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What's he in the book?
Haaaaaaaaaa-hahahahahahahahahaaaaa. Oooohhhhhh...No.Fellowship is good, the extended cut of Two Towers is excellent, the third hasn't got enough endings. All three have aged quite badly.You need to see yourself some Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, Klimov, Herzog. Hell, the portions of Caddyshack that focus on something other than Danny's love life and college plans are better.
Massive no from me.
Did they ever find out who the Lord of the Rings was?
Alan
Godawful accent. And, well, just no. He's great himself, fabulous in The Ice Storm for example, but as Frodo Baggins? It's casting designed to make the film appeal to the American demographic. Sorry but this part required an English voice, not an American voice.edit to add - I mean it's like a scar all over the whole set of movies. 'We will go through the mynes'. It's almost as stupid as having the rest of the hobbit party being a bumpkin, a Scot, and an Irish. Just fuck off Peter.
Is there any skellington soldiers in this
I remember seeing the Two Towers in the cinema when I was about 11 and seeing Gandalf fight the Balrog whilst falling down the chasm was mindblowing
The first one is very good. Better than any of the Star Wars but not as good as Raiders of the lost ark.
Good shout from biggy mentioning the Indiana Jones flicks. I watched them again a few months back and they are bloody great - as trilogies go, Indy is near the top of the totem. Great fun.
they take themselves pretty seriously rather than being full of meta references that basically serve to tell the viewer "your not a geek for watching this!".
Raiders of the Lost Ark is the greatest movie (as in popcorn flick) ever made, in my estimation. Virtually faultless and the very embodiment of pure adventure. Despite the crossover presence of John Rhys-Davies; The Lord of the Rings... not so much. The lack of Nazis having their faces melted off doesn't help matters much either.
There's a lot of artistry in the films which is ignored by their detractors.
The big problem with the Lord of the Rings films is Peter Jackson is a middling director who got shitter the more he indulged CGI, to the point where he lost touch with any kind of grounded filmmaking technique and got lost in overusing terrible, computer game like cgi cameras. You can create whatever nonsense you want in CGI but once the camera is fake too, zooming in and ut of your charactesa rseholes in a way that is obviously impossible, all sense of reality goes down the toilet and the film flops into farrago of empty noise and whooshing.
The big problem with the Lord of the Rings films is Peter Jackson is a middling director who got shitter the more he indulged CGI, to the point where he lost touch with any kind of grounded filmmaking technique and got lost in overusing terrible, computer game like cgi cameras. You can create whatever nonsense you want in CGI but once the camera is fake too, zooming in and ut of your charactesa rseholes in a way that is obviously impossible, all sense of reality goes down the toilet and the film flops into farrago of empty noise and whooshing.For the same reason, King Kong is one of the worst films I've ever seen and Jurassic Park is one of the best. The former does everything stupid and wrong you could possibly do with CGI, like a child let loose in a sweet shop, whereas Spielberg's judicious, artful and limited use of it way back in 1993 has still never been bettered.
