LOTR letters to the editor
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Here is a letter to the editor in Newsweek this week about Lord of the Rings:
"I'm glad the overpraised LOTR films are finally coming to an end. The world of these films is dreary and depressing, the "epic" battle scenes look like a bunch of computer pixels fighting one another and the story is, for lack of a better word, boring. I much prefer the other sci/fi fantasy series of today, like the "Harry Potter" films, the "X-Men" franchise or the much maligned but vastly superior "Matrix" films."
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Opinion is opinion, I know.
But don't you think they could have just said "I'm a huge Matrix dork" and been done with it?
ARGH!!
- tfs__mag0
dude he is wrong... Harry Potter is THE BE ALL END ALL of sci-fi fantasy. How can you even argue?
- Mimio0
I don't think they're being fair. The LOTR franchise is really crafted with passion and love. It's so evident.
- unfittoprint0
Revolutions was, without a doubt, the worst piece of shite these eyes have ever seen.
Wish I was still Matrix-challenged.
- unknown0
agree with you Mimio.
You'd have to be a weekly reader of Newsweek to see how much they represent both positive and negative stances on things.
Anyone in their right mind knows that the LOTR battle scenes look stunningly realistic. I was amazed (while watching one of the extended edition features) last night that the Helm's Deep battle scene was ALL CG.
They had thought about using live actors in the foreground, but when they saw the tests it looked great from computer.
- unknown0
and another thing, I don't see how a rational person can call LOTR "depressing and dreary" in comparison to the Matrix.
Both stories have hope as a theme, but LOTR seems equally balanced with despair and light-hearted fantasy.
I didn't even see Matrix 2 and 3, but I don't think I had to to know that it probably has much less positive storyline and interaction than LOTR.
- Mimio0
They're actually fairly similar plots. The reluctant Messiah-type travels through opposition and impossible odds to deliver the masses from destruction.
- unknown0
exactly. and I don't see how the way that plot is delivered in Matrix even comes close to how it's done in LOTR.
Matrix=bullet time gets old quick, we get tired of so many agent Smiths, repetitive fight scenes get old, etc.
LOTR=contines to amaze and we KNOW part 3 is going to bury Matrix 3.
- tfs__mag0
how did i know that this would turn into a matrix bashing thread? haha predictable i tell ya!
- blackspade0
fuk the matrix
peter jackson is the man!
anyone seen anything of his earlyer movies?
go NZ!
- unknown0
okay then :)
we'll turn it into a LOTR praising thread.
It's fantastic!
- brundlefly0
his opinion isnt shared
- tfs__mag0
much better! i will be seeing LOTR the day it comes out...
- blackspade0
hell yea cant wait!
- stimuli0
I can't wait either, although Jackson's decision to cut the climactic Saruman scenes is pissing me off. What's the deal with that?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/enter…
- ********0
jeeez, this guy is kidding! You fall for it?
Hairy Pothead, ROTL, StirWars and the Maitriks all suck!
- sweetasbro0
I actually went to the first LOTR through Alias Wavefront, they had the CG manager talking and showed early demo about the fight scenes etc.
IT'S ALL A.I. not just CG !!!
soldiers were fighting via a proprietry software where they fight by themselves and NOT drawn frame by frame (similar to computer games these days), the early development shown some soilders would wonder off on their own and as the programming got better, they would know what to do on their own - it was insane!
obviously the reviewer knew nothing about it.
- unfittoprint0
that's interesting sweetasbro. any links to this?
- sweetasbro0
http://millimeter.com/ar/video_a…
"In Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers, CG soldiers, created using WETA’s Massive (proprietry) software and rendered in Grunt, react to their environment with patterned responses based on AI technology"
- ER0
when somebody talks about how cool the matrix series was, i stop listening.
(shoulda quit after mitrix 1)
- ********0
LOTR: return of the king is to me probably the most long awaited sequel since weekend at Bernies 2.
I have read LOTR Books 1 and 2 (before the films I might add) but not the third, I feel that now this is not necessary, as I am lazy, but more importantly Peter Jackson has in my opinion captured MR Tolkiens' vision beautifully and has left very little to the imagination, you might argue this to be a bad thing, but my only visual comparison of the books is the shite animation, that, only paints the most vivid of pictures, in which you cannot start to visualise the scale and passion and truth of Tolkiens genius in the creation of middle earth. But I feel Jackson with a little help from beautiful New Zealand have helped to bring into even the youngest viewer a little closer to the magic and wonder of the Lord of the rings adventure.
...I only wish Tolkien was alive to appreciate this work today.
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