Best Lord of the Rings film

[coolharry]

S.Peelman said:

coolharry said:
From the theater versions I like the Return of the King the most. The first movie is an adventurie movie, the second one is a war movie and the third one has the most epic moments.

But if I can choose the extended versions as well, I prefer the Two Towers by far. The extra scenes in the first movie do not add a lot, and the third movie especially adds bad CGI scenes. But the extra scenes from the Two Towers give the movie a lot more depth and and makes it a lot more than just a war movie.

I do not understand the love for the Hobbit movies. The pacing was off, the dwarfs look ridiculous (compare them with Gimli) and the movie doesn't really know what kind of movie it wants to be. And of course, making 3 movies was only a good choice because of the $$$, but besides that, it was a terrible idea.

Bad CGI scenes?

Return of the King’s Extended Edition primarily adds the confrontation with Saruman, an extended Paths of the Dead sequence, the Witch King confronting Gandalf in Minas Tirith, romance between Eowyn and Faramir, the Mouth of Sauron and more of Frodo and Sam in Mordor.

I’m not really seeing worse CGI here than in the rest of the film, and actually, not that much CGI dominated scenes at all. Really only the Paths of the Dead.

Meanwhile it adds stuff crucial to the story. Saruman at least should’ve been in the theatrical release because it leaves a huge loose end by skipping him. Christopher Lee was also quite surprised and puzzled at the time because of this exclusion, and was a bit angry over it to Peter Jackson. Obviously they reconciled in the end because Lee happily appeared in the Hobbit trilogy for as big a role as he had in Lord of the Rings.

Anyway I think you should give the Extended Edition another chance.

I watched all versions more than 10 times, so giving them a second chance is not possible anymore :P

I might be exaccerating a bit, but I'm mostly talking about the extra scenes around the battle of Gondor before the rohirim arive. The trolls (and massive fields of orcs) seem to be glitching a lot in the extra scenes (the first time I saw that I was really thinking, wtf, did they forget to finish these scenes or something?) and it took me out of the movie a bit. Furthtermore,  the extra scene around the  'nothing can brake the door', 'Wolf can brake it', was really weak and I think the scene between Gandalf and the Wizard King was a lot less epic than in the book, so I didn't mind that they skipped that one in the theatrical version :)