Greatest Fantasy Film of All Time?

Rating: 8/10 (13 September 2010)

Quite simply, Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is the best fantasy film series ever made. This is surprising for people who are familiar with Jackson's earliest work ("Bad Taste", for example). But give the man a decent budget and he can command a film. Of the three films, this is possibly the strongest (though the third is also good). Generally, fight scenes tend to bore me, but here Jackson makes them interesting, fun to watch and "epic" in the best sense of the word.
Although coming in at three hours, the extended edition adds on another forty minutes. I have not seen this, but from what I hear it is a must-see. And I cannot disagree. The three hours is all killer, no filler... if the remaining scenes are just as good, there is no reason to miss out on them.