No crying in the rain - where's Disney?

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

I was going through the films in my mind a couple of days ago and came to think about the sad and dramatic scenes in LotR and how they were done. Now, if Disney had shooted the films, wether they were animated or not, there would be this certain cheesy style to do every battle and death scenes and such. Lots of rain, crying and what's even better - crying in the rain.

If I recall it right, Helm's deep was the only battle scene with this typical "oh, it just starts to rain when the battle begins" phenomenon (besides, it was in the book too) whereas a dramatic scene like Boromir's death happened *gasp* in a sunny weather! I always thought that weather conditions reflecting a scene would emphasize the emotions in a viewing experience, like if something bad happens, then it must be at least cloudy. But what I realized was that a nice weather when Theoden died didn't prevent me from crying, it's quite the contrary.

How much do you think that things like weather, luminousness and such should be paid attention in a movie? Did you miss the "Disney style" or would you like to change something? What are your thoughts?

(ps. I don't intend to mock Disney, most of their films just have this characteristic trait )