JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and Other Middle-Earth Stories Book • Page 16

I don't, because it completely breaks the tension of whether or not they are actually going to help fight, which is the factor the entire battle hinges upon. The theatrical version where it's Aragorn asking, "What say you?" over and over again to no response before cutting back to Minas Tirith is such a *chef's kiss* moment. And so when they do actually show up at the battle it's that much more cathartic.

 

fwiw jackson is on the record as hating them as well

 

Fellowship of the Ring is the best film.

 

The first hour of Fellowship is comfy

 

It's a shame they couldn't capture the magic again with The Hobbit movies. Martin freeman was great. But they were so bloated.

 

I watched the first 2 hobbit films in theaters and I have no desire to watch them again. I didn't even bother seeing the battle of the five armies.

 

probably never gonna watch the hobbit movies but i hear mckellan as gandalf is still great in em

 

Watching Jackson break down under the weight of it all in the making of doc for Five Armies is so very sad.

 

This made me laugh:

 

The hobbit movies aren't great but there's still some good stuff in them. Martin freeman is great. Ian McKellen is great. The emotional scenes just don't connect like the ones in lotr. They do feel overly long with a lot of fuller and lazy cgi.

 

I got the new 4K release of the LOTR trilogy for Christmas, watched a few scenes from Fellowship today, and damn does this look great. Excited to watch these all the way through again soon, then probably watch the Hobbit movies for the first time.

 

Going to get the 4k too, just waiting till I get a PS5 (whenever that will be) since I don't have an UHD player.

 

My friends and I are going to be doing a full day to rewatch all of them with the new 4K remasters. We’re all very excited.

 

I am now the proud owner of History of Middle-earth. I've wanted a complete edition for years and snatched up the reissue three-volume set recently. Very pleased.

 

Doing a rewatch bc my wife has never seen them, still have to do RotK but, man i forgot just how perfect of a movie Fellowship is, but Two Towers is far and away the better movie.

 

Doing a rewatch right now too. Just finished Fellowship, I forgot how much I loved it. Two Towers is even better. Helm’s Deep is one of the coolest moments in movies for me.

 

Helms Deep is one of my favorite parts of any movie.

This rewatch has me looking at the real life filming locations and now i wanna go to new zealand to see them all hah

 

Seems like a bad idea

 

wtf.

Also, the replies lmao

 

yeah not great timing there. I'd have actually have wanted to go see that too. Got the 4k trilogy, will probably watch the fellowship this weekend.

 

People with half a brain when the dark lord Imax tempts them in the midst of a pandemic.

 

Even if there wasn't a pandemic I wouldn't want to sit in a theater to marathon all 3 films. That's like 10 hours. Pass.