LOTR 3


If any of you have ever been to International Movie Database, I found that one of the members there has perfectly said what I have been trying to say. I'll post the 2 paragraphs that I find the most important and I'll post THE LINK for the rest. I hope this summarizes my problems with the new movies. And thanks to urb1972 for this truly accurate little summary.


"When a director forges a world for you, instead of a film, it's a little different. I was five years old when Star Wars premiered in London, where I was growing up. When I left the cinema, my life had, to some degree, been permanently altered. George Lucas had activated something in my head - a fantasy vision had been created that allowed me, and others who felt the same after seeing it, to see beyond the parameters of the film itself, to the whole world, or even universe, that it served merely as a snapshot of.

A New Hope, or Star Wars as we called it back then, was a perfect film. It had action, love, hope and courage - the old bastions of any good movie, which had perhaps become a little forgotten with the realist, oscar-hunting, star-vehicles of the same time. It was refreshing. It wasn't for kids our age, nor its two sequels - we were always a little on the young side for them, and we knew and respected that. It gave the films a powerful edge...they stood for quality."
 
Thankfully, I cut most of this analytical crap out of my life. If I enjoy something and it makes me happy then it's good. If I hate it and it pisses me off then it's bad.

If I enjoy two completely different things then hell, it's all good.
 
thebluenewt posted on Dec 23 2003 at 02:14 PM said:
That army of undead though... looked kind of studid didn't it?
Ridiculous. Might as well as said 'Sauron's about to attack Gondor after Minas Tirith, so get y'all dead asses down to Mordor and storm the tower!"

Since they're invincible and all-powerful, Sauron would fall extremely quickly. You saw how they swept through the invading Orcs... IMHO a slight plot hole. As for how it -looked- ... well I think it was done fairly well but the king should never have spoke (he didn't in the book).
 
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Rico posted on Dec 24 2003 at 08:27 PM said:
thebluenewt posted on Dec 23 2003 at 02:14 PM said:
That army of undead though... looked kind of studid didn't it?
Ridiculous. Might as well as said 'Sauron's about to attack Gondor after Minas Tirith, so get y'all dead asses down to Mordor and storm the tower!"

Since they're invincible and all-powerful, Sauron would fall extremely quickly. You saw how they swept through the invading Orcs... IMHO a slight plot hole. As for how it -looked- ... well I think it was done fairly well but the king should never have spoke (he didn't in the book).
yeah, but the dead guys were not interested in fighting to topple Sauron. Aragorn had to release them from the curse after that battle, as they had regained their "honour" and therefore could not be used again in the future. It was not their battle.
 
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Thankfully, I cut most of this analytical crap out of my life. If I enjoy something and it makes me happy then it's good. If I hate it and it pisses me off then it's bad.
Yeah, same here; I try to enjoy a movie while I'm watching it the first time, and to analyze after. However, SW Ep. II really pissed me off the 1st time I saw it, and I haven't seen the entire movie since (aside from once when I saw some isolated scenes at a friend's house who had the DVD... that's when I began analyzing just WHAT it was that pissed me off so much the first time I saw it).

IMO, the editing in the new SW films is very bad; they have no structure, just one action scene after the next. Like the 1st Terminator. <_<
 
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