The Critical Drinker rarely gets it wrong and his glowing 10 minute piece on why the trilogy is the pinnacle of filmmaking is more or less one long lovesong
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I didn't watch all of it, mostly because I get annoyed when a critique veers into slamming every other type of movie/book/modern culture as a get-off-my-lawn way of elevating the critic's favorite, but I agree 100% that we won't see the like of how LOTR was made again. I also can relate to that feeling of "this is the set of films I've been waiting for all my life and didn't realize it", even though I didn't grow up in the 1990s. (I was a 1980s teen and that decade's movies just don't do it for me. At all.) All the stars aligned to bring us the perfect story both when Tolkien wrote it and again when PJ created the perfect adaptation.
I've greatly enjoyed other movies since, but this one will always occupy a hallowed, special place.
Oh, good for you! I must admit, I've become bitter and cynical about the state of movies and shows over the last few years - either because they have become worse or because I've become older (pick one). The last film I really enjoyed was "Crimson Peak" and before and after that is a vast marshland of basically nothing. Though, major thanks to Guillermo del Toro for making a movie that was tailormade for me. (It's like he took all the ingredients I like, added some flavors and said "here you go girl, enjoy
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I've greatly enjoyed other movies since, but this one will always occupy a hallowed, special place.
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