peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2018 09 14 TheLordOfTheRings

The Lord of the Rings movies.

Fri, Sep 14, 2018./noise/movies | Link

Specifically the three extended editions over three nights for the second time. The first one promises more than the second two deliver. The bits lifted from Tolkien are not great but the non-canonical parts are a lot worse. The dialogue and asides-to-camera are occasionally comically risible, as is some of the CGI; even the actors playing hobbits look uncomfortable at the King's coronation. I got bored with the endless battle scenes. It's epic, but nowhere close to the classics.