'An attrocious movie which is a despicable insult to a wonderful book' - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

02-17-2003, 07:19 AM

It seems to me that there are two ways to talk about the movies - "filmwise" and "tolkienwise". Filmwise, it was somewhat above the hollywood average. Lots of credit especially for the technical achievements, if not so much for good acting jobs (with some delightful exceptions, naturally). <BR>Tolkienwise, however it didn't look too good. I mean, I did not think it was even possible to ignore the whole point of the stories to this extent. <BR>And keeping Tolkien in mind... there seems to be a problem with the image-creating team. Alan Lee as the conceptual designer?! Of course, his work looks "nice and all", but it is completely inconsistent with whatever is described in the books. (Just one quick example to illustrate this: in "The Hobbit", Rivendell is described as the Last Homely House - and although, being "the fair house of Elrond", it must have an exceptional aura to it, none of the texts imply that it should look like a crazed artist's dream of an art nouveau water park...)

02-17-2003, 07:19 AM	#11
Curucalwen Guest Posts: n/a	It seems to me that there are two ways to talk about the movies - "filmwise" and "tolkienwise". Filmwise, it was somewhat above the hollywood average. Lots of credit especially for the technical achievements, if not so much for good acting jobs (with some delightful exceptions, naturally). <BR>Tolkienwise, however it didn't look too good. I mean, I did not think it was even possible to ignore the whole point of the stories to this extent. <BR>And keeping Tolkien in mind... there seems to be a problem with the image-creating team. Alan Lee as the conceptual designer?! Of course, his work looks "nice and all", but it is completely inconsistent with whatever is described in the books. (Just one quick example to illustrate this: in "The Hobbit", Rivendell is described as the Last Homely House - and although, being "the fair house of Elrond", it must have an exceptional aura to it, none of the texts imply that it should look like a crazed artist's dream of an art nouveau water park...)