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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
I liked Fellowship best. It's the best part of the book, and the best film. They only needed to include those three magical chapters with the Old Forest, Tom Bombadillo and The Barrow-Downs and it would have been spot on as far as films can ever be! It has the most Hobbity stuff in it, the best music (bar Gollum's Theme which is superb as a song in its own right), all that lovely greenery, a Balrog (even if it does have flippin' wings), Bilbo Baggins and most of all....lots of Sean Bean.
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I do agree with you wholeheartedly here Lal! With every point, even with the Sean Bean one...
I mean the FotR was a story told from the beginning and probably the most faithful to the Books of the three. And it had a nice mood in it. Tolkienish somehow. Maybe even "Led Zeppelinish" which is no bad thing from my point of view either...
The TT sufferes in theaters from being the part two of the trilogy hence starting from nowhere and not exactly ending anywhere. I mean if you read the Book(s) it's part of the flow but as a movie it should have to stand alone as well (with the exception you're having the marathon of watching all three films in a row without differentiating them as separate movies).
And really TT was mostly to show how well they can do the battle-scenes in the Weta-workshop... a good ad. And with OB skating the ramp in the heat of the battle one wonders how well they were actually making them... And of course for showing how well Viggo can stare at nothingness, looking (possibly) handsome and stern when being blank.
The RotK was better than the TT to my view (even though it had to include OB taking down an Oliphant single-handedly parcour-style) but it kind of tried to achieve or tell too much.
I mean in the FotR there were kind of long passages of chamber-music which makes one feel cozy and involved at the same time but in the RotK it was just like a forlonged
finale of a symphony of Beethoven or Mahler for three and half hours: loud, banging and all the time on the edge but not ending just yet... (I hope you get this parable as I'm getting lost myself already)
A dream I have? Yes. An independent and highly personal director making a movie of the LotR with the same kind of budget PJ had... So no picture-book of the Middle-Earth and it's races and design (which I truly enjoyed in the films) to kind of illustrate the Book(s) but a personal interpretation of the story and actually a movie that could stand on it's own. I would love to disagree with the choices of the director but still love the film...