Your rating of TTT

[GreyShadow]

Note: It is really going to be interesting to see all three movies back-to-back non-stop. I hope someone does them on the big screen 9 hours.

There is a movie marathon here in Australia tonight for the first 2 parts. I'd go see it except for the 1130pm start time.

I'd be too tired to enjoy it from start to finish. Now if it was on during the day, that's another matter.....

Cheers

 

[Bagpuss]

I gave it an 8.

I was disappointed by how Eowyn roll seemed underplayed, she gets the drop on Aragorn (admitted probably because he let her), and he compliments her on her use of the sword, and uses the term Shieldmaiden.

She goes on to explain how the women of Rohan learn to defend themselves, just because you don't carry a sword doesn't mean you can't die by one. Then she and the other Rohan women are left to hide in the caves, when surely they would have been better standing on the walls helping the defence? They must have stood at least as good a chance as all the kids in the ill sized armour.

I thought Fararmir, didn't play the temptation of the ring enough he seemed to shrug it off without really showing any sign of wanting it for himself. He just seemed to be following his father's orders to bring it in. Boromir did a better job of showing the charm of the ring in the first film. Perhap's it was because he saw the effect it was having on Frodo, which was played up al lot more in this film.

Aragorn's fake death wasn't really necessary but I'm glad they used it to work in the scenes with Arwen and Elrond. The elves turning up at Helm's Deep was cool.

After Gandalf's battle with the Balrog the start of the film was a little slow, but overall I thought the pacing was pretty good.

 

[KnowTheToe]

I gave the movie a 10. It is important that a ten is not perfect, but it is the highest rating. This is not gymnastics or figure skating where you remove points for every error.

If you never give a movie a 10 or have not seen a movie you thought was better than an eight, then your scale is really from zero to eight. You should pick your favorite few movies and give them a ten, your least favorites a zero and everything else falls inbetween. Consider yourself educated

 

[Ranger REG]

I have a question for anyone here: Can you honestly rate a movie without comparing to the literary work it was adapted from? Is that a necessary criteria or factor? And if so, how big of a factor do you take that into account for giving your rating?

 

[NiTessine]

I gave it 10. It is a pretty darn near perfect movie, like the original Star Wars trilogy and FotR.

And Ranger REG... Yeah, I can. I rate a movie, not an adaptation of a book. As an adaptation of a book, the movie quite frankly wasn't very good, but as a movie... 'twas great. Books are difficult to faithfully translate to the silver screen, because in a book, you can be much more complicated than on film, and you won't be restricted by money or length. It's tricky to incorporate what the characters are thinking and the occasional delve into the world's history in a movie and do it well. So, I rate them as different entities. And the book, by the way, rates eleven.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I have a question for anyone here: Can you honestly rate a movie without comparing to the literary work it was adapted from? Is that a necessary criteria or factor? And if so, how big of a factor do you take that into account for giving your rating?

I think you can, I know I try to. It is harder than many think, you don't think about the book.

A book uses words to build an event, words have different meanings, people have different interpretations and as such see different things in writing.

A movie has to take the concept and then uses pictures and dialog to build the same event, it is based on the directors interpretation.

You just have to ask yourself if the movie follows the story, is it true to the story?

 

[Bagpuss]

I have a question for anyone here: Can you honestly rate a movie without comparing to the literary work it was adapted from? Is that a necessary criteria or factor? And if so, how big of a factor do you take that into account for giving your rating?

I have I never read the Two Towers, which makes it the only way I can rate it.

 

[Dinkeldog]

I gave it a 9. That's probably just because it's the middle of the trilogy. I hate the book, btw. The first half is fine, but the slogging through the second half. Ugh. No wonder everyone thinks Faramir is their favorite character. In reality, he's bland, but it's the first thing that's actually happened in the second half of the book for over a hundred pages, so everyone's view is skewed.

I have no issues with the artistic direction Jackson took to describe characters or heighten suspense. It's just the middle book, and I really want to get to the last book where the cool stuff all comes out.

 

[Templetroll]

I have a question for anyone here: Can you honestly rate a movie without comparing to the literary work it was adapted from? Is that a necessary criteria or factor? And if so, how big of a factor do you take that into account for giving your rating?

Sure. It is entertaining to discuss the differences but that doesn't affect the rating of a movie as a movie. Read "The Maltese Falcon" and then watch the movie; I prefer the Bogart version since it is gritty. Great book, great movie, but different.

LotR: tTT was excellent. FotR was a little better but both were immensely enjoyable. I think it interesting that so many people who haven't read the books have gone to see the movies. I think that is testament to excellent film-making.

 

[Welverin]

I have a question for anyone here: Can you honestly rate a movie without comparing to the literary work it was adapted from? Is that a necessary criteria or factor? And if so, how big of a factor do you take that into account for giving your rating?

I could, but why would I?

As an adaptation the movie has to be compared to the original format. How succesfully the movie creators translate the original to the screen needs to be taken into account, after if you're not going to stick as closely to the original as you can why are you adapting it?