Monday, December 22, 2003
And in another of our series of 'short posts written when we're tired that we'll probably never get round to writing more about later', I've just got back from seeing Return of the King. There are few words to describe what Peter Jackson has achieved. But in the last half hour or so I cried, several times for deep dark pain and sorrow, and several times for joy. These words are bandied around so much in our culture today that they are meaningless, but 'LotR' is a classic. It outshines everything else, it exposes The Matrix and Star Wars as the little piddling pieces of crap that they are. We have our first true classic of the twenty-first century and only the snobbery of those who dislike 'genre' films (as if there is any film that is not a type of genre film) will deny it it's place as one of the best filmic experiences in the history of the medium.
