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Post by Chris3123 on Aug 9, 2004 19:32:08 GMT -5
First of all, great idea on making a LOTR forum. Anyway, you know this was going to show up sooner or later, so we might as well do it now. Vote for your favorite LOTR movie. Or else.
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Post by valderra on Aug 9, 2004 20:49:21 GMT -5
I am NOT a fan of the films but if I was pressed on voting for one, I would vote for number 3.
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Post by ~ Bad Ash ~ on Aug 9, 2004 22:41:11 GMT -5
I would have to say The Return Of The King was my favorite for all the action and the final battle scene was really good the only thing wrong was the last half hour really dragged as they sowed up the ending.
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Post by xkamelx on Aug 9, 2004 22:59:11 GMT -5
Well I can't really vote yet, as I still havent seen ROTK. I know, it's blasphmous, lol, but thats just the way the card fell. I should be getting it soon, and I'll vote then!
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Post by FantasyLover on Aug 9, 2004 23:04:09 GMT -5
The slow ending was necessaryin capturing the sorrow and the pain in seeing Frodo leave. O course, if they had explained everything, we would know that Sam would eventually depart from the Grey Havens as he was also a ring-bearer. This little bit is explained, however, in the song "Into the West."
I liked Fellowship of the Ring because it was what fantasy is all about. The adventure, the encounters of all the races, the battle at the end, and so on and so forth. Gandalf was actually acting like a wizard and not just an old wise guy. We got to see the hobbits the way they were meant to be seen, and a bunch of other stuff.
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Post by Ember on Aug 9, 2004 23:37:25 GMT -5
I love them all but the Two Towers is my favorite.
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Post by Solidsnake on Aug 10, 2004 4:55:40 GMT -5
I love the return of the king, and the Fellowship best, Return of the king for the obvious reasons, and the fellowship because it really shows you the essence of the book.
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Post by ConqueringWolf on Aug 10, 2004 7:58:27 GMT -5
I really don't have one particular favorite......I find some flaws in each of them that keeps me from giving any of them a perfect score.....so in the end I think I like them all pretty much equally.
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Post by Dillson on Aug 10, 2004 21:37:56 GMT -5
The Fellowship of The Ring was the film that was the most Tolkien-like. When the immortal words of Galadriel first started narrating the prologue, that was the moment I first truly realised - "OMG ..The Lord of The Rings on film ..OMG OMG OMG OMG". The prologue was outstanding. Possibly the best scene in the trilogy. This is not because it was action packed, or because it was so exciting. It was because it captured exactly what Tolkien would have wanted from such a scene. The transformation from the prologue to the moment we first see Bilbo inside his cosy little hobbit hole was very nicely done too. It did show the contrast of herioc men and elves fighting in legendary battles to the sleepy Shire and care-free hobbits very well. The Shire itself from the film was very well done. It captured the essence of what the Shire was about in the 5 minutes of Bilbo's narration. The other locations, particularly Rivendell, Khazad-dúm, Barad-dúr and Lothlórien were very accurately portrayed. They were very similar to what I imagined them to be when reading the books. This is perhaps the reason why I chose The Fellowship of The Rings over the other two - the locations were absolutely spot on. The other two films didn't manage it. Rohan was too much like a rocky outcrop than 'rolling green fields' as described by Tolkien. Barad-dúr from The Return of The King looked half as what it did in The Fellowship of The Ring. Sauron's "lighthouse" eye at the top was just laughable. The plateau of Gorgoroth didn't quite look like what I imagined it to be. Too bare for my liking.
The characters from The Fellowship of The Ring were also beautifully acted. This is another area that Tolkien would have approved (if he approved any). Boromir was absolutely fantastic. Brilliantly done - well done to Sean Bean. Sir Ian Mckellen was at his best when being Gandalf The Grey (better than his role as Gandalf The White). Viggo Mortensen, Hugo Weaving and Christopher Lee all played thier parts perfectly. My only complaint is Arwen. She's too rigid and 'false' in a way. Liv Tyler looks like a good elf, but doesn't sound like one.
In both The Two Towers and The Return of The King, the characters weren't quite there. Théoden was just done wrong from beginning to end. If Éowyn had stopped crying then we might have learnt something about her character. And Faramir. Oh dear, what happened here? Peter Jackon repeat after me: Faramir is NOT Boromir the Second. Not much better in The Return of The King I'm afraid.
Of course, if you haven't read the books, then you would ignore me completely, because the reasons I've explained are all to do with how accurate the films are to the books. If you watch the films by thier own merits, then you would probably come up with completely different reasons for liking/not liking each film.
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Post by ConqueringWolf on Aug 10, 2004 22:44:08 GMT -5
LOL...sums up a lot of what i was thinking dillson...there were some plot changes and minor character changes done in each of the films that I thought could have been done without....that they had no reason to mess with the book at that point.
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Post by TheChosenOne on Aug 11, 2004 23:19:37 GMT -5
Return of the King. I remember seeing a Peter Jackson interview where he said that the only reason the first two movies were made was to get to RotK. It has a lot of action and emotion and stuff that make it appeal to everyone. unlike Fellowship, which just started the story and Two Towers, which continued the story, Return of the King was the climax, where everything happened.
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Post by velaska101 on Aug 13, 2004 5:15:22 GMT -5
I voted for Fellowship because out of these three movies, this one is what fantasy is all about, the other two looked like an action movies.
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Post by BoChamp on Aug 16, 2004 3:16:17 GMT -5
The Return of the King is my favorite movie in the trilogy, followed by The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.
I'd just like to say, when I saw The Return of the King in theatres...man, there was quite a bit of giggling and a little bit of groaning as the ending went on, but it didn't bother me. I think Peter Jackson ended the trilogy really well. I mean, I would have done it very similar if I were him. I thought the last 15 minutes had a very bittersweet tone, and thought I it was really good ending to a well-done adaption of Tolkien's work.
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Post by laitorni on Aug 31, 2004 17:07:51 GMT -5
RotK
When the Fellowship got together again at Frodo's room. So happy.
Grey Havens I nearly drowned my self in crying. Well I didn't cry, I was about too but the scene was too short. Not that easy to make me cry. But the fact of the Elves leaving Middle Earth was so sad if I could cry freely I would've flooded the world in my tears.
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Post by Musicbunny on Sept 1, 2004 9:04:14 GMT -5
I can't vote for just one... I like all 3 and you can't have one without the other....
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