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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix
You know why I am not backing up my points? Because frankly I don't care, your and my movie tastes (not to mention the vast majority) are drastically different, so carry on. I found the LOTR movies to have extremely powerful characters, strong plot (I agree Narnia was lacking), along with mixing in action (which the LOTR books have alot of). So quote all the movie critics you want, I'll continue being my anti-intellectual self. You don't respect my opinion on it, I don't respect yours on movies, so we are even. For your information the Harry Potter movies destroyed one vital character, Dumbledore, especially in 4 where he physically assaulted Harry and acted insane.
In regards to the Godfather triliogy, I found Godfather 1 to be weak in acting, not to mention it had some of the cheesiest fight scenes around. Godfather II was far superior in every way, but LOTR I found to have a fine balance of action/character/story and consider it to be the best triliogy.
Yeah, what she said.
Evan you have a great knowledge of many things and you can back up your "this sucked ass"-esk statements with tons of quotes and source material and what not. And that's great. I don't have your acting school wisdom but I know what I enjoy in life and why I enjoy it, so if you want I will not just "force" feed you an answer but give you some facts and detailed opinions to go along with it.
Let's begin with why I personally enjoyed the Rings movies (not just as a trilogy but as individual films).
The Fellowship of the Rings: Let's begin by me saying I was not a reader of the original books. Though many of my friends at the time were and when the movie was announced there was much excitement in the air and I got swept up in it. I just had to see what the big deal was. When I saw Fellowship I began to understand what it was all about.
Right from the get go I was enthralled in the film. The opening segment explaining the whole origin of the rings and the original epic battle against lord Sauron was absolutely beautiful (and still one of my favorite openers to a film to date). Right from the get go you understood this would be a tale of Good vs Evil on a scale which we haven't seen before on the cinematic scale and of course the classic inner battle against succumbing to great power that in the end will corrupt you. (Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.)
From the epic battle of the past we are then brought to the beautiful country side with the introduction of some of our main characters. The beautiful musical score from Howard Shore helps to suck you in to the beautify that is unfolding on screen. Immediately you can already understand the nature of some of the characters, such as Gandalf. "A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to”" comes to mind as a line that helps to explain Gandalf as a character while he is Gandalf the gray (serious but lighthearted and from the scenes that follow very loving and caring of his friends and all life that surrounds him).
The great character set ups and introductions persist throughout the film as well as the spectacular cinematography which allows us to look at this massive unique world of Middle Earth like never before. The film does an excellent job of portraying the scale of the journey ahead and the dire nature of the task assigned to Frodo.
The first film does a great job of establishing the "heros journey" and establishes the supporting of "the hero" quite well. This leads us to care for the charcaters and when events happen such as Gandalf plummeting to his apparent doom we care. The events which, in the end, cause the fellowship to break up and establish the basis of the Two Towers was handled well. It helps to show the growth of many of the characters as well as the growth of the bond between them. Aragorn, Legoloas and Gimlli's resolve at the end shows the ever so prevalent bonds of friendship cannot easily be broken and that very friendship strengthens their bond with one another and empowers them to venture forth on a seemingly impossible task of catching up to Merry and Pippin.
The bonds of friendship shine at the end for Frodo and Sam as well with Sam nearly drowning just to stay by his best friends side and aide him on his quest.
The underlying purpose of the film was to establish those bonds between our main characters, introduce the viewer to the massive world of Middle Earth and provide the back story and plot for the ominous evil that is Lord Sauron and Saruman. It does so beautifully and drags people into the world of Lord of the Rings and made even those of us who had never even been interested in the series suddenly fall in love with the universe that was presented to us.
Needless to say, in my eyes, the film was a great success and was beautifully entertaining from start to finish. The pacing was well done, the characters were portrayed fantastically, the musical score was brilliant and it showcased many universal themes (good vs evil, power corrupting those whom were once pure, and the heros journey) in a way that cinema has never done so before.
That is in a nut shell, why I enjoyed the first movie so much.
Second and third reasons coming soon.
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Evan if I have one problem with you it's how you can toss aside others opinions with no respect. Saying to Mantidor he lost credibility for enjoying the action segments of the film is pig headed and quite frankly unfair. The reason why I will toss around my opinion at you and "ham fistedly" tell you why it's good is because you do the same to others. For all your knowledge and proverbial wisdom of subjects you come off as extremely close minded and as a person unwilling to accept the views of others.
I've said it in other posts but everyone has different experiences with various subject matter, may it be movies, video games, books or other mediums and that while we all have our own opinions on things it's unfair to state "loss of credibility" for it.
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