I’m going to be harping on this theme continuously, but when you are adapting three novels into 10 hours of screen time, you need to be efficient. Things
Adapting a beloved novel is always going to be difficult. One with as much backstory and history as Tolkien puts in his works might seem nearly impossible to
We get our second glimpse of the dark riders. I’m thinking Peter Jackson hired the costume designer from Scream. Or maybe Scream 3. Minutes Watched: 40.33 Number of
When Gandalf enters Bag End for the first time, we see that Jackson is more than up to the technical challenge of turning normal sized actors* into hobbits.
Well, we finally got to the end of this interminable montage. Is it the longest montage ever? Someone needs to google that for me. I’m a little unhappy
Examples of bad filmmaking at the 4.56 mark. I’m sure Jackson can just blame it on the second unit director. He probably had this conversation at some point.
This opening montage strikes me as a poor choice. In general, I think of montages as a filmmaker’s crutch. Anytime the story needs moving along, and it’s beyond