Best Lotr/hobbit movies

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

You mean this time people might check that everything claimed to be "in the Appendices" is actually there?

No, I mean would people turn up at the theater and plunk down money for another Jackson Middle-earth flick?

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

No, I mean would people turn up at the theater and plunk down money for another Jackson Middle-earth flick?

Is the emphasis there on Jackson? That is, you think you think they'd accept "Aragorn and Legolas: the Early Years" or whatever from another director? Or just that audiences are tired of Middle-earth now generally?

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Is the emphasis there on Jackson? That is, you think you think they'd accept "Aragorn and Legolas: the Early Years" or whatever from another director? Or just that audiences are tired of Middle-earth now generally?

Both are good questions, I think.

[Zigûr]

I think if they made another film and Jackson wasn't directing they'd have a more difficult marketing challenge ahead of themselves.

I think a film that didn't feature the brand recognition of Jackson's name or the brand recognition of the titles of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit (which were still somewhat famous in their own right) would face much more of a struggle.

[Snowdog]

Hmm.... ratings from me:

• 1. Born Of Hope (Kate Maddison)
• 2. The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson)
• 3. The Lord of the Rings (Bakshi)
• 4. The Two Towers (Jackson)
• 5. Hunt For Gollum (Chris Bouchard)
• 6. The Return of the King (Jackson)
• 7. An Unexpected Journey (Jackson)
• 8. The Hobbit (Rankin-Bass)
• 9. The Return of the King (Rankin-Bass)
• 10. The Desolation of Smaug (Jackson)
• 11. The Battle of Five Armies (Jackson)

I ordered them by my preference of viewing. I added the fan films because they have some heart behind them if not the budget, and are a preferrable watch to me despite some shortcomings in them. Of the forst three LotR P.J. Boyens & Co movies, they have to be the EE, and even then, I can usually only stomach Fellowship, with a fast forward through the Arwen part. I admire the Bakshi attempt, and love the orcs in it. The faux-Viking Boromir and the Robin Hood Strider was a bit much. but I could accept the Disney Princess Galadriel. And at least it had Glorfindel in it. That said, except for the 1st one on occasion, I don't usually go out of my way to watch any of them.

Originally Posted by Morthoron

In the context of not wanting to watch them ever again, I wouldn't necessarily call it an overstatement. There's any number of great films I'll watch yearly - I cringe even when I am randomly clicking by a LotR film with my TV remote.

I agree. I will give one of the Jackson movies until the first commercial break should I find it on free-to-air TV, if only to remind myself how crap the screenplays are.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Snowdog

I admire the Bakshi attempt, and love the orcs in it. The faux-Viking Boromir and the Robin Hood Strider was a bit much. but I could accept the Disney Princess Galadriel. And at least it had Glorfindel in it.

And Arwen does not speak! If only Liv Tyler....

[Pervinca Took]

It *sort* of had Glorfindel in it. But Aragorn insisted on calling him Legolas, and *he* insisted on going on the Quest with them!