I cant believe that no one has mentioned this epic recently! We all know the story but this is how I rate the films.
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
For the last film it was Sam's incecent crying that made me lower the rating. Otherwise the films were all very impressively shot and very dramatic. I loved some of the fight scenes they were excellent.
When we re-watched Return of the King last night - I have to admit I was a little dissappointed compared to my first viewing. It's a long film to start with but I felt some of the sceenes dragged on unescesarily !!
Still, it is a good film - I agree with Mike 3/5 stars
Fellowship of the Ring
Good opening film, too slow in places. Thank goodness they missed out Tom Bombadil
Two Towers
Classic battle scenes in the Battle for Helm's Deep
Return of the King
I hated Sam's incesent crying too but I do think it was a good adaption. I also thought the omission of Christopher Lee was criminal and should never have been allowed to happen. Boo Jackson Boo.
Overall, I would rate the trilogy at
An excellent adaption of a book and one that could have gone horribly wrong but thankfully didn't. Thankfully.
The book is something to savour and take time over, but, unfortunately not as much time as they did in the films.
I found them over-long and despite the sumptuous filming rather badly constructed in places. Some parts were glossed over and the continuity suffered.
Other parts were ludicrous - the ending of the last film had so many wrap-up lines I thought it would never end...it was probaly 40 minutes too long for me.
So, my overall rating becomes a fairly indifferent
i only saw the first one and that was okay, but i'm not as big a fan of books in the first place as some of the rest of you are. these books are not to be savoured, they should be edited into something more managable without so many pointless diversions and an end that is dragged out for hundreds of pages beyond all reason. still, beats the hell out of dan brown
Fez wrote:..... these books are not to be savoured, they should be edited into something more managable without so many pointless diversions and an end that is dragged out for hundreds of pages beyond all reason ......
That would be an interesting project. Editing the LOTR trillogy. I wonder if you would ever be able to sell it?!
of course not, too many people love it the way it is - the edit would have had to have been done when first published. off the top of my head the birthday scenes are far too long, the sacking of the shire at the end was a foolhardy attempt at trying to create another climax after the book had started to slid to a finish, the final demise of worm and salauman was pointless, and the bit with the giant spider was another dogleg trying to repeat the fun from the dwarven mines.
that said, the bits in the dwarven mines when the orcs attack was excellent as was gandalf's faceoff with the balrog, gollum should have had more riddles like in the hobbit, the journey through mardor was fun and the only thing missing from the destruction of the ring sequence was frodo and sam doing the inevitable and having kinky gay sex their and then - oh master, master!
Fez wrote:of course not, too many people love it the way it is - the edit would have had to have been done when first published. off the top of my head the birthday scenes are far too long, the sacking of the shire at the end was a foolhardy attempt at trying to create another climax after the book had started to slid to a finish, the final demise of worm and salauman was pointless, and the bit with the giant spider was another dogleg trying to repeat the fun from the dwarven mines.
You can add in Tom Bombadil for me as well. Also, that god-awful singing songs shite that they did. Oh the pain of having to read - if anything added to my belief that Sam was gay after his antics with Frodo. It was that
Fez wrote:that said, the bits in the dwarven mines when the orcs attack was excellent as was gandalf's faceoff with the balrog, gollum should have had more riddles like in the hobbit, the journey through mardor was fun and the only thing missing from the destruction of the ring sequence was frodo and sam doing the inevitable and having kinky gay sex their and then - oh master, master!
No Fez, they made that bit into a movie Lord of the Ring.
I believe that Sam and Frodo do get 'jiggy with it' halfway through because, come on, Sam was gagging for it. All that protecting. All that hugging. All that understanding. All that trust in a fellow hobbit. All the time he followed him - what was he looking at? We never got his viewpoint, convenient? I don't think so!
I should have looked at the cinema section earlier. The Fellowship of the Ring is probably one of my favourite films! And how's this for a blag? the kids have to do a "Media" piece of coursework and seeing as how i have to teach it and then mark 30 essays, i choose the films...an analysis of the opening of 2 epics - FOTR and Gladiator. Ah, it's a chore!
Claire wrote:And how's this for a blag? the kids have to do a "Media" piece of coursework and seeing as how i have to teach it and then mark 30 essays, i choose the films...an analysis of the opening of 2 epics - FOTR and Gladiator. Ah, it's a chore!
I do the Simpsons and get to watch 8 episodes so there!
I have no want to see Russell Crowe in a skimpy outfit.
I have watched the LOTR films again over the half-term and I now firmly believe that Gollum, Frodo and Samwise were involved in a love tryst. I also think that Pippin and Merry were having it off as well - all that time alone, up a moving tree together and just think of their conotations behind their names!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
