Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK

Dee Arsmith writes "Peter Jackson's special-effects company Weta Digital has just taken delivery of 588 IBM blade servers, each with two 2.8 gigahertz Intel Xeon processors. Seven racks of IBM blade servers have been added to Weta's existing 15-rack server cluster to make up the largest Intel-based high- performance computer site in the world with more than 2000 linked processors. The cluster will be used to render the frames drawn by the animators to complete the final installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King."

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But considering the Two Towers

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Considering how badly they mangled the plot of the Two Towers, is it even possible for them to do anything decent with the Return of the King? I doubt it, and don't intend to waste any time on the flick.

High Tech rendering and flashy effects can't make up for the mangled plot. I still wish I'd never seen their grotesque of the Two Towers, and still hope to forget it. (It will happen eventually, but as I read the book shortly before the flick came out, it will be awhile [a year or two] before I can enjoyably read it again.)