Best Lotr/hobbit movies - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Snowdog · 06-09-2017, 07:13 PM

Hmm.... ratings from me:

1. Born Of Hope (Kate Maddison)
2. The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson)
3. The Lord of the Rings (Bakshi)
4. The Two Towers (Jackson)
5. Hunt For Gollum (Chris Bouchard)
6. The Return of the King (Jackson)
7. An Unexpected Journey (Jackson)
8. The Hobbit (Rankin-Bass)
9. The Return of the King (Rankin-Bass)
10. The Desolation of Smaug (Jackson)
11. The Battle of Five Armies (Jackson)

I ordered them by my preference of viewing. I added the fan films because they have some heart behind them if not the budget, and are a preferrable watch to me despite some shortcomings in them. Of the forst three LotR P.J. Boyens & Co movies, they have to be the EE, and even then, I can usually only stomach Fellowship, with a fast forward through the Arwen part. I admire the Bakshi attempt, and love the orcs in it. The faux-Viking Boromir and the Robin Hood Strider was a bit much. but I could accept the Disney Princess Galadriel. And at least it had Glorfindel in it. That said, except for the 1st one on occasion, I don't usually go out of my way to watch any of them.

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Originally Posted by Morthoron

In the context of not wanting to watch them ever again, I wouldn't necessarily call it an overstatement. There's any number of great films I'll watch yearly - I cringe even when I am randomly clicking by a LotR film with my TV remote.

I agree. I will give one of the Jackson movies until the first commercial break should I find it on free-to-air TV, if only to remind myself how crap the screenplays are.

Inziladun · 06-09-2017, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Snowdog

I admire the Bakshi attempt, and love the orcs in it. The faux-Viking Boromir and the Robin Hood Strider was a bit much. but I could accept the Disney Princess Galadriel. And at least it had Glorfindel in it.

And Arwen does not speak! If only Liv Tyler....

Pervinca Took · 06-13-2017, 01:15 PM

It *sort* of had Glorfindel in it. But Aragorn insisted on calling him Legolas, and *he* insisted on going on the Quest with them!

Inziladun · 06-13-2017, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

It *sort* of had Glorfindel in it. But Aragorn insisted on calling him Legolas, and *he* insisted on going on the Quest with them!

Doe-eyed though his animated self was, he had nothing on this.

06-13-2017, 01:15 PM	#3
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	It sort of had Glorfindel in it. But Aragorn insisted on calling him Legolas, and he insisted on going on the Quest with them! __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."