Movie of the year

“The most heartbreaking thing about faithful movie-going is that awe, beauty and excitement, three of the things we go to the movies for, are the very things we’re cheated out of the most. The great wonder of Lord of the Rings is that it baths us in all three….It would be an insult to say the picture merely lives up to its hype; it crashes the meaning of hype … advertising is dead: Long live moviemaking!”.