The Lord of the Rings trilogy

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Jack's Smirking Revenge

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Very surprised that I couldn't find one of these.

IMO, the greatest and most epic film trilogy to date. It's surprisingly spot on with the books (whereas most book - film adaptations are poor) and the characters are as I imagined them.
I recently bought the extended version of all three (each film is about 45 minutes longer) and while they're outstanding, I'm disappointed at the lack of Tom Bombadil, and that the last couple of chapters of Return of the King were still missed out entirely.
 
The lack of Bombadil didn't disappoint me as such. I found him mildly pointless within the books, and would've reduced the impact of Fellowship during the time he would normally have appeared. However...


The lack of Saruman within the theatrical edition disgusted me. Although not a pivotal point in the plot, it was a brilliant finish for a brilliant series of characters. Seeing the demise of Grima and Saruman at Orthanc was a blow to the groin for me, regardless of time-allowance... they should've implemented the final attack of Saruman and Grima. It would've been beautiful. :'(




That aside, I love this trilogy. A personal favourite to date, and possibly will be for quite some time. I don't think it's overrated at all; despite the numerous complaints of which from critics.
 
I tried watching the first one but never got into it really. Then just hanging out at a buddies house back in HS I tried watching the second one, got lost, fell asleep halfway through it. It's just not something that sparks my interest and I can't get into the series.
 
I do enjoy these movies, yook me about 6 months or so to get through the triliogy book. The actors and special effects were amazing, worth a watch when youre bored lol.
 
If you read the books, then you'd probably appreciate the films a lot more. I know I do.
True, there is dull dialogue every now and then, but most of it is key to the story and it is always followed up by some action to keep you going. :monster:
 
Though I don't think the trilogy is completely top-drawer, they are still three very good films. Considering before the first one came out I was worried it'd be a disaster I was very pleased with the outcome.

There are occasionally a few dull moments but over nine hours that's not too surprising. But the acting is very good (even from Orlando Bloom!), especially Ian MacKellen and the battle scenes are thrilling. Gollum was very well done also. I think they adapted it pretty well considering though the lack of Saruman in the theatrical cut of Return of the King was disappointing.

So it may not be a trilogy I love as much as say Back to the Future or Indiana Jones, but it's still one of the best out there.
 
Pooley said:
If you read the books, then you'd probably appreciate the films a lot more. I know I do.
True, there is dull dialogue every now and then, but most of it is key to the story and it is always followed up by some action to keep you going. :monster:
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I agree. I doubt I would have enjoyed the movies as much if I hadn't read the books.

I have all three extended editions. The one I watch most is The Fellowship of the Ring. I don't know why but I just love that one so much. I think it's because it has Boromir. Sean Bean did such a wonderful job at portraying Boromir as a very conflicted person. Also there was less Legolas. He really irritated me in the films.

The second one was great as well. My main gripe with this one being that they totally screwed up Faramir's character.

I thought the Return of the King was okay but not great. I was really pissed that they left out the scouring of the shire and it got a bit too Hollywood for me. I was really disappointed with the seige of Gondor.
 
Out of the three, I'd say I like The Two Towers the most. I think it's because of the battle at Helm's Deep. That was fucking awesome.

I liked Legolas though. Right from the off, he was probably my favourite character both in the books and films. I think that sometimes his parts were over-written, and made cheesy (such as the backflip after he single-handedly brings down the Oliphaunt in RotK) but overall, I thought his character was really well done.
I agree about Bean playing Boromir though. He's one of the best actors currently I think, and he was a smart choice for the role.
 
Sean Bean was a great choice as Boromir, he made a great "hero" and great villian when he turned for those last few minutes. I love his acting. This is the olny Orlando Bloom role I can actually enjoy and not shudder at his acting. Sir Ian is just amazing throughout, although I prefer him as good old Gandalf the Grey then the White.
 
I love these movies! I have been a fan of them for ages now, I haven't read the books because I simply don't like reading all that much. I might actually get around to it one day so I can compare them with the films. My Mother is a huge fan as well and she has a huge crush on Aragorn lol, it's kind of scary but oh well. We own all three extended versions and love them to death, I really like listening to the commentary sometimes. It's funny and also very interesting to hear about their experiences.

My Brother took myself and my Mother to the second and third film when they came out and he liked to give spoilers which was annoying. Out of the three, my favorite film would be either FOTR or ROTK. Both were extremely exciting, well technically all of them were but those two just stood out for me. They are all really well made films and the actors were fantastic! I agree about Sean Bean, he was incredible and Boromir's death scene was very tearful.

Fabulous films, I haven't watched them again for ages so I probably should do that again sometime! I can't believe how many years have gone by since the release of ROTK! Time certainly flies.
 
I am big fan of LOTR and big fan of Tokien work. And these movies did good justice to the three books.

I was terribly irritated by Legolas in the films, though learned to ignore it, for Legolas in the books is completelly different character. While I love Legolas in the books, I hate Legolas in the films...Jackson turned him into a circus preforming iriitating dumb arse. But hey there is always something to complain about :)

Funny thing is that Boromir's death in the book is kind of less theatrical. He dies, finally realising his errors, repents and that is it, Uruks take the Hobbits and so on we go. If It wasn't for Sean Bean and his fenomenal preformance, Boromir would of not got that noticed. When I was reading the books, I did not care for Borormir a bit. But watching Sean Bean in FOTR , completelly different...he made Boromir. And I do not think that Faramir was ruined at all as a character. The small things here and there yes, and maybe we could off seen more of him and Eowyn ...but the essence of what Faramir represents and what he stands for and his strugle to please his father, that was all there....and donne and presented right.

What I really did not like, was the all the stupid silliness with Arwen being connected to the ring and the rest of the Arwen bs...wth? I guess I was never an Aragorn drawn to person in the first place, so bits with him and her did not touched me to much. When I read the books my favourites where Sam, Frodo, Gandalf and Faramir. I actually did not like Aragorn a lot at all.
 
I actually tried reading the book, but it's very drawn out. I do appreciate the fact that they were able to compact all of the necessary parts into the film. They didn't really overdo anything. I know the movies were long, but...if they had taken everything straight from the book, those fools would have spend 5 hours of screen time sitting around a campfire singing about elves. ^.^
 
I'm a fan of the movies and the books. I'm not as hardcore as other people when it comes to the latter though, 'cause I found the books exciting, splendid, and wonderful, but rather tedious to read. But that's only because I was reading them during school, where tons of work had to be done anyway. :P

Anyways, the movies. Yeah, the movies were spectacular. I loved 'The Return of the King' especially, what with all the battle scenes and all that other jazz. 8D
 
Lorellin said:
I am big fan of LOTR and big fan of Tokien work. And these movies did good justice to the three books.

I was terribly irritated by Legolas in the films, though learned to ignore it, for Legolas in the books is completelly different character. While I love Legolas in the books, I hate Legolas in the films...Jackson turned him into a circus preforming iriitating dumb arse. But hey there is always something to complain about :)
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I'm glad someone agrees with me about Legolas. I found him to be very irritating.

Lorellin said:
Funny thing is that Boromir's death in the book is kind of less theatrical. He dies, finally realising his errors, repents and that is it, Uruks take the Hobbits and so on we go. If It wasn't for Sean Bean and his fenomenal preformance, Boromir would of not got that noticed. When I was reading the books, I did not care for Borormir a bit. But watching Sean Bean in FOTR , completelly different...he made Boromir. And I do not think that Faramir was ruined at all as a character. The small things here and there yes, and maybe we could off seen more of him and Eowyn ...but the essence of what Faramir represents and what he stands for and his strugle to please his father, that was all there....and donne and presented right.
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Yeah, Boromir's death was a lot less theatrical in the book. I haven't read them in awhile but I don't remember liking him nearly as much as I did in the movie. Sean Bean is simply amazing. About Faramir, I was really irritated by how he acted in the TTT. It just seemed out of character for him (bookwise anyway). I thought he was more like the book character in ROTK and I actually enjoyed his character a lot more in that movie. And on the subject of Faramir and his father, I thought those scenes were really well done. John Noble was excellent as Denethor, IMO.

Lorellin said:
What I really did not like, was the all the stupid silliness with Arwen being connected to the ring and the rest of the Arwen bs...wth? I guess I was never an Aragorn drawn to person in the first place, so bits with him and her did not touched me to much. When I read the books my favourites where Sam, Frodo, Gandalf and Faramir. I actually did not like Aragorn a lot at all.
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That whole thing with Arwen being tied to the fate of the ring was really dumb. Arwen wasn't even that major in the book and her character annoyed me in the movies. And I thought Aragorn was okay in FOTR but he was pretty lame in the last two movies. I was never really a huge Aragorn fan when I read the books either.
 
Ok well i skimmed through this thread and didnt see a question about why frodo and gandalf had to leave middle earth on a boat with the elves at the end of ROTK?
 
Because it was their time to leave Middle-Earth. They had no more purpose there, as they had completed their task. Hence Gandalf's "I have returned until my task is done".
 
The whole leaving Middle Earth was essentially Frodo and Gandalf passing on to the next world (or even the next life). In later years Sam, Legolas and Gimli do the same (at least, that is what the appendix of the book says)
 
So frodo and gandalf go kill them selfs? o my. . god >_<
so why didnt sam go with them? he went through everything frodo did
 
No, they left for the land that the Elves originated from. The Greyhavens.
Sam had a family to stay behind for which is why he didn't go too. ANd he didn't go through everything Frodo did, since Frodo was the Ringbearer.
 
Him I kinda understand but i still dont see why he left, he could have been just as happy staying with his friends
 
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