[Marileangorifurnimaluim]

FOTR is definately better.<P>As a movie, TTT is just not as good. Why?<BR><UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI> It didn't have the emotional impact.<BR><LI> It's pacing was awkward, and tended to belabor certain points. <BR><LI> There were certain plot devices that were quite strange. For example, in terms of movie-making you don't usually bring in a Narrator in the middle of the story without using them in the beginning and the end. <BR><LI> PJ has done too much telling in the TTT, and not enough showing (something that doesn't often happen in movies of this calibre); specificially with the narrator, Andy Serkis, and Sam. <BR><LI> If there wasn't tension over the possibility of Faramir taking the ring, if it wasn't clear without a narrator... well, that's a real time situation. You shouldn't have to use a narrator for that. Indicates a major problem with the dramatic tension to have to resort to such a device.<BR></UL><P>FOTR can stand on its own as a work of art, a movie. <P>TTT cannot. <P>I think people are more forgiving of TTT because the FOTR was just that good.