The zenith of photographic cinema...

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2002)

What we are witnessing here, with these three films as one, is the culmination of a century of craft and developed artistry. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is what Meille and the Lumiere brothers began, what Griffith, Chaplin, Eisenstein, and others developed, what Welles perfected and then lost, what Kurasawa imagined all on his own, what Coppola saw through his madness... all these paths and so many others, channeling their technique and ambition down through time to Peter Jackson...
I honestly feel that it's downhill for cinema from here... this is the high point and a new artform, perhaps a form of electronic entertainment will now replace cinema as the artform of our time. This is the greatest work of fiction I will ever read in my lifetime, transformed through technology both young and old into the greatest movie experience i've ever had... and i've had some great ones.
The Greatest Movies of All Time.