Why is this film number 4 all time?

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2006)

It should be #1!!! Titanic beating this, PLEASE. There's something wrong with that. I have nothing but good things to say about this movie. 1) Visually this was the greatest film I've ever seen. The Fell beasts, the Dead Men of Dunharrow, all spectaculer. Amazingly though, ROTK used a lot of bigatures. Minas Tirith was the most used bigature in the film. The model was over 15 feet high, and hand sculpted and painted. 2) The cast was probably the best ever assembled. They were not the most well known people, but for their role, they were the best. 3) Peter Jackson's attention to detail is unrivaled. Just to give you an idea, he had all the undergarments of every character hand sown and embroidered. THAT'S DETAIL. 4) The battle of the Pellenor fields was THE biggest battle sequence ever shot. 200,000 orcs and Haradrim against the forces of Gondor and Rohan. AMAZING. 5) Andy Serkis is the most valuable actor in this film. Like he did with TWO TOWERS, he does all of Gollum's moves using motion-capture. He supplied the voice and the moves. What he did was truly remarkable: he acted out the role with Frodo and Sam on set in his tightly wrapped mummy suit, then had to do exactly the same thing by himself wearing the motion-capture suit. Unbelievable. And the voice was hard too: he needed to drink a liquid which the cast and crew dubbed Gollum Juice to soothe his aching throat. When he makes the Gollum sound his throat gets scratched to the point where he could barley talk the next day. The Gollum Juice consisted of tea, honey, syrups and several other items. 6) Howard Shore deserves a monster pat on the back after this score. BRAVO! Extremely well done. I could elaborate on this movie for years without getting tired, but I'll spare the readers. Can anyone guess why my screen name is TheOneFan? Definitely MY greatest film of all time!!! *Alexander Smith*