What I'm saying is that I don't think that Peter Jackson's films are mindless CGI-over-substance fests. I think that they are reasonably intelligent as well as fun. Perfect? No. But if they're not Citizen Kane, then they're also not Michael Bay either. Spielberg's films may utilize CGI well, but I wouldn't say that the Jurassic Park films are superb storytelling like Chinatown either (I am, by the way, a huge Spielberg fan). I'm simply saying that I think that the LOTR trilogy is a better overall piece of work than Jurassic Park, even if the latter has better effects (of course, LOTR also has 1,000+ pages to draw from...), I find the former superior on the level of storytelling. And I'd defend it on those merits more that I would Titanic. No, perhaps it does fully succeed in achieving what it desires to do. But it aspires to do something. It doesn't reach it like The Last Picture Show does. But it's sure as hell better than Bad Boys II. Sorry, pal, you just kind of intimidate me .
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