(Dir. Peter Jackson 2001)
PG-13 *Disclaimer* I have not read the Lord of the Rings books. I read The Hobbit and loved it, but I could never get into the other part of the series. I went into this movie knowing that it was long, but I still wasn't prepared for just how long it was. I ended up watching this film in two sittings and honestly it worked that way. The second half of the movie could honestly be its own film. Typically, I don't care for fantasy movies. I love fantasy books, but there's just something about fantasy in the film media that I don't care for. That being said, I think that this works very well as a film. My issue is that I can never really immerse myself in fantasy movies because there are usually parts that just blatantly look fake. Either super CGI or poor effects, both bug me to the point that I can't really pay attention to the movie. Lord of the Rings is perfectly borders the line of being fantasy but still looking real enough that I can get into the film. (Heads up this is going to be the negative portion of my review) I do think that this film is very overdramatic though. The lines, the cuts, the acting, everything screams drama. I get it, stuff is going down. The amount of close up zoom-ins is frankly hilarious. I swear 90% of this movie is made up of them and the rest are drone shots of them walking. So much walking. I know that there's some in universe reason why they can't, but for the love of God just hop on a giant eagle and spare me the walking. The scenes in Lord of the Rings are gorgeous and beautifully shot, but the editing kills me. From what I can tell these movies have one main issue, they had too much good content. They had so many good shots and that makes it hard to choose between them. So they ended up cramming them all together which compromised the film as a whole. This is especially true of the music. The scores are amazing and perfectly fit their characters and locations, but it never stops. Leaving some scenes quiet would have contributed a lot to the atmosphere. This also would have given the scenes with music a bigger impact.
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Aubrey KirchhoffI'm just screaming into the void and somehow getting graded on it. Archives
April 2018
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