Silverlode
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Jun 16 2013, 1:11am
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Well, it certainly has a lot of great epic elements to it, and there is every possibility for it to be great. Since LOTR is one very continuous and complicated story, at the end of each movie there was a sense of a pause rather than an ending, as most elements were still in progress. We had the same sense for AUJ. If DOS includes, as I think it will, the death of Smaug it will be the most defined story-arc of all the films, with perhaps the best and easiest pacing of all its parts, and in that sense it may flow most effortlessly. The Hobbit and LOTR are both quite episodic, and the story-within-the-story of the dealings with Smaug may well be the most self-contained movie in the sextology. It's also in a way the most classic "Fantasy" section of any of the books. If I'm right, TABA is going to be about politics and war and will have some clear foreshadowing of LOTR - in a way, it may well feel like a "bridge movie". Even though it ends with Bilbo's homecoming, I think it will begin the story of Sauron so as to make all 6 movies continuous.
Whether DOS will be my favorite movie of the 6 remains to be seen, but I can understand how it could be the favorite from a directing/editing point of view.
Silverlode
"Dark is the water of Kheled-zâram, and cold are the springs of Kibil-nâla, and fair were the many-pillared halls of Khazad-dűm in Elder Days before the fall of mighty kings beneath the stone."
(This post was edited by Silverlode on Jun 16 2013, 1:13am)
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