Ushgarak> Yes, it was very wrong to have said something like "set limits on who this place is for". There has been 3 threads that can be consider a place to criticize ROTK. Here is what I found:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f34/t22382.html
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f34/t22605.html
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f34/t22389.html
Maybe not the first link but the other two are places where ppl can express their opinions on why they didn't like ROTK. This is just another repetitive thread don't you think?
It was opened in Movie Discussion and none of those other threads were in any way still extant so no I do not. Considering how many pro-Lotr threads that have been opened up over time I think it is a bit bloody rich to complain.
I do not want to see any more talk abouit how this place is 'only' for people who liked the films. That is NOT so- it is for people who want to talk about them, good or bad. If that makes some angry- I suggest you do not let that out on the threads because that can be considred flaming. The thread was sensibly worded, it was relevant, and all similar threads are long dead.
If you do not like this thread- ignore it. But do not think you have the wherewithall to try and dispose of it.
Keep this on-topic now- further complaints about this thread are not welcome.
I thought the movies progressed and got better after each one, and my least favorite I'd have to say was FotR simply because it was absolutely choppy, (to my opinion) and I think the worst moment of FotR was Galadriel's transformation, (it was a bit overdone) and Boromir's horn....(Um...is that a horn?) .
But I think RotK definately made up for both FotR and it's own.
AS IF IT WAS AS HYPED AS THE MATRIX AND HAD SAME CONCLUSION HOW DARE U SAY THAT. matrrix was hyped heaps and didnt meat expectations whereas rotk had a bit of hype (maybe same as last 2 combined but not as much as reloaded) and people were deffinately satisfied, as if its -NOT THAT GOOD- ITS THE BEST MOVIE EVER -I MEAN HELL WHAT MORE DO U WANT
In my opinion, FOTR was quite good, TT was ok, and most of ROTK was boring. There wa stoo much emphasis on the battles and effects, and not enough on the important bits... Scouring of the Shire is probably THE most important part of the book! Cutting it out made the whole thing a nonsense. I actually fell asleep in ROTK, which is not something I do often. Best film of this year so far I think is Touching the Void... no battles, no big FX, no big budget, but gripping in a way that ROTK was not...
Well in my opinion FotR was absolutely brilliant, TTT was absolutely brilliant and RotK was absolutely brilliant!!!!! FotR is just a classic as obviously it was the first one, TTT is brilliant although my least favourite(which no way means i dont like it, just last in my favourite order) and RotK was just a great finish!! The best of all three 😄! LOTR RULES 😄
Here's my input on this:
When anything, even a film, is so well liked and received by a majority of people, it is inevitable that the self-perceived social malcontent will animatedly dislike it for that reason alone.
This movie is being raved about everywhere, by critics and the mass population (a rare thing) and you're always hearing about it. I think that is why some people who didn't like it that much thinks it's not as good as they expected, thus, they thinks it's overrated. But for me and many others who loved the movie, we do not think it is overrated but that it is instead getting the attention that it rightly deserves. If this movie was hyped less than it is now, I would call that extreme underrating.
But anyway, all that really matters is what you think of it. You obviously didn't like the movies as much as millions of others, and millions of others obviously liked them better than you. It doesn't matter to millions of others if you liked them or not, so it shouldn't matter to you that they did and you didn't.
Originally posted by sauron
kiy fotr kicked ass....choppy...well you would have too make it choppy....who is going to go sit for four hours for fotr...people would have for rotk or TTT because they loved fotr.....
for fotr there wwas no 'build up' to make people who hadnt read the books go to see it
Yeah but when I was watching it, it really seemed choppy but watching the EE really helped and I still love FotR but it isn't my favorite. The appearance of sauron made up for that. 😄
When I first saw it in the theatre, I loved it. By the time I got to the car, I was disappointed with it. Now that it's a few months later, I really don't care for it. The scenes are great, but overall they missed so much from the books. I originally went to go see "The Fellowship of the Ring" to get pissed off. Though I can't say that the movies were that bad, I can say that they screwed up a lot of things. I love the special effects and costumes. They got most of the story right. They could have tried to be more accurate with them though. I would have definately changed Arwen's role. She got a handful of paragraph's in the books. Now she's a major character? There are a few other things I would have added and/or changed.