eSmith
Veteran
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
| That's cool, you get to pass Helm's deep eh. Truely, that must have beed neat to see.
I gatta ask though, and I hope I'm not upsetting anyone by simply asking the question but here goes:
The first two LOTR movies were spectatular, I've never seen any movie so well done as both of those. it didn't matter who they were up against, nothing touched them for quality.
Then out came the third..... Now, Am I really the only one who picked up on the new technique of zooming into the middle of someones chain mail and jerking the camera around to give the feel of action? This was used over and over again. The battle scenes were not even close to the quality of the Two Towers. Sure, some of it was up the the quality of the other two but there was this feeling throughout the whole ending that they must have been out of time and money, or perhaps were just jaded by the whole three film deal and kinda took some shortcuts out?
I know in the books the ending comes with the help of an army of the undead, but the final battle with the ghost army would have better fit in a "return of the Mummy" or "Scorpian King" Than as the ending of the greatest trilogy we have yet to see.
In the books, the ghosts didn't just walk in and take out the enemy that easily.
Did anyone else find that there was too much grandstanding going on? I understand that they were going for big tear jerking and resounding jubulation at the end but the scene where Aragon confronts the ghost king and they go back and forth with the banter that end's in the statement "I AM the King" and he pulls out the sword to prove it.
They failed to produce the scene properly and it fell flat because of it.
Ten endings is fine but do you really have to drag them out as long as they did. Too much foolishness at the end. Do we really have to watch the long drawn out scene of them taking turns hugging, they could have cut it out completely and not effected the story.
Seriously, there were no other movies out this year so return of the king had no competition but I was so let down after the two previous masterpieces that I'd rather see nobody get the award than to let Peter Jackson feel it's ok to get caught napping so long as everyone else falls short.... Kinda lowering the bar a bit isn't it.
Flame suit on........
uh... uh... Seneca.
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. When they were filming, there were hundreds of people milling around in the middle of the night looking pretty scary 
