Lord of the Rings predictions thread

[FreshmanBob]

So I'll be hittin the theaters in about 2 days or so, and I'm having a few doubts about the final battle scenes. My reasoning is that in the two towers, they advertised the crap out of seige battle but I have seen 0 ads for any major battles in return of the king. It's gonna kick butt, but how much?

What do you guys think?

[Load SM5]

I'll be seeing it Wednesday. The last ad I saw showed what looked to be a huge field battle. Siege elephants and the works. I'm pretty psyched about it.

[Ironmag]

Even in the first trailer there was a huge battle clip in it. I just think that since it was already advertised for The Two Towers that there is no need to do it in this one as much. All I know is that this movie is longer with many false endings. Midnight showing here I come.

[melster]

Sigh...It's only been 2 years since the first movie came out...50 years since the books came out...and there are some people in this world who still don't know how the trilogy ends. I can't believe it.

And before you flame me, calling this a spoiler would be like calling me a spoiler for telling someone that the Titanic sinks.

[Lopy-slopy]

I've never read the book thanks for spoiling it for me. I'm going to see it tomorow night, so I'm getting phyced.

[Restola]

Originally posted by Lopy-slopy
I've never read the book thanks for spoiling it for me.

The king returns also.

[Wc Keep]

Originally posted by melster
the Titanic sinks.

YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!! IVE BEEN WANTING TO WATCH THAT MOVIE FOR YEARS NOW!!!!!!!!!! THANKS TO YOU I WONT ENJOY IT! jk

sorry but i cant concentrate for long enough to read books that i dont have to read. although i did read stephen kings it on my own.......

[Load SM5]

Originally posted by Wc Keep


although i did read stephen kings it on my own.......

Comic book adaptations don't count.

[wyn1370]

Originally posted by Load SM5


Comic book adaptations don't count.

or cliff notes

[Wc Keep]

i should have expected this coming.

[datapimp69]

Re: Lord of the Rings predictions thread

Originally posted by FreshmanBob
So I'll be hittin the theaters in about 2 days or so, and I'm having a few doubts about the final battle scenes. My reasoning is that in the two towers, they advertised the crap out of seige battle but I have seen 0 ads for any major battles in return of the king. It's gonna kick butt, but how much?

What do you guys think?

from what i under stand when he did the battle at helms deep.

they rendered just over 50,000 objects. it was a great battle

but for return of the kings they rendered over 250,000 objects.

i think it will hands down be the best battle ever put on film

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by melster
And before you flame me, calling this a spoiler would be like calling me a spoiler for telling someone that the Titanic sinks.

LOL!!!

I think the final battle is going to rock!!! I can't wait to see it!

[wyn1370]

I'm still a little bit upset over the liberties jackson took with some things so far. I have a feeling it's going to get worse before it gets better (or ever does).
Don't get me wrong they are fantastic movies, but some of my favorite things don't hold true in jackson's middle earth.

[datapimp69]

Originally posted by wyn1370
I'm still a little bit upset over the liberties jackson took with some things so far. I have a feeling it's going to get worse before it gets better (or ever does).
Don't get me wrong they are fantastic movies, but some of my favorite things don't hold true in jackson's middle earth.

from jackson

AP: "Return of the King" is about 3 hours, 20 minutes long. Yet you cut a lot ...

JACKSON: We cut about an hour and 5 minutes. The books are so filled with detail and character, but we came to realize that even what we shot would be too long for what these theatrical cuts could sustain.

AP: How do you decide what goes?

JACKSON: The process of trimming a film down is brutal. You always end up cutting scenes that you absolutely love, cutting scenes that a few weeks earlier you said to yourself "I'm never going to cut that!" But ultimately, every scene has to justify its existence. Generally speaking, the shorter the film is the better, especially when you're hovering around that three-hour mark.

AP: Why do the extended edition DVDs, which add as much as 40 minutes back into the previous movies?


Jackson has been praised for his battle sequences, such as this one in "Return of the King."
JACKSON: For the fans who want to see more detail and are not so concerned with the momentum. ... We're basically putting scenes back in which we know on some level are destroying the momentum of the story, making it slow right down, which is why we took them out in the first place. But DVD seems to be a medium that allows you to do a certain amount of that. You have it in your living room, you can pause it, you can make a cup of tea, you can watch it over two nights. It's a much more forgiving environment to watch film in.

AP: A lot of people prefer the longer movies ...

JACKSON: I read reviews that say, "Oh, the DVD version is much better than the theatrical version," and I think, "Ugh, you can't win." The unknown factor is, what would happen if our DVD extended cut of "The Two Towers," which is three hours and 40 minutes, had been released as the theatrical version last year? (Laughs.) Everybody would then say, "It's miles too long."

[wyn1370]

oh it's not what they cut, it's what they changed
faramir, the ents, merry and pippin with the ents, Aragorn not receiving the sword till the last movie(I'll stop here)
all things that are not cut, but dramatically changed.