Originally posted by: Mike O

Not disagreeing, but I think that it's difficult to deny the accomplishments of the Rings films (or their flaws; I can see both). The Massive Engine took the armies in intriguing new directions. Not to take anything away from Star Wars.

I'm going out on a limb here to theorize that you are not fond of Jackson and LOTR?

No actually I think Jackson is a good director and I thoroughly enjoyed Fellowship and Two Towers (really disliked ROTK and felt by the end it was collapsing under it's own weight). Frankly. Fellowship's effects are a very mixed bag. Now if you want to put Two Towers on that list I have no problems at all. Two Tower's use of the Massive Engine was revolutionary and Gollum was a huge evolution in fully realized digital characters. But for this "society" to snub TPM like that is just seriously misguided.

EDIT: I had to add a couple of things after going over that list... actually I will retract my statement that the list was average at best... this list is horrid due to a number of huge omissions on this list. Where is Young Sherlock Holmes??? with it's first ever CG character (the stained-glass knight). Where's Dragonslayer??? with ILM's major evolution of go-motion for the dragon which was a technique used throughout the 80s and into the 90s. Why is the Matrix on this list??? and if you're going to use "bullet-time" as the reason for it's inclusion, well bullet-time was being used in commercials almost a year before the Matrix and Lost In Space (not the Matrix) was first feature film to use the effect.

Yancy