The Lord of the Rings

[pmmg]

The LOTR series is top in my list of best Fantasy Films of all times. I must say, I did love the Hobbit as well, but then, I am bias in a way because my job is vfx for film and although I didn't have the chance to directly work on these films myself, have loads of colleagues that did.
There is another film I can't pass mentioning which is always been one of my great inspirations for Fantasy, that is The NeverEnding Story from 1984. What an amazing Fantasy, Family friendly film!!

I say NES recently, and...I thought it was awful.

Good for maybe a after school special, but not worthy compared to so much else that it competes against.

LOTR and Avatar were probably my best movie experiences of the last 20 years, (or is it 25 now?). but Star Wars.... Nothing beats that. While I think ESB may be one of the best movies ever, Star Wars is still something that just can't happen again.

 

[eom]

I mean, I am a romantic I suppose...I haven't watched NES in a long while tbh, so I would probably not find it as good today either but I found it had a great impact in me as child back then.

 

[ThrillhoBaggins]

We got two fantastic trilogies out of this series.

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

One fantastic trilogy, one moderately good movie, one messy, mediocre movie with one good scene [Smaug], and a fight scene stretched out into a terrible movie. All because of studio executives screwing over Peter Jackson, the crew, and especially the actors.

 

[ThrillhoBaggins]

Two fantastic trilogies....and a terrible love triangle. What were they thinking doing that.

 

[Demesnedenoir]

LoTR smokes Star Wars. Mind, I saw Star Wars in the theaters 12+ times as a kid, so there is something special there that will never be repeated, but, that said, LoTR f'n smokes Star Wars. Avatar is like crap that's been fired with a pretty digital glaze. It's been.a day, so I might be venting a little, heh heh.

The first rule of The Hobbit club is that I don't talk about The Hobbit. I might be bitter.

I say NES recently, and...I thought it was awful.

Good for maybe a after school special, but not worthy compared to so much else that it competes against.

LOTR and Avatar were probably my best movie experiences of the last 20 years, (or is it 25 now?). but Star Wars.... Nothing beats that. While I think ESB may be one of the best movies ever, Star Wars is still something that just can't happen again.

 

[pmmg]

Its a quality movie to disagree with. But, I still disagree Star Wars changed to the world, LOTR not as much.

 

[Demesnedenoir]

Star Wars changed the world in a sense, but it wasn't as good of a movie. it was the right move at the right time. And every pass at it, Lucas has degraded it. Lucas' real genius was in marketing.

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

Why does it have to be a competition? Can't they both have changed the world equally in different ways?