Which Was Your Favorite "Lord of the Rings" Film?

[THUNDER HANDS]

Poll question: Which Was Your Favorite "Lord of the Rings" Film?

Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers or Return of the King.

I'd place them in the order they appeared. I absolutely LOVE the first film. I think it's one of the best movies made in the past 25 years.

The second one, for a middle chapter to a story, was also an excellent film.

The third one left me feeling flat, if only because I liked the human characters in the LOTR trilogy the least and they were the primary characters.

The battle scene was cool, but the second movie kinda seemed bigger than life in it's battle at Helms Deep. The ROTK battle was too over the top for me.

But what say you?

[MissMillie]

1. I disagree, but with a qualifier

ROTK is the only one that I saw in a movie theater... which may have added to the experience.

[meegbear]

2. What if you don't have one?

[gyopsy]

3. The Fellowship

The other films were great also but my first time into the LOTR trilogy will always be my favorite because I was absolutely blown away by what P. Jackson was able to accomplish. It was a dream come true.

I feel as though the Two Towers was the weakest of the 3 but it was still excellent by my standards.

[Love Bug]

7. Have you seen the extended version of The Fellowship?

Great additional stuff about the Hobbits at the beginning.

[gyopsy]

9. I bought the Director's DVD

The first day it came out. I had read about the 40 minutes of additional footage and didn't become a sucker like most people by buying the lesser DVD that came out first.

[Bertha Venation]

4. Haven't seen any, don't care to.

Not my cuppa.

[gyopsy]

5. My friend finds LOTR boring and awful

And he's really into movies. So I can completely understand your position.

[Love Bug]

6. I don't look at them as separate movies

I consider them one movie told in three sittings. Also, the extended versions were a different experience for me than the released versions. I love them all!

BTW--it's not easy to make me cry in a movie but I cried during parts of Return of the King. Hell, I have the soundtrack and THAT makes me cry, too. My sister, who claims she is allergic to Hobbits, is slowly coming around to actually wanting to see these films. Mwahahah! She wantses it.... yes, my precious, she wannnnts it!

I'm so glad they won all those Oscars! Frodo Lives!

I saw a crawl yesterday on CNN that because of the popularity of LOTR, Disney is planning on filming "The Chronicles of Narnia," starting with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." There were no details in this announcement, such as whether these films will be animated or live action. I hope they are live action and done as well as the Harry Potter series. I also hope they stay true to the character of the books and don't "Disney-fy" them too much.

[gyopsy]

10. I don't trust Disney...

with something as special as the Narnia chronicles. The company is in a major creative "braindrain" right now and the only thing that has kept them afloat has been their affiliation with the now superior Pixar. Eisner really should retire. Roy Disney is the better choice for CEO Chairman right now.

[Love Bug]

11. I don't trust Disney, either

I'd realliy like to see Roy in charge. Screwing up the deal with Pixar should've guaranteed Eisner's ouster.

[LincolnMcGrath]

14. Same here ONE movie

Three sittings. Saw all three in theater. Exited theater, Went right back in and watched the third one over again with two oldest boys. Have two on DVD. Looking forward to all three on DVD directors cut someday. Great for a snow day/ rain-out, 11 hours of my precious!

[Cheswick2.0]

8. 1st, 3rd and then 2nd

I would have been happy if both the first and third has been an hour longer. I felt that there was a lot of character development and story lost in favor of the battles (which were spectacular).
To me the men were the most compelling characters in the story and I would have liked to get to know them better. The end of TRTK was all about healing and rebirth. I think it was glossed over.

[everythingsxen]

12. The animated Hobbit..

along with the animated RotK.

The orcs singing "Where there's a whip there's a way" was so funny.

The new movies were ok too I guess..

[VelmaD]

13. Totally agree

"So carefully carefully with the plates" :-)

Love those singing dwarfs. :-)

[kodi]

15. FOTR hands down,

perfect mix of visuals, narrative, and especially the score by howard shore. that score is about the best ever written for a film and its blending with the story makes it better than the other two films in composite.

shore's other scores, even the one of ROTK, for which shore won another oscar, do not in my opinion measure up to the majesty of the first score. that first score, with its themes of the shire, and of the fellowship are to me what i hear when the LOTR comes to mind.

there is more character exposition in FOTR, but less action, nonetheless, i come away with wanting to view FOTR over the other two films because FOTR seems so much more based upon human emotions than the special effects tsumanis of the later films

the scenes of the little shire children running over the verdant green fields of hobbiton and shouting "gandalf!", boromir's death battle, gandalf's fall in moria and the reactions of the fellowship to it, the leaving of lothlorien by the 8 remaining members of the fellowship, and the very last few minutes of the film with sam and frodo all seem so much more striking than the contents of the following films. only theoden's death is comparable in emotional impact.

[tigerbeat]

16. FOTR all the way

the other two rate about the same for me. excellent but didn't strum my soul the way the first one did.

one qualifier, the image near the end of ROTK with sam and frodo on the rock surrounded by lava and the eagles soaring out of the sky towards them is simply the best fantasy image ever committed to film.