A good one... with awful scenes, with brilliant scenes

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 2002)

A good one... with awful scenes, with brilliant scenes.... I try to make it short and just point out some examples. -Brilliant: the short sequence where the camera points to the dead elve in the marshes, Frodo looking at him, then falling down in the marshes. the elve looks like lying their for centuries, and frodo seems so lone and lost in the dead marshes surrounded by the ghosts -Awful: the trees look like a bad, bad cgi, they are like puppets and the lighting makes them more unrealistic, felt like effects from the eighties, what PJ tried to avoid -Brilliant: Gollum is by far most the best animated character i´ve ever seen, his acting is only matched by Ian Mckellen -Awful: the whole sequence involving Faramir, it feels like this has been directed in the end, then just put in, I cannot believe his sudden understanding about what the ring means and what is Frodo´s task is about -Brilliant: The overall mood that´s caused by the danger of the ring and sauron, everything seems so dark and on the edge to destruction,in FOTR it was a funny adventure, in TTT it seems like it´s just about a question of time that sauron is again Lord of the middle-earth and that the ring will go where it belongs -Awful: " They´re not like orcs, these are Uru´Khai" Oh thank god, it means they´re total idiots, let´s bring the children out to kick their asses, I accept that Aragorn, Gimli and legolas are heroes, but they felt like Mangaheroes, fighting their enemies without looking at him, this isn´t about skills, this is complete nonsense -Brilliant: Gollum calling Sam a stupid fat hobbit ( i also felt that, too much elvenbread i guess) -Awful: the olympic Uru´Khai. I´m a fan of black humor, but not in a movie that tries to be believable, that is a bad bad, scene
Overall i liked it and i will rent it one dvd to watch it again, i´m also very glad that lee has finally taken part in a movie that isn´t B-Class, coming from Germany i guess i won´t see such a movie in the next 200 years made in Germany ( hehe...it´s sad to, be honest), i´m waiting for rotk desperately ´cause it relates more on characters, TTT is great, but far from perfect