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Best Lord of the Rings movie?

Which is best?

  • The Fellowship of the Ring

    Votes: 10 45.5%

  • The Two Towers

    Votes: 5 22.7%

  • The Return of the King

    Votes: 7 31.8%
  • Total voters
    22
Banquo

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After taking a break, I've recently gotten back into these. They all work quite well. But there is one, to me, that seems to work better than the others. What d'ya think?

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The third chapter, I think, works better as a complete film... and has the added bonus that it provides the climax to the trilogy. As such, the action is that much better, the drama is that much more gripping... and so forth.

Having said that, the final scenes dragged along like a pair of lead testicles. I remember sitting in the cinema - entirey thrilled with the film - but thinking to myself, "man, I was happy for this to end twenty minutes ago."

Maybe in that respects, the first once works better as a single film???
 
The 2nd one was nice. I'd also like to say I watched the 2nd one before I saw the first one (yes, I was heavily drugged and an idiot lol:p) because my friends all wanted to see Two Towers in the Cinema and I tagged along. About a couple months later I saw the first on DVD, which was pretty good in itself.
I saw Return of the King last week on HBO and boy was I bored to death. :p
Prolly lost its novelty for me. Bah.
 
Return of the King. For a while I actually liked TT more, for the awesome battle between the balrog and Gandalf, and the atmospheric siege of Helm's Deep. The extended version of ROTK sold me on the latter, though. Still, ROTK only *just* beats TT in my book.

Oh, and for those of you who loved the movies...the books are better still.
 
I must be a weirdo because I liked Fellowship of the Ring the best. The Shire is my favorite place in Middle Earth and the fireworks scene and Gandalf and Bilbo smoking on the hill and those giant Numenorian statues marking the entrance to Gondor. Also, Return of the King was a little too drawn out and there were a few other flaws that bugged me and the Frodo-Sam-Gollum storyline in TT rather bored me.

The whole trilogy is great though.
 
wow. most of you have given the incorrect answer. the correct answer is The Two Towers. lol. but srsly, it's really hard to pick any of them as best, but imo Peter Jackson ultimately succeeds the most in finding a story with the middle book, the hardest part of any trilogy. anyone that has read the books, knows that he deviates the most from the source material with The Two Towers. the movie has three stories going on at once, the Frodo-Sam portion is significantly truncated, and then there is also a terrific Gandalf story arc. his character goes full circle from 'death' in the movie's intro to his 'redemption,' providing lots of fodder for Christian allegory nuts. the great battle scenes also sell it for me. in the end, though, it's hard to pick any of the movies over the other. filming them all at once was genius, since it kept the quality relatively consistent.
 
The Two Towers was my favorite by far. The Fellowship was just an appetizer, while the Return was just some fancy dessert. The Two Towers is the meat and potatoes of the trilogy.
 
i like the atmosphere of the fellowship of the ring. it's so quiet and cosy. i like the shire and rivendale and having one storyline without too much drama and more quiet time where they can talk peacefully.

the two towers was probably the most enjoyable book though.
 
without recent review (which i'm eager to do soon), i'll say ROTK is my fave (for tambourine man's reasons) and it's marginally better than FOTR (for it's lighthearted start yet grave hints) and TTT is my least favourate. TTT left me feeling like i missed a lot with the shortening of the frodo/sam adventure. The extended ed made up for it quite a bit with the expansion on farimir's background, since the theatrical release made him look like a cunt.

to be revised....
 
The Two Towers bothered me the most because I felt it had the most glaring changes and omissions from the book and that ended up carrying over into RotK. I felt Fellowship was most true to form, aside from the Tom Bombadil section (which I could take or leave, anyway).
 
I liked the fellowship of the rings, how it built up the story and the characters. The second two seemed like a ton of fighting and not a whole lot of plot - still a blast but i'm all about character developement.
 
michael said:
you left out the ralph bakshi one. rotoscope ftw!
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ugh. it's my understanding that through obtaining the LOTR film rights for this cartoon, Saul Zaentz earned $168 million for the Jackson films without lifting a finger.
 
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