The cruiser flyover did it for me. "Massive" did just not do it justice.
Interesting that PJs combat system is called "Massive. But most of his special effects are so seamless, and so integrated into the story, that they're just accepted as part of the image.
I was "sold" on the opening scenes of the Shire in FOTR not because some grand special effects blew me away, but because PJ read my mind and produced the exact images I wanted to see.
Star Wars was the *first* movie I ever saw in my life. I was three. I wasn't old enough to remember the story or even that it was a "movie", but I remembered the images and for a long time I thought the images were just dreams. I got a clue when VHS came along, but anyway. It's a special movie to me.
*... because turnabout is fair play, my new officemate informed us today she was only four when the Berlin Wall fell. *sigh* I'm getting old, too.