What All Was Wrong with PJ's LOTR

[mithrand1r]

Originally Posted by Olmer

American suburbs???
Does New Zeland look like the american suburbs?!!
Besides the movie has been made by a new zelander, who lives and works THERE, not in the Hollywood. Thank God for it, because I am shuddering as imagining a Hollywood version. Ralph Bakshi's is more than enough.

While I think that Bakshi had several problems with his adaptation of LOTR to screen, in some respects, I think he was closer to the spirit of the books than PJ et al. (Especially for the part of the movie upto when the hobbits arrive in Rivendell)

Overall, I enjoyed PJ&companies version of LOTR, but I think it could have been better. (especially considering the amount of resources that PJ had available for making the films.)

One thing I will definitively say about PJ et al. Their version of LOTR does not look like any US suburbs. (IMHO )

(Peter I just say your comment. I am not sure about the impression of the movie not seeming like it was from Hollywood. It is difficult for me to tell where a movie is from, although this film did have the appearance (to me) of a big budget production.)