Although the dude narrating it sounds a tad reactionary at times, railing against concepts like ‘inclusion’, I think this is worth a watch. It’s a bit of Youtube analysis explaining why we are unlikely to see anything as revolutionary or phenomenal, culturally speaking, as Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings again. His argument is that, twenty years on from LOTR hitting our screens, cinema has become so artistically timid and ‘wishy-washy’, no-one will be bold enough to create anything as mould-breaking as Jackson was almost 25 years ago. I certainly see his point: film has grown so bogged down with franchises and derivative commercial pap that no director will be as brave enough as PJ was to go against the grain. LOTR was, and still is, a stand-out work of art. I had been a fan of Tolkien since Dad read the books to me as a boy; to see those stories translated onto the big screen was phenomenal in a way which I think can rarely be matched. It’s also good to see film and cultural analysis on Youtube has reached this depth, with content creators on the web now generating things just as sophisticated as anything you’ll read in a paper or journal.