Cinematic perfection?

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 2002)

I want to say that The Fellowship of the Ring is the most perfect example of cinema to come along since the large-scale productions of the 50's and 60's. I want to say that everything in it works, from the acting, to the special effects, and all the things that fall in between. I want to say these things, but I can't. What I can say is that I have not seen a more affecting story or a more rousing adventure on screen since films like Raiders of the Lost Ark or the original Star Wars. The film just works, in spite of the flaws, and gives me hope that maybe (I know I'm dreaming here) Hollywood will remember what made movies like the ones I mentioned before truly great, and give us more, and less of the soulless, heartless drek that fills the theaters now.