LOTR: Two Towers discussion
I finally saw LOTR: the Two Towers and needless to say I was quite impressed.
Not so much that it was a great film, but it was a film that truly made me understand what I'm about to describe for the majority of my discussion: Being brought to another land.
I admit I wanted to be immersed into this film, but to tell the truth, there were sometimes when I asked where the hell would Peter Jackson film this? In fact probably the only time was when Sam and Frodo got to the Black Gate, much of which reminded me of gravel pits.
Anyways that is beside the point, what I really wanted to mention was how well the story was told. Creation is easy but the result is what counts. Much talk has been about Gollum, and I will focus a lot on that, but it was a major part in bringing in the rest of the FX cast in LOTR.
It's just that it was totally the acting and aid of the FX workers that had made Gollum, Treebeard and the Wargs seem very impressive. But somehow through the story telling and masterful work the realization that these were FX creatures, with that oh so impossible-in-reality detail in every part of their body (in complete focus mind you), I still was drawn in enough to ignore that these were indeed creations of the computer. These clear-clean creatures were so well done that you focus on the movement and action rather than how much detail it looked like. I still say that the best FX I had ever seen in my life on the movie screen was in Jurassic Park, the raptors themselves were so glorious that I couldn't tell reality from fake....but I do have to say LOTR: The Two Towers had almost attained my high expectations. The acting itself helped very much to see the reality of the creatures, but also the grandiose scale of the war of Helm's Deep had made those small polygonic Uruk-Hai seem like a impending swarm of locust devouring the stone walls. The Nazgul wasn't as scary as it would seem but more majestic in showing it.
To tell the truth, I was entertained, no so much to my favorite movies, but LOTR had fullfilled in what it aimed to be: An event film for an event book. This was so much more the event film than Star Wars AOTC could ever aim to be, despite LOTR's few short-comings (Gimli being comic relief, the very eye-sore close up shots of war). Irreagardless a great film.
4/5 stars.
I finally saw LOTR: the Two Towers and needless to say I was quite impressed.
Not so much that it was a great film, but it was a film that truly made me understand what I'm about to describe for the majority of my discussion: Being brought to another land.
I admit I wanted to be immersed into this film, but to tell the truth, there were sometimes when I asked where the hell would Peter Jackson film this? In fact probably the only time was when Sam and Frodo got to the Black Gate, much of which reminded me of gravel pits.
Anyways that is beside the point, what I really wanted to mention was how well the story was told. Creation is easy but the result is what counts. Much talk has been about Gollum, and I will focus a lot on that, but it was a major part in bringing in the rest of the FX cast in LOTR.
It's just that it was totally the acting and aid of the FX workers that had made Gollum, Treebeard and the Wargs seem very impressive. But somehow through the story telling and masterful work the realization that these were FX creatures, with that oh so impossible-in-reality detail in every part of their body (in complete focus mind you), I still was drawn in enough to ignore that these were indeed creations of the computer. These clear-clean creatures were so well done that you focus on the movement and action rather than how much detail it looked like. I still say that the best FX I had ever seen in my life on the movie screen was in Jurassic Park, the raptors themselves were so glorious that I couldn't tell reality from fake....but I do have to say LOTR: The Two Towers had almost attained my high expectations. The acting itself helped very much to see the reality of the creatures, but also the grandiose scale of the war of Helm's Deep had made those small polygonic Uruk-Hai seem like a impending swarm of locust devouring the stone walls. The Nazgul wasn't as scary as it would seem but more majestic in showing it.
To tell the truth, I was entertained, no so much to my favorite movies, but LOTR had fullfilled in what it aimed to be: An event film for an event book. This was so much more the event film than Star Wars AOTC could ever aim to be, despite LOTR's few short-comings (Gimli being comic relief, the very eye-sore close up shots of war). Irreagardless a great film.
4/5 stars.
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