Shelob'sAppetite
Valinor
Oct 2 2012, 2:51am
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But Lawrence of Arabia, for example, is a masterpiece in terms of cinematography, acting and directing (which far outweigh the score, IMO). Just the introduction of Sherif Ali alone, slowly emerging from the shimmering heat of the desert, is worth more than all the music in the film.
In my view, the same cannot be said of LOTR. It has a good score, but the cinematography and direction doesn't come close to LoA (only for very brief moments does it near the mark). The actors are generally good - especially Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Sean Bean, Bernard Hill, Karl Urban, and Viggo Mortensen - but PJ's insistence on over-acting and melodrama wastes a lot of that talent.
In any event, I am now more glad than ever that Shore is scoring the films. The awful music in the trailer woke me up to the simple fact that he's very much needed for these films to work.
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