Name one fucking flaw.
Protip: you can't.
>>70044985
No Tom Bombadil
>>70044985
It isn't Fellowship of the Ring
>>70044985
Not enough diversity
>>70044985
The Legolas shield/skateboard scene. I don't hate it, but it's the only flaw I can think of.
>>70045025
Aren't you glad they fixed that with the Hobbits
THE HORN OF HELM HAMMERHAND WILL SOUND ONE LAST TIME
Ents in the second movie were kinda boring
That's actually the only flaw I can think of
Still my favorite movie (the 3 count as 1) of all time
>>70045115
>(the 3 count as 1)
>>70044985
Actually now that you say it, why is there a huge fucking moon in the backround?
What the fuck is the point of that?
>>70044985
thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESnMzQZubKg
>>70044985
When the fucking forest walks up to helms deep and kills the remaining orcs in the EE edition.
Fucking stupid.
>>70045215
Blame Tolkien
The Two Towers is the most underrated LoTR movie.
Saruman was cool
Rohan has the best music
Rohan has the best aesthetics
Uruk-hai armor is cool as fuck
Best battle that isn't overly saturated with CGI
Best supporting characters
Best memes
Best menus
Best soundtrack
Best fucking everything
I fucking love this movie so goddamn much
>>70045085
That bit is GOAT you lunatic.
>>70045215
Yeah thats canon though but at least Jackson was still sane enough to know he should cut it from the theatrical release
>>70044985
It diverges a lot from the book for no good reason, and the fucking Legolas skateboard
>>70045261
I KNOW YOU RETARD
FELL DEEDS AWAIT
>>70045410
The Elves turning up at Helms Deeps out of fucking nowhere, still triggers me today.
Totally didnt need to be included
>>70045473
I dunno man, dat fucking horn and music
>>70045473
I want /tg/ and its irrational hatred of Elves to go. Now.
>>70045240
Indeed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6XicBBN1l4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFfivXaJM9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6C8SX0mWP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLvIFRNbqOs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnYbsAVdkYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHFm94-zdYs
>>70045473
It also completely changed the whole Theoden storyline for no good reason.
I blame that dyke screenwriter for that
>>70045509
Who the fuck said anything about hating elves? The guys in Lorien were busy fending off an invasion form Dol Guldur at the time, they could not send a contingent to help the Rohirrim
>>70045473
it was epic nonetheless. u know u loved it
>>70045473
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqIMhrS14B0
>implying this wasn't pretty hype
>>70045157
It's probably more visually interesting than the brown cloudy background on the rest of the cover.
>Theoden being literally possessed instead of being just bambloozed by Wormtongue
>the evacuation of Edoras
>"Oh no Aragorn is dead" drama
>Elves at Helm's Deep
>Faramir becoming a whole other character
>the whole detour to Osgiliath
It's a good movie but the worst adaptation, at least the changes in TFotR had a function in the economy of the movie, here most were just nonsensical
>>70045473
Eh, they didn't really do anything except get themselves killed.
In the end it was the Rohirrim + Aragorn leading the charge to buy the women and children time to escape and the reinforcements that actually drew the Uruk-hai fucking shits away were all Rohirrim.
>lotr cucks getting insecure of the upcoming medievalkino that will btfo their beloved """"franchise""""" in all directions so they keep spamming their shitty threads 24/7
>>70045818
>le metzen will save cinema meme
ok
>>70044985
LotR are most comfiest threads. Makes me wanna watch the whole damn trilogy again
You know what, I'm going to do that right now. whats the best version to binge on? Extended?
please reply.
>>70046060
Extended, always.
>>70044985
not nearly enough actors of color #middleearthsowhite
The CGI hasn't aged so well in places and was never that good compared to Fellowship.
It's strange to be on an online forum and not see constant ELVES IN HELMS DEEP.
>>70045191
>2:14
BEST FUCKING PART
>2:41
>Light Shines
>Gandalf Roars
>mfw
>>70046060
>fotr
Extended
>ttt
Theatrical.
>rotk
Extended.
the entire plot of Aragorn's fake death, as if anyone fucking believed he was going to die that cheaply. I watched LotR with the most naive of people and even they went "he's not really dead is he" after that scene. By extension, Aragorn being the one who finds out about the 10 gazillion orcs marching towards Helm's Deep, as if Theoden doesn't have any scouts at all that would spot such a colossal force.
That's such a minor detail in a fantastic film though. FotR is a masterpiece, TTT is near-perfect, and RotK is great but not as good as the other two.
TTT has both second the most emotional scene in the trilogy for me (the Elves coming to Helm's Deep as a military-style version of the Lothlorian theme plays) and the best song (not composition) of the entire trilogy, Gollum's song, which should have won that fuckingOscar if the world was just. All respect to Eminem, Lose Yourself is his last good song, but it doesn't fucking compare.
>>70045818
7/10, not bad actually
>>70046068
>>70046216
Thanks
Why didn't they fly the eagles to mount doom?
>>70046253
Because dude lazy writing excuse lmao.
>>70046131
FotR had equally bad CGI, it's just that there was much less of it since there were no big battles yet. The troll looks dreadful, though really the movie is so good that I don't care at all.
>>70046216
But TTT has by far the best EE only scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAy-o5rgoCw
>>70045191
>>70045191
VICTORYYYYY
WE HAVE VICTORYYYY
>>70046253
Gandalf was the only one who was friends with the Eagles but then he died while they were trying to get to them. Before he falls in Moria he says "Fly, you fools" As in literally Fly on the eagles to Mount Doom.
>>70046276
Is that really an EE scene? If I rewatched TTT, it would feel incomplete without this scene.
>>70046276
Boromir and Faramir was such a nice dynamic, and seeing how much Boromir loved his brother was so sweet. Boromir was such a based character, especially how much of a good hearted person he was, all he wanted was to protect his people.
>>70046333
Yep. I'll never be able to rewatch the trilogy in their theatrical versions, even Rotk, which has a lot of bullshit added to it.
>>70046223
the entire plot of Aragorn's fake death, as if anyone fucking believed he was going to die that cheaply. I watched LotR with the most naive of people and even they went "he's not really dead is he" after that scene.
That wasn't necessarily its purpose, but rather to show all the others love for Aragorn and him having a bautiful shot with Brego and finding the Uruk army, which contributed to the plot. It also put Aragorn in a fucking badass light since he would still continue without any rest even when falling from a cliff and nearly dying.
>>70046530
>It also put Aragorn in a fucking badass light since he would still continue without any rest even when falling from a cliff and nearly dying.
>>70046530
It also made him look rugged as fugand hot
>>70046275
I noticed two things watching fellowship: the backdrop where gandalf is trapped on Orthanc had a cloud covering the moon and it doesn't change or move at all. It's not a huge deal but it's always bugged me.
That, and the darkness scenes just before the Balrog. The shadows and the weird flatness from the poorly done lighting. They have shadows and stuff and idk. It just looked off and it pulls me out of the scene every time.
>>70046587
>the backdrop where gandalf is trapped on Orthanc had a cloud covering the moon and it doesn't change or move at all
It was probably a painted matte, if I recall they used quite a lot of them in LotR
>>70046552
He never gives up and that scene showed it. True badassness.
velly gud but y r sam & frodo so fucking gay
>>70046253
Because they're divine beings and can't be just fucking called upon whenever like flying mounts.
>>70046253
Sauron would've seen them and stopped them
>>70046253
Gandalf knew that after 5 minutes of flying with the ring, the eagle would have killed Frodo and put it on their talon.
>>70045157
Reference to 9/11 attacks.
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How the fuck did peter jackson become goerge lucas? Those two created one of the finest kino in the history, and when they figured they need to make more movies, they turned out to be a complete pile of shit. Is this some fantasy/scifi desease or what. i was putting so many hopes for Hobbit and its such a fucking cgi circlejerk like phantom menace it pains to even talk about it.
>>70048365
I think the power gap is even larger for LOTR and the Hobbit than Star Wars.
>>70048290
I wonder if people were butthurt about the name when TTT came out. It was only a year after 9/11
>>70048365
>>70048405
I agree. George Lucas only directed the first Star Wars, and that's a 8/10 at best.
Jackson directed all 3 LOTR movies, and each one is 10/10. It's mindboggling how much the Hobbit movies sucked
>>70048365
Well, they were different cases.
Lucas overestimated his own skills as a writer and director while Jackson got stuck having to direct two whole movies with to time of pre-production whatsoever which got turned into three by the studio halfway into production, despite the book hardly having any material for it.
I can't say if Jackson's cgi circlejerk was a result of saying "fuck it" and letting the Visual Effects artists handle everything or if he truly became a hack, because I think he ended up realizing that he could achieve the same results of going to the top of a mountain in the middle of New Zealand or shooting three months of battle under the rain with simply having one or two actors wriggling their swords around at nothing in a greenscreen set.
>>70045240
>best menus
Meat being back on them would've helped
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>>70048771
>>70048952
They did this to avoid building two identical but differently sized sets. I wonder if in LotR they actually built two sets.
Casting Eliza Douchekoo as Froyo
>>70045006
Tom wasn't in the two towers.
Did faramir try to take the ring in two towers? I know even jackson admits he made a bad call on that.
Probably the tacked on subplot about aragorn and the warg and getting lost, or some minor changes to the entsigorney.
>>70049029
>I wonder if in LotR they actually built two sets
They did, LotR used the green screen very sparingly
>>70049105
They did have to use green screen for plenty of the size difference stuff in Bag End.
>>70049105
It's amazing how much effort can go into one trilogy and so little into the other.
The excuse that Jackson had no pre-production time doesn't work with me, I'm sure he had enough gravitas to change the climate of that deal and if he didn't then he shouldn't have signed to make the bloody thing.
>>70049029
They did it because forced perspective wont work when you film in 3D.
>>70049189
it was really a huge error
should have been del toro like originally planned. a different vision and feel completely instead of a cartoony, hollow mess that was the resulting afterbirth of a somewhat familiar jackson middle earth
>>70049083
I don't get why people were so against film-Faramir. I thought his movie version was boss, book version was too pure. He had completely legitimate reasons to try and take the ring, yet he saw reason and ultimately was the better man than Boromir when it came to fighting the corruption of the ring.
>>70049235
Yeah, I would have preferred del Toro, he's already proven to be able to make a good fairytale movie
Plus he would have only made two movies. Altough I bet a shitton of autists would sperg out over how different in tone and style it would be compared to LOTR
>>70049187
My bad, I should have said that they used CGI very sparingly
>>70049296
>implying he would have been able to tell the studio off
>>70048365
George was always a hack, his ex-wife should be the one credited for making the original trilogy great.
Hobbit was fucked from the beginning (Originally a Del Torro vision and Pre-Production hell) and Jackson came on last minute. Then he got screwed over with the studio demanding a third movie half way through filming.
BUT even if PJ had his prep time with the Hobbit, I don't think it would've been a masterpiece as LotR. I don't know why I think this, but making the LotR in the late 90s/early 200s, was a perfect time for it.
>>70049640
>his ex-wife should be the one credited for making the original trilogy great.
Also the production designers, John Williams, the Visual Effect artists and Ben Burtt
Without how Star Wars looks and sounds it's just a generic hero's journey movie.
>>70048365
Jackson wasn't the first choice to direct the Hobbit movies. Also, studio interference is rumored to have played a big role in why they turned out to be stretched thin pieces of CGI excrement
>>70048365
The crazy thing is that the original LOTR trilogy came out around the same time as the SW prequels. The restraint, with regard to CGI, in the LOTR movies is part of their greatness, especially when compared to the prequels. And yet, over a decade later, they didn't learn anything from Lucas's fuck up. They even added shitty looking CGI characters. The albino orc is one step above Jar Jar
>>70049719
Exactly this aswell.
>>70049268
I agree, I thought the film made faramir more interesting
>>70050379
Hobbit trilogy is the textbook definition of a rushed job, lad.
>>70044985
It's the most stagnant entry in the trilogy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liCMDsjrCU8
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