the fellowship of the ring
Jun. 25th, 2003 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauraque_bkA friend of mine finally convinced me to watch the first LOTR movie, though I've never read any of the books. There were a number of things to like about this movie: the acting was good, some of the images were striking, and it's obviously a solid story.
The directing, unfortunately, was terrible.
The movie went from ponderous and repetitive in some places, to jerky and too fast in others. Jackson seemed unable to handle the most basic of scenes. Even when we're just watching two characters converse, the constant jump-cuts and awkward angles and zooms make it impossible to follow or get engaged. I wanted to like the movie, for the reasons I gave above, but the amateurish directing just made it tedious to watch. I was glancing at the clock every couple of minutes. I can tell that there's an excellent movie to be made from this material, but the one Peter Jackson made was definitely not it.
Am I the only one who felt this way? Have I suddenly come down with attention deficit disorder? Somebody clue me in.
The directing, unfortunately, was terrible.
The movie went from ponderous and repetitive in some places, to jerky and too fast in others. Jackson seemed unable to handle the most basic of scenes. Even when we're just watching two characters converse, the constant jump-cuts and awkward angles and zooms make it impossible to follow or get engaged. I wanted to like the movie, for the reasons I gave above, but the amateurish directing just made it tedious to watch. I was glancing at the clock every couple of minutes. I can tell that there's an excellent movie to be made from this material, but the one Peter Jackson made was definitely not it.
Am I the only one who felt this way? Have I suddenly come down with attention deficit disorder? Somebody clue me in.
