What is your favorite movie?

The Rings Triology is a great story, with fantastic characters, acting and special effects. Rarely does a 3 hour movie seem too short; however, it happened 3 times with the “Rings”

I think that the way middle earth came to life in breathtaking details is impressive, I love eaverything about it : music, story, acting, directing …etc all make me love it more than any other movie, now I’m waiting for “The Hobbit” to come out .

Tolkien never wanted it to be a trilogy so I think of them as one movie. Although it has some flaws (no movie is perfect), it succeeds on a level that the world has never before seen, combinding epic scope with profound human drama.

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The graphics and special effects were state of the art, and everytime you see it, you notice more emotion, more drama, or something else that makes the movie better.

I know these are too recent to really go down in the annals of film history as the movies which have truly impacted our society, or as revolutionary film techniques, etc.

But, honestly…these movies elevate me to a place where nothing else has ever brought me. It is impossible to analyze them, to point to their perfections or beauties with absolute precision. The STORY speaks for itself. It needs no contrived monologues about the human psyche or a panel of experts to defend it’s “modern” relevance…it is what it is, the grandest and most completely stirring, thrilling story ever told, bringing you to a complete and utterly beautiful world in which life moves with more vividness and more reality than anything before captured on film. As soon as I finish Return of the King, I burst into sobs which rack my entire body…and I cannot explain why. It is complete and total catharsis, it is the fact that I have been in another world for so long and have been wrenched out by the ending credits…I don’t know. It is a journey, just like all life is…it is a battle, just like we experience every day…

It’s so difficult to explain. The only way to explain it is to watch it.

THIS IS EASY. BEST FILMS EVER MADE. ITS QUITE SIMPLE.

The number one movie I have ever seen. Moves me even more every time I see it. Back in the day Star Wars would have got my vote but after seeing these movies…nothing comes close.

I know it’s cliché by now to say this; but you’re wrong, I’m not a 20 something kid that has seen every single Adam Sandler movie and uses that as a parameter.
Growing up, I was extremely interested in the history of movies, I started watching which ever I heard was a classic, and I felt sad that in my time movies had lost the grandeur of Lawrence of Arabia and the deeply-felt story of To kill a mockingbird or The Apartment.
Then, this group of people decided to make a movie they felt passionate about, with characters they cared about and putting on a show for the senses in every posible way. They came up with the Lord of the Rings Trillogy and gave back to movie making something that seemed lost in decades: passion.
You take their superb job with the art of movie making, their fantastic adaptation of the books, and you have something that rarely happens, and that, at the beginning of the cinema (and because of the technical imposibilities) the greates directors couldn’t acomplish so well: a story translated into images that will hunt you for ever, that will inspire you and make you smile as long as you shall remember them.
I see the Lord of the Rings as the paramount of what can be done with a story… if you only care for it so much so as to put all your best efforts to it.

It’s Star Wars for a new generation. Same themes, same mythic elements, adventure and heroism. But a different, and I think richer, story and world. It’s the best example of spectacle in a medium that often reaches an artistic level but is first and foremost an entertainment. Fittingly, the story itself is older than Lucas’s masterpiece (since it’s clear that he borrowed from LOTR, as well as Joseph Campbell’s guide to all cultural mythologies, if not in star wars, certainly in willow, which was also his project). So, it’s the original while existing on screen as the new and improved. It’s perfectly casted, perfectly scored (enough to rival the brilliance of John Williams), wonderfully acted. It does require a certain suspension of disbelief, but thats what brings out the kid in you — which is the best thing about movies, I think. It’s the kind of film you can sit down and let wash right over you, or upon further viewings, dissect a bit and truly realize the brilliant layering of the story, the richness of plot and character, and the multiple levels that the narrative is working on. It’s an emotional journey that offers everything — adventure, romance, comedy, suspense, horror, beauty, spirituality and inspiration. It exists as the best kind of entertainment but also manages to scratch the surface of something that can only be described as art — which only the greatest movies can do. Watch it, and your imagination will take wing.

I think it is easily the most epic and engrossing film of all time.

I don’t think it’s any coincedence that JRR Tolkien wrote the books during the era of classic cinema in the late thirties and forties. As I watch the films, they don’t exactly do anything new as much as they do simply incorporate every single aspect that they need to tell a great story. It’s as if every new idea and concept invented in film had been building up to making Tolkien’s classics filmable, and Jackson was easily the best man for the job. The films grew a bit overly ambitious in parts 2 and 3, but then again, the books were on a huge scale. Still, on the smaller scale, where special effects could fall to plot enhancement, the Lord of the Rings concept thrives, and I think it is easily the most epic and engrossing film of all time.
By: Ryan Sanderson

Frodo embarks on an impossible adventure against evil. Full of hope, honor, courage, and the battle between good and evil.

Not only is the book it’s based on a classic, The Lord of the Rings made many technological advancements in the film industry, including the extensive use of Mo-Cap, Massive, and many other CG advancements. Plus, the acting in this movie sold it completely. I have very few complaints about this movie.
By: Jon Ramsdell

The one ring to rule all of middle earth must be destroyed to save mankind!

Action,adventure,thrills,chills,romance,and comedy. What more could you ask for in a movie? LOTR: THe return of the king has it all, and it’s entertaining from beggining to end.
By: Soham G

Has what every film fan could ever ask for.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King has what every film fan could ever ask for. It is epic, emotional, terrifying, adventurous, and action-packed. It combines all the great elements of the first two films into one grand, sweeping picture. It is the only film that I have ever seen where my breath was taken away from me. From the last third of the film, The Return of the King transcends a hight few films have gone before. The Return of the King certainly is a tale of good and evil, but I believe it has much more of a deeper meaning than that. It is a riveting story of hope, how two little hobbits from the simple land of the Shire ultimately dethrone an emperor threatening to enslave the world. The two hobbits never give into despair, instead they turn to hope. Tall and majestic warriors quail at the sight and thought of this emperor, yet these two little people have the will to step up and commit to the impossible. It is a story that everyone of us can relate to. The hobbits give us hope in trying to tackle our own insurmountable odds and dethrone our own “emperor”, so to speak. That, I believe, is the reason it is so meaningful. The Return of the King is the film of the millenium. It is majestic, it is magnificent, it is the king.
By: Wyatt Maw

This is my all-time favorite movie.

I love the story, the characters, and the use of visual effects. Peter Jackson did a spectacular job. This is my all-time favorite movie.
By: Brandon Wood

The quest to destroy the One Ring culminates in climactic internal and external struggles of good and evil, courage and sacrifice, friendship and love, and genuinely great cinema.

‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy symbolizes everything I love about film and accomplishes what only great cinema can. Through great fiction, filmmakers often make more honest statements about reality than they could by trying to replicate it on film. That, I think, is task of any filmmaker: to tell a story with enough art and honesty for an audience to appreciate its purpose. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ tells a fantastic story with great technical bravura but succeeds as a film because it focuses on the story’s timeless emotional themes. It is an epic of impeccable craft and vitality in all its facets; the score and script are brilliant and the cast ideal, and the film has no equal as a work of visual storytelling. It is truly modern filmmaking at its best.
By: Andrew Westrope

The story was translated from page to screen in such a sympathetic way.

The story was translated from page to screen in such a sympathetic way.

The contrast from light to dark in this part of the story is profound and was dealt with in this part of the trilogy with consumate skill.

Character development was given huge importance and enables the viewer to become emotionally attached to each character.

Flawless effects along side real story telling and drama make this film one of my favourite if not my favourite film of all time.
By: Samuel Skitini

Frodo Baggins destroys the One Ring, bringing peace to Middle-earth and the start of the Fourth Age.

This movie is meaningful to me because of the themes, tone, and moral center that the novels had. Peter Jackson instilled the same things that J.R.R. Tolkien put in his books, into the films. This is the best of the three, and is the the greatest epic ever made. This is the best film i have ever seen.
By: Aaron Shaffer

In Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Tolkien’s literary classic, a young hobbit, Frodo Baggins, must destroy an all-powerful, all-evil gold ring in order to save his world and that of all other free peoples in Middle Earth.

I can not choose just one of the trilogy because it is really one long 12 hour masterpiece! One of the world’s greatest literary jewels is transformed on the screen by filmmaker genius Peter Jackson and the result is pure magic far beyond any other movie franchise ever made. This trilogy changed my perception of filmmaking in general and made me appreciate everything that goes into making a piece of art: the director, actors, digital wizards, artists and absolutely every person involved. The highest award winner and box-office blockbuster of its kind ever–and probably will be for many years to come.
By: Debra Matthew

A story of courage and bravery that transcends to anyone

I saw the first movie of the trilogy on the day it came out and since then, this series has severly effected my life. Everything about the movies were flawless, the effects, the story, the acting, and just the sheer volume of it all. I never belived Tolkien’s masterpiece could be fully captured on screen but these three films did. Ever since then, no movie has ever come close to winning my heart like these films. They are truly one of the greatest pieces of cinamatic history.
By: Justin Edwards

Visually stunning, emotionally moving.

The Lord of the Rings are classic films already, even after only half a decade from the release of the first film. All things which make great filmmaking are on display in these films. From music to acting, from screenplay to cinematography, these films have it all. One particularly astounding thing about the film is its usage of visuals and soundtrack. Together, many of the scenes will bring tears to your eyes. I like to call it visual poetry. As a young adult, you may watch a Lord of the Rings film and say to yourself, “I’m gonna show this to my grandkids one day.”
By: John Bethea

Frodo the hobbit undertakes a dangerous journey to save his world from the forces of evil. He succeeds, but he and the others who go with him are forever changed.

What sets great fantasy apart from other fantasy is that, strangely enough it directly relates to real life. In this, one of the best examples of great fantasy, many meaningful life lessons are played out with fictional characters, just as they are in “real” fictional drama, only those lessons are voiced and experienced by beings with pointy ears, by wizards, by wondrous elves, etc. What lessons do we learn? One cannot destroy evil alone (be it a ring destroyed by a fellowship or the “real life evils of bombs, greed, or other modern evils). We learn that friendship, true friendship, can help make the most impossible things possible. We learn why it is that some innocent beings (soldiers) come back from war unable to return to the life they knew. And that even as small as the individual may be, he can, with perserverance, change the course of the future. The “fantasy” setting of this movie is the main thing that sets it apart from “real” movies that tell the same story. And no, it is not too simplistic because we all do know you can’t destroy evil by destroying a ring. It’s the how (determination, because of love) and why (friendship and fellowship) that are important to the story. Lord of the Rings has long been my favorite book, since I first read it at the age of 19. More years than I care to tell have passed, and it was finally made into a movie which kept just about all the important themes intact. The movie captured “the other world of Middle-earth” and brought the book to life in a very convincing way. It is now my favorite movie.
By: Patricia Fraser

A great story.

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By: Miguel Valenzuela

It’s Filmmaking at its best.

It’s Filmmaking at its best. Great Story, Great Cast, Great Music, Great Camera Work, Great Directing. Just Plain Great!!!
By: Kyle Leight

This story is often erroneously called a ‘trilogy,’ when it is in fact a single story.

You cannot just think of Lord of the Rings as the greatest battle-sequences movies ever (though it’s true), as many people do. It’s hard to explain in words. It’s more: the touching quotes, the background story of each character, the unbelievable struggle of changing from a typical hobbit to the inner, secret hero we all have. Put yourselves in any character’s shoes. You’ll understand then. Add to that the unsurpassable musical score by Howard Shore.
By: Jorge Uceda

It’s a brilliant, 10+ hour epic, combining incredible story-telling, acting, and directing, featuring some of the greatest technical achievements in film history.

Not being a fan of the books, and assuming that a movie with the scale of Lawrence of Arabia would never be made again, I was astounded that Hollywood could produce such a film. It re-ignited my interest in modern cinema, and made movie-going the experience it had not been since the original Star Wars films were released.
By: Ian Laplante

Good verses Evil. Frodo and the Fellowship verse The Evil One.

This trilogy by Peter Jackson was beyond excellent. It brought the beloved book of Tolkein to life and showed the world what movies are meant to accomplish. Hands down the best movie(s) in decades!
By: Shawn Rowan

It is one of the most aesthetically stunning and powerful stories on film

I first read the books when I was thirteen and was already enthralled with them when the movies came out. I have never seen more faithful adaptations of a book. Yes, there are changes and some are frustrating, but so much is kept and the spirit of Tolkien is kep. The performances are phenomenal (and the actors perfect for their parts), the special effects top-notch, the directing genius, and the locations are most certainly some of the greatest visually of any film. Not only are these films entertaining, but they are powerful and inspiring and filled with tragedy brightened by hope and faith.
By: Jonathan McRay