Post by DaBomb on Mar 21, 2004 12:19:53 GMT -5
Seriously. I found Return of the King to be lower in quality and entertainment value than the Two Towers.
There were cutting problems right through to the end in ROTK; it seemed the scenes were seldom pieced together, and were rather just placed in order. There was no continuity in some scenes because of this, so you would be switching between character paths without any link between the two.
Secondly, Peter Jackson totally destroyed Minas Tirith. The special effects were absolutely fantastic, and Pellenor fields was exceptional, but the addition of Isildurs ghosts was a poor way to end the battle. What made this worse was the fact that there was little build up to the seige on the white city; in TTT, you have Theoden with his long speech, Gandalf's speech about what little chance Rohan has at Helm's Deep, Gimli's lines about the fact that they are against deadly Uruk-Hai, and Legolas, who complains they will all die.
These lines truly imporved the battle, because you believed the immense importance of it. At Minas Tirith, you lack that.
The film also did not pull on the emotions. The Two Towers had the internal conflict of Smeagol, a saddening couple of scenes, but on ROTK you don't have the same feel. Whether or not the music did not fit the saddening theme, or whether the dialogue did not give much of a reason for all that crying (in ROTK), I don't know.
Finally, the ending was not especially brilliant. True, it was good to show an epilogue, so that we would know what happened to all concerned in the Lord of the Rings, but it dragged on too long. We did not need the final scene when Sam returns home, nor most of the scene when Frodo, Bilbo and Gandalf leave for Valinor. The epilogue of Frodo seemed too long, while we see nothing of Gimli nor Legolas.
So, all in all, the Two Towers was slightly better than Return of the King, though the latter will still a marvelous end to a marvelous trilogy.
There were cutting problems right through to the end in ROTK; it seemed the scenes were seldom pieced together, and were rather just placed in order. There was no continuity in some scenes because of this, so you would be switching between character paths without any link between the two.
Secondly, Peter Jackson totally destroyed Minas Tirith. The special effects were absolutely fantastic, and Pellenor fields was exceptional, but the addition of Isildurs ghosts was a poor way to end the battle. What made this worse was the fact that there was little build up to the seige on the white city; in TTT, you have Theoden with his long speech, Gandalf's speech about what little chance Rohan has at Helm's Deep, Gimli's lines about the fact that they are against deadly Uruk-Hai, and Legolas, who complains they will all die.
These lines truly imporved the battle, because you believed the immense importance of it. At Minas Tirith, you lack that.
The film also did not pull on the emotions. The Two Towers had the internal conflict of Smeagol, a saddening couple of scenes, but on ROTK you don't have the same feel. Whether or not the music did not fit the saddening theme, or whether the dialogue did not give much of a reason for all that crying (in ROTK), I don't know.
Finally, the ending was not especially brilliant. True, it was good to show an epilogue, so that we would know what happened to all concerned in the Lord of the Rings, but it dragged on too long. We did not need the final scene when Sam returns home, nor most of the scene when Frodo, Bilbo and Gandalf leave for Valinor. The epilogue of Frodo seemed too long, while we see nothing of Gimli nor Legolas.
So, all in all, the Two Towers was slightly better than Return of the King, though the latter will still a marvelous end to a marvelous trilogy.
