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Post #436711

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zombie84
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Peter Jackson's take on film-revisionism on the example of Lord of the Rings
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31-Aug-2010, 10:47 PM

That's true, but there still is a certain level of "phoniness" to it all. Its not that things are "upper crust", as you said, its the way its presented, it simply suffers from the video game syndrome. In retrospect, TPM actually holds up pretty well, and that's because they built real locations and real sets and shot on film; even though it has total "video game" moments like the Gungan-droid battle, which I never for a second believed was real, most of the film has a visceral reality to it. AOTC, on the other hand, feels like the worlds highest budget video game, and while ROTS is a great improvement they never truely got over that digital hump, ROTS made its 80% of the way there but not quite enough, and probably a lot of its success has to do with the fact that they went with a battered sylization to bridge closer to the OT, rather than the quality of FX and set construction itself.

It reminds me of two films that have a very similar colour pallete, environment, and technological time period. Which is Troy, and Kingdom of Heaven. When you compare the special effects, the costumes and the set design, Troy looks like an extended version of Xena, or some made-for-TV movie while Kingdom of Heaven looks like it could have been a documentary in its level of realism, even though they both were made in almost the exact same year.