Good Movie, Great Adaptation

Rating: 8/10 (28 December 2002)

I hold back on giving LOTR a perfect or excellent rating not because of any special flaws but because of inherent traits mostly. LOTR Two Towers is a good movie that people who don't mind seeing violence should see. However LOTR is not a great movie because it is an adaption of a previous work. While that work was a book, and the director Peter Jackson does change a few things it is not as technically tough to create the content of LOTR as it might have been for the Coen brothers to create Fargo. This is why I like movies Youjinbou by Akira Kurosawa, yes Youjinbou is the correct romanization of the Kanji, better than Gone With the Wind. I will of course applaud Jackson's ability to use special effects, but using special effects as a judge of movie quality on a general scale would tend to modern movies or higher budget movies. Jackson's only other mistake in my mind comes with some of the dialogue that ends the movie it feels a little cliche and off in an otherwise well-paced movie.