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| Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Lancashire
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| Re: Best of the three? Still can't believe that Jackson didnt film the 'proper' ending for the extended version Without the Scourging of the Shire , LOTR loses much of it's impact imho - It just goes to prove how brilliant an author - correction , story-teller Tolkein was - how many other authors would think , or dare , to use the seemingly climatic finale at Mount Doom only as a precursor to the hobbits' poignant return to the Shire? |
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| monkey is magic Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Rhondda Cynon Taff
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| Re: Best of the three? FOTR was the film I enjoyed the most, The scenes in Moria, Borromir's death scene, Whether top all stood out for me. Perhaps because it was the first film. The ending of ROTK was a bit of a let down. Couldn't stop laughing when Aragorn burst into song at his coronation. |
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| loony Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: West Sussex
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| Re: Best of the three? Quote:
I have to say I though TTT was fantastic, probably the best afaic, although the spectacle of the battles in ROTK was phenomenal. In the cinema, when the camera pans over the wall to give you your first glimpse of the might of the army against them, there was a simultaneous 'holy ****' from just about everyone. | |
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| Devourer of Books Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Arizona
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| Re: Best of the three? My favorite was The Return of the King. Can't remember which book was my favorite while reading them (it's been awhile) but I thoroughly enjoyed the last movie. Everything seemed to work perfectly together, special effects, acting, music, etc. |
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| Writer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Oxfordshire
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| Re: Best of the three? I haven't read the whole thread - just Brian's initial comment and this page - but I was so surprised I had to say that I liked TTT far and away the best of the three. We had finished with all the introductions, the fellowship was well established, though two lost, and we had all the lovely Rohan stuff - my absolute favourite part of the books. And as for the battle of Helm's Deep, nothing in ROTK matched it for me. And together with many others I missed the Scouring (not "scourging" please note) of the Shire from the last film, together with the proper ending of Saruman and Wormtongue. So, although there are wonderful moments in the other films - House of Elrond, Moria, death of Boromir ("My brother, my captain, my king" - not a dry eye in the house), the Argonath in the first one and everything to do with Faramir and Eowyn, the Paths of the Dead and Gollum in the third - it's the Two Towers for me all the way. Mary |
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| Run away! Run away! Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cambridgeshire
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| Re: Best of the three? TTT for me, the Battle for Helms Deep is brill and then there are the Ents (the last march of the Ents music is my second favourite. Although there is the whole charge of the Rohirrim and the sheer scale of the Minas Tirth battle, are great, the actual siege of Minas Trith itself doesn't quite live up to the scale they set it up for, IMHO. It's pretty close (although The Fields (from the Rohirrim charge, is my single favourite song, atm) |
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