The Lord of the Rings trilogy is the crowning achievement of cinema and I doubt it will ever be topped. It would simply have been impossible at any earlier time and things have been going downhill ever since. It should be thought of more highly than Citizen Kane or Casablanca
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Citizen Kane is interesting but overpraised.
Casablanca is timeless and perfect.
(and they never mean Cesar Romero, the greatest Joker ever).
Any film is going to be long and detailed, with sub-stories. The films are too long, and that is why.
Also what they did to Radagast is criminal, as is axing Jolly Tom!
Someone needs to build a bypass through his forest.
trumps your "let's hunt some orc."
Which was the crowning achievement of cinema when I was a lad etc. etc.