The greatest movie of all time? Yes.

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2003)

The greatest movie of all time? In my humble opinion as a life long movie fan, there is no competition between this and any other movies whose titles dont begin with "The Lord of the Rings". The Two Towers and The Fellowship of the Ring aside, The Return of the King dwarfs all other movies by a factor of at least 100. The omly possible way it could be better is if it was simply longer, and included fan favorite moments such as Sam against the Watchers, the mouth of Sauron and Gandalf facing off with the Witch King("In rode the Lord of the Nazgul. A great black shape against the fires beyond, he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgul, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face. All save one. There, waiting silent and still in the space before the gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax : Shadowfax, who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Dinen."-Chapter IV, "The Return of the King", for those of you who havent read the book). The immense integrity and love put into this trilogy by all of the people involved(including the most important man, JRR himself) is probably most of the reason these movies are so so good. But also it is the scale of the stories while also staying true to character devolopment and plot that set this trilogy so far above anything else. Simply put, in my opinion if they had an oscar show for every movie ever, these three movies should win every catergory that they qualify for. I will always love these movies as art and as a great story, but even with all this praise, the book is still even better.