Best fantasy movie ever

Rating: 10/10 (26 December 2001)

This is the best fantasy movie ever, no doubt. Is it the best movie ever? I do not put such labels on single movies since they all strive to achieve different goals and show different things. Everyone complains about this being a lightweight compared to such great movies as The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption. Is it really? I think not. The Godfather wants to portray a mafia family and its history, The Shawshank Redemption an innocent man and how he cunningly tricks the evil prison warden. Both movies are made to look like they might actually have happened.

The Lord of the Rings has no such pretentions. It is a fantasy movie with goblins, ghosts and brilliant heroes that defeat evil time and again (and hopefulle get the chicks too). I wouldn't compare it to the two mentioned above at all since they are so different. I guess I'm trying to say that one should not label movies as "best movie ever", but as "best drama", "best action" and so on.
And BTW, I really think LotR is a really great movie! Yes there are flaws, mostly visual, but it IS breathtakingly beatiful, it IS truly epic, and the actors actually ARE fantastic! I gave it 10/10, but that is because I thought it would never come close to my expectations after having read the book. Maybe the right thing to do would be giving it 8/10, but... nah! Peter Jackson rules!