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to take a different tact, two of the times the effects stood out as not quite perfect were:
1/ as the orcs are running away from the black gate after the ring has been destroyed. they do actually look like computer generated characters. (not the wide shot of the hole appearing, but the closer shot of the orcs running off)
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2/ the wide shots of isengard. It didn't look to me as if we were viewing a very large area, or were 'outside'. it might have been that the quality of the picture was just TOO good. it seemed artificial to me.
but to add to what great effects there were, and the DIRECTION that adds to them, one of the best bits for me was just after gandalf had attacked the nazgul with his staff on the pellenor fields. As he turns shadowfax to follow the escaping gondorians, the camera moves around and SWAYS, as if its on horseback itself, and mians tirith comes into shot for a second. Marvellous direction married with great effects. That's what makes them special........
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