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First Review Of Return Of The King
dipfan writes "Newsweek has a first review of the third instalment of LOTR - and gives it two thumbs up: "Judging from a recent Newsweek screening in New Zealand, The Return Of The King is a sure contender for best picture. More than that, it could be the first franchise ever that didn't, at the end of the day, let audiences down--either because of laziness, pretension, greed or other phantom menaces. This is an especially poignant possibility at a time when we can all still smell the smoke from the wreckage of The Matrix." Fingers crossed. There's also an entertaining piece on LOTR gaffes with comments from Peter Jackson (such as 'Well, it's too late to fire anyone,' and 'We didn't think Elijah looked very good with pus')."
it's only right that he be rewarded with the respect that a movie created in his books name will be the best ever
It was tolkiens express wish that his books NEVER be made into a movie.
His daughter sold him out, and his masterpeace hollywoodized for the consumption of the illiterate masses.
Were he to come back to life, I don't think respect is what he would feel.
Personally, I consider the movies to be utterly forgettable, and anyone who sees them before reading the books will miss out on one of the finest examples of fantasy literature ever written. Even if they read it later, the experience will have been forever ruined for them.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
I think the worst mistake people can make when seeing LOTR is to constantly be comparing the films to the book
Well, if Jackson didn't want to film Tolkien's work, he should have named it "Peter Jackson's Dwarf-tossing, wimpy-heir-to-the-throne-that-needs-to-be-slapped fantasy trilogy". Then nobody would compare it to the books. But no, he didn't do that.
When directors make Shakespearian films, while they may play around with scenery and do weird things like setting Richard III in 1930's England, or Hamlet in 20th century America, they know enough not to touch the characters or dialog. Tolkien deserves the same sort of respect. Instead Jackson treated it the same way crappy source material from Stephen King or Tom Clancy is treated by directors -- that is as something where fidelity to the source is of no great matter.
Hi.
You're discussing about how a talking tree was presented onscreen.
- learn to swim.
I love the not-so-subtle allusion to how shitty SW: Phantom Menace was...