Remarkably well done

Rating: Null/10 (23 December 2002)

OK I just got back from seeing it and unlike the first one this one had a much more epic mood, throughout is nothing but extreme battles to save mankind. THe Beginning was amazing ..and the middle was incredible .. the ending was astonishing. The graphics were beyond what your imagination can take you to - certainly a kick in the balls to star wars. The textures the dynamics the realism ... will leave CG freaks like me drooling speechlessly.
The main reason why this movie kicks ass is cause there are three battles going on at the same time at different parts of the country. I loved the pacing of the movie this time, Eisendor got their ass kicked just in just enough time for their last hope to come in. The realism of Gollum takes alot more then just motion capture, and for that I REALLLLY acredit the special effects team and Jason Schleifer since Gollum reminds me of this anorexic bitch I know from school. His role is of a bipolar schizofrenic( split personality) which in some parts is very humorus.For the ENTs, it's pretty obvoius why guardian Trees would fight for their 'kind' but when you get to see battle ......that @#%$ing just owns. There is a specific group of bad guys that took part in the book in the Hobbit (if you've read it) they are called the Goblin Scouts, I wont ruin that part for you, cause that part I was really anticipating how PJ was gonna pull that off.... and yes that blew me away too. Legolas is still a bad ass elf, and Gimli plays a great comical role, Aarogon is becomign more noticed by his people, and Sam still fat yet faithful to his friend that is slowly being consumed by the ring. Excellent plot modification of the sequence of events.:rollin certainly something no one should miss.
For those of you that like to so called 'analyze' the comparison between a book and movie...well analyze this... MOVIES ARENT MADE TO BECOME EXACT DUPLICATES OF THE BOOK. NO ONE CARES WHICH PART THE DIRECTOR MISSED OUT. If its missed out and modified, its done for a perfectly GOOD REASON (ie film time, and broken down story telling for the feeble minded illiterates) If you read the trilogy, GOOD FOR YOU NO ONE CARES. Movies are INTERPRETATIONS. If you are going to judge a movie derived down from a book judge it on how well the director tried to meet percisness and credit its actors, its script, and special effects to enhance the signitured parts of the story interpreted.
::COnsiderations you must take in hand before judging::::
1) NOT ALL PEOPLE READ BOOKS like we do..WE may very well be the last of the literate beings- seeing how the majority youth of the new generation is falling due to television, which is the main part of the general public. This is One reason why the movie has to be well modified without the complex transitions minor events leading to the major events on after the other -- specifically modified so the general audience can have a piece of the fun too (as well as LOTR gurus) with out derailing off-track into the confusion of the true series of events but more or less a main general plot.
For example, Why do you think the high vocabulary filled WALL STREET Journal isnt our daily newspaper? BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE SPEAKS 'Business and the fluctuation of the World's Economy' the main language of Stock marketers-brokers etc.. Face it! Thats just too many 'big' words for the general public, henceforth the reason why the METRO section was created for everyday public newspapers. They dilute such insane high intellectual knowledge into something more convenient and basic for everyone.
2)BUDGET and FILMING TIME- If they were to accurately transfer the ENTIRE book (including the emotional detailed elongated parts to capture the audiences deep emotions and the transitoin parts to explaing the connection of certain events) into a movie, it would be as long as that gay ass DBZ series. Then people will complain that the movie was TOO LONG. ..But wait what if they fit the Entire book into the filming time Peter Jackson provides for each of his movies (3 hours per) for 3 movies ---then many emotional parts would be played too quickly enough for the audience to capture the real feeling for the developement of the characters.(ie Hobbit the cartoon- sucked major ass too @#%$n quick)(book obviously better)
So the main point is.. dont expect too much.
Be happy PJ so far has done a great job of interpretting this epic trilogy from an extraordinarily imaginative point of view. I dont think he's senile enough to pull a 'george lucas' move anytime soon.