The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Addendum said:
I've done it.

I watched all 3 extended editions in one sitting, excluding piss breaks and the bonus discs

14 hours.

I then watched the bonus discs. 1 week to go through them all.
And did you feel better for doing it?
 
kol_lover said:
And did you feel better for doing it?
I know I sure as hell did. The movie iteself brought me to tears a couple of times whjile the bonus featiursa made me want to be an actor in a project likek this. It honestly sounds like it would be a life-altering type experience
 
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Jk ;)
 
No work of fiction has dramatically changed my life at all. However, there are works of fiction that I enjoy returning to anually to either read (Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Alan Moore's Watchmen, Jeff Smith's Bone, Douglas Adams' 5-book Hitchhiker's Trilogy), watch (Babylon 5, Monty Python's Flying Circus, LOTR, the Godfather trilogy) or play (Deus Ex, Xenogears, the GTA series)
 
The Fellowship of the Ring.

I don't know why, but I found it a little distracting when the story is split up in part two and three. It annoyed me a little bit when I read the books too, and it's something that have annoyed me even more in a lot of other fantasy-novels, with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time-series as probably the best example of a story too big for its own good. I suppose fantasy-writers feel the need of having a lot of characters and a lot of side-plots to get that "epic" feeling to the story. Lord of the Rings probably would have been a lot shorter if was only about getting to Mordor and destroy the ring. Still, watching The Two Towers and The Return of the King felt like zapping between two or three movies. They're still great movies, but feels more unfocused and less tight in the storytelling than part one of the trilogy. Same with the books.
 
Addendum said:
I consider them all one movie.
Well that's absurd.
How many movies do you watch where you press pause, come back a year later and press play again?

Star Wars, Empire and Return of the Jedi all followed the same characters through a long story. Sorry, those were three great movies.
 
1. Two Towers
2. Fellowship of the Ring
3. Return of the King
 
1. The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Return of the King
3. Two Towers

This was quite possibly the hardest thing I have done today:o
 
Wilhelm-Scream said:
Well that's absurd.
How many movies do you watch where you press pause, come back a year later and press play again?

Star Wars, Empire and Return of the Jedi all followed the same characters through a long story. Sorry, those were three great movies.
How many trilogies were filmed all at the same time, which were based on a book whose author intended to be released as one book, but his publisher chose instead to release them as 3 separate books?

Since Tolkien considered "The Lord of the Rings" as 1 complete book, I consider the Peter Jackson movies as one complete movie.

And Quentin Tarantino considers Kill Bill to be one complete movie, even though it was released as 2 separate movies.
 
All three were pretty good but my favorite is the Fellowship of the Ring, then Two Towers, and Return of the King.

RotK, lacked something.
 

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