How Hollywood kill every story

Rating: 1/10 (23 December 2002)

First of all, I must say that I'm a log time fan of Peter Jackson and of Tolkien's trilogy (Oh, and by the way, excuse my English, I'm from Belgium). And I'm soooooo disappointed to see that such a master director (Braindead!!!!!!) has caught so few the spirit of the book. For me it's like the Bible. If you had to put it in film, you have to catch the essence, not to shoot every scene described. And that's the problem with Jackson's first two episodes of the Trilogy: it's a scene after scene movie, you don't have a leading line, unless you've read the books. Well, of course, the special effects are incredible (although I'm not as surprised as with "The Fellowship..."), and the universe showed is incredibly realistic... But don't you think that this is only some make up upon vacuum? And let's not talk about the camera points of view and moves, quasi never justified. (Except the 5 seconds during Aragorn and his horse get up after the fall during the embush of Saroumane's skirmisher Orcs, the camera is sort of shy, hesitating, interesting! Probably the best part of the Trilogy) Except the mono- dialogue of Smeagol/Gollum, which is stolen from the Pixar short which went out with Toy Story 2, the movie is very disappointing...