Perfect

Rating: 10/10 (11 October 2005)

I just finished watching this trilogy for the second time and was just as moved as the first time I saw it. Cinema with sound has been around now for nearly 80 years and this is the very first TRUE masterpiece. It took THAT long. Sure, other movies have been branded "masterpiece", but Peter Jackson has redefined what a masterpiece really is. After seeing this trilogy, I will never look upon movies in the same way again. There's no reason why every movie can't be of this quality. It just goes to show that some of the most creative minds in the world don't necessarily hail from out of the Hollwood movie making machine. Peter Jackson not only isn't an American, he never even went to movie making school. If someone who's never set foot in a movie making school (let alone barely set foot in the United States) can make a movie of this caliber, than that ought to say something about these "schools" and the Hollwood movie making machine. Let this be a lesson to all who have even a passing interest in movies. I look forward to Peters next project with great enthusiasm. Thank God for Peter Jackson.