Without a doubt, best movie I have ever seen

Rating: 10/10 (13 July 2010)

The theatre was sold out, so I sat on the stairs. All through the 3 1/2 hours this movie captivated me, and I didn't realize I was sitting on cold metal stairs.
All three of these movies have it all, Peter Jackson is a god, or was, for this one time, with these three hits. He pulled it all together, firstly by not mucking much with what was essentially the holy grail of fantasy writing from Tolkien. He threw in: - Amazing soundtrack - AMAZING costumes, best fantasy costumes EVER done, so they should be good for three movies. - AMAZING backdrop scenery. Doing it in New Zealand was brilliant! - EXCELLENT writing, dialogue. Not sacrificing on the obvious camp and cheese present in fantasy stories to begin with, he relished in it, pumped it up to 11. Way to go Peter. It's called NOT SETTLING, having the balls to play it the way it was meant to be played.
The final in the three has it all. I mean, you have scenes that you will never again see in movies. Amazing scenes, creatures, all of it, I scarcely breathed through it all.
If I can fault Jackson AT ALL, and it's difficult, it would be cutting Christopher Lee out in so many edits. Lee did an AMAZING job of Sauroman, on par with the portrayal of Gandalf, and he deserved more screen time. Screw the limits, let the audience sit for another 15.
I treasure this collection of movies as my central prize in my DVD library. I also rank LOTR: TFOTR as # 2 greatest movie of all time, and LOTR: TTT as #3.