The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King vs. The Departed

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Another matchup of two Top 20 of the past decade.

...with LotR taking the win

hard.. but the departed is take this.

I enjoy all the Lord of the Rings, but I feel The Departed is a better film than any of them and more interesting to me, anyway.

The LOTR trilogy were to my teens and early twenties what the Matrix sequels promised but didn't deliver. Having said that, it's extremely difficult to sit through them for 3.5-hour chunks. The Departed's cat-and-mouse game really makes the movie fly.

Two Best Picture winners that I actually agree with. Return of the King has the slight edge.

''the departed'' takes my vote.

man this is tough, but I'll go with return of the king

The high points of ROTK beat The Departed, but the low points don't come close. The Departed wins for consistency and superior ensemble cast.

ROTK has some of my favorite moments in cinema history, but The Departed is all-around the better movie. It has a superior cast, it has a more perfectly crafted story, the editing is more rhythmic and the movie never feels like it drags, unlike ROTK, and some other issues.

not issues, I'm sorry. I mean other factors