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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
Interesting. Many literary critics consider it one of, if not the, best "book" written in the 20th century.
When I think of Jackson I think of the criticism that Vigio Mortensen gave him, which is that Jackson stopped directing and became more of a special effects expert and CGI creator.
Put me in the category of loving all the movies, but consider the first two the best, then the third, followed by the hobbit series. Things I wish he had done better:
I don't like that Dwarves are pansies in a lot of the fight scenes. I really wish they had done the scene of Gimli jumping the wall better, with him being the equivalent of a honey badger tearing through orcs.
I also wish that we had seen more of Beorn during the Battle of Five Armies. That could have been epic.
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http://ca.ign.com/articles/2014/05/1...and-the-hobbit
I agree mainly with Mortensen on the point that the movies went downhill after the first. TT and ROTK were disappointments after FOTR. FOTR was a beautiful movie; it inspired me to read the books and learn more about the mythology, which was beautiful as well. I am certainly glad that Tolkien had created this huge background of everything. There was no fan-fiction type garbage to wade through like with Star Wars.