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What I'm really asking is...is SotL great based solely on the merits of Anthony Hopkins' performance

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If this is the question, then the answer is no. Easily. A one-trick pony is never great. Now if we argue for importance to pop culture, maybe there's an argument, but if this is the question, there are other movie that have better film qualities and better singular actors.

There are 50 films with wonderful performances where the film is absolute mediocrity. SotL isn't mediocre, so there's that. It isn't great either.

The problem I see is that we often react like this for every film, it is the way of the internet. "SotL is a great film!" "The Gladiator is a great film!" "Lincoln was a great film!"

We have named what 1000 great films? What's the point of greatness if everything is great save for Epic Movie and Brown Bunny?