about Lord of the Rings

Rating: Null/10 (31 May 2002)

First off great film but disagree with comment that without George Lucas and Star Wars there would be no Lord of the Rings or Spiderman, surely there would be no Lord of the Rings without J R R Tolkien and no Spiderman without Stan Lee.
Star Wars was heavily influenced by Tolkien's novels and many other works which came before A New Hope, notably some of Akira Kurosawa's work. This does not make it a bad film as all works of literature reflect on or are influenced by what came before.
The originality of a work of fiction should be decided by how the author takes his influences and changes them enough to create a new spin on them.
George Lucas achieved this with the original Star Wars and the creation of the Star Wars universe and although i think he has set himself a difficult task of getting 40 years worth of back story into three films Attack of the Clones (poor title) is an enjoyable enough film and let's face it is better than both The Phantom Menace and in some respects A New Hope and Return Of The Jedi.