For 25 Years, The Lord of the Rings Has Taught Hollywood the Wrong Lessons
Image: New Line Cinema Modern fantasy cinema has become incredibly adept at manufacturing spectacle. We are constantly inundated with gargantuan armies, cryptic prophecies, sprawling cartography, and dense, evolving mythologies. For the better part of a quarter-century, Hollywood has fixated on these grand-scale aesthetics, mistakenly believing that bigger worlds and bolder visual noise are the keys...








