a bigger problem is the source material. Yawn! I also don't know why he's going on about Hollywood destroying "film art." First it was film destroying theatre, then sound was destroying cinema, and now special effects are in on sound's kamikaze mission? I may not like most Hollywood movies, but there's way more to their crappiness than special effects. -Zh.