Author Topic: Return of the King (Read 2963 times)

Charon · « **Reply #60 on:** December 22, 2003, 03:56:58 PM »

Worthwhile effort. The departures from the book were less irritating than in Two Towers. The Arwen "Havin' my baby" stuff and a few others left me frustrated that Jackson turned the potentially extraordinary into something less. Guess I'll just have to make my own remake one of these days

Charon

DmdNexus · « **Reply #61 on:** December 22, 2003, 04:07:56 PM »

eh! I wouldn't go so far as to say it is the greatest movie ever.

It could use some acting.. it does have great "special" effects.

The content... well it's Tolken.... hardly a story with deep meaning... a lot of Norwegian Mystism and WWII symbolism.

The acting is well... type casted... but that's probably just the genre of the movie....

it's like saying John Wayne was a great actor... without realizing what role did John Wayne ever play?

The answer is John Wayne always played John Wayne in every movie he was ever in.

Same with Clinton Eastwood.... even though he tried to break that mold later on in his career.

Russel Crowe on the other hand was an middle age balding meek man in "the Insider" and a young man in "Gladiator", and a genus/crazy man in "a Beautiful Mind."

That's acting!

Lord of the Rings is Entertaining... but still mindless - hardly a great movie.

Nath[BDP] · « **Reply #62 on:** December 23, 2003, 09:37:53 AM »

i r a genus/crazy man

Sabre · « **Reply #63 on:** December 23, 2003, 01:51:42 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
I'm betting the "scouring of the Shire" will be on the extended version. Remember the vision Frodo had in the mirror of Galadriel? That was the Shire burning... which means it was filmed.

The Time magazine interview with Peter Jackson last month (I think) listed the materials that would be added back into the extended-play DVD release of "Return of the King." In the interview, Jackson specifically talks about the fact that "The Scouring of the Shire" was never filmed. The bad guys in the movie's vision Frodo had were orcs, which were not involved in the "Scouring" chapter in the book. Actually, in the book it was Sam that had a disturbing vision of the Shire in Galadrial's mirror (showing a run-down, industrialized Shire, not a burned down one), but Sam was left out of the movie scene.

However, Sauruman will be given his due in the extended version of ROTK, never fear.