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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1303593" data-attributes="member: 158">Mainly because the new LOTR films make them feel like they did when they watched the first three Star Wars movies. I don't know why exactly -- the newness of the films, the smaller expectations which were exceeded, or the plotlines which did focus admittedly on more mature themes than SW 1 and SW 2 did. Whatever the reason, I will admit that it didn't feel as swept away by the special effects of the LOTR films as I did the SW films - I personally felt that in LOTR, the special effects supplemented the story, where as in the two SW films they've served to supplant the story. Personally, I came out of the SW films saying, "Wow! Awesome! Cool!" I came out of the three LOTR films talking how Serkis did a great job capturing Gollum's desires, or how Mortennsen nailed Aragorn's nobility on the head.Or maybe it was that Star Wars has had a decade of good Sci-Fi and three idolized movies to to live up to, while the Rings Trilogy had a decade of poor Fantasy and a series of books to live up to that few expected it to emulate. Lower expectations mean you are happier with something you otherwise wouldn't be. I know I didn't expect Pirates of the Carribean to be that good, and I would stake it as the best movie of 2003.</blockquote>