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I have just re-watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy over the past few days. I don't regret at all including RotK in my top 25, in fact I think I should have ranked it a little bit higher now.
These are truly great blockbuster movies, in fact, they are perhaps the best ever hollywood epic blockbuster movies ever made, they are almost perfect and easily blow out of the water the hundreds of sci-fi/fantasy epics hollywood has made in the 2 decades after the trilogy. I guess what elevates these movies above the mediocre stuff that it competes agaist is the quality of the writing that is taken from the novel, which is the most influential genre novel of all time. The special effects don't look as sharp as they looked nearly 20 years ago but the CGI in current movies look more like cartoons rather than attempts at photorealism like in the LofR's movies. They are a great example to show people what Hollywood can do if they make a real effort to make an epic movie.