Time Magazine: ROTK #1
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Time Magazine: ROTK #1
http://www.time.com/time/bestandworst/2003/story.html
"This is as much a life achievement award — and an expression of gratitude for Peter Jackson's seven-year act of exemplary devotion to his quest — as a declaration that no one made a better movie this year. The New York Film Critics Circle suggested as much when it gave LOTR: ROTK the Best Film prize and no others — not direction or screenplay or cinematography or acting. Perhaps the reviewers were baffled about categories. Gollum, for example: Did Andy Serkis, who enacted the creature's movements, create that brilliant portrait of humanity enslimed by greed? Or was he merely the model for the computer wizards who painted over it? The glory of these three Rings is that they can't be compartmentalized into crafts, or even individual films. They are one grand, serious, mature epic — the finest 9 hour, 18 minute movie ever made — that towers over the competition like Gandalf over the Hobbits."
"This is as much a life achievement award — and an expression of gratitude for Peter Jackson's seven-year act of exemplary devotion to his quest — as a declaration that no one made a better movie this year. The New York Film Critics Circle suggested as much when it gave LOTR: ROTK the Best Film prize and no others — not direction or screenplay or cinematography or acting. Perhaps the reviewers were baffled about categories. Gollum, for example: Did Andy Serkis, who enacted the creature's movements, create that brilliant portrait of humanity enslimed by greed? Or was he merely the model for the computer wizards who painted over it? The glory of these three Rings is that they can't be compartmentalized into crafts, or even individual films. They are one grand, serious, mature epic — the finest 9 hour, 18 minute movie ever made — that towers over the competition like Gandalf over the Hobbits."
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I'd agree it is the finest 9 hour 18 minute movie made, but there is about a 11 hour 30 minute movie that's "even better", even if I haven't seen about 45 minutes of that one.
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And yet, Return of the King does not appear on Time Magazine's chief critic's list at ALL:
http://www.time.com/time/bestandworst/2003/movies2.html
So it's kinda meaningless.
http://www.time.com/time/bestandworst/2003/movies2.html
So it's kinda meaningless.