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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
Legolas doing Matrix/Jedi stuff on the elephant's back was the warning that things were about to turn grim for the franchise. that's one of the few parts in LOTR that looks like video game cutscene. I think even Viggo mentioned that Jackson began to lose his way around that time, because of the amount of budget and creative control he was handed after the earlier movies...basically exactly the same thing as Lucas.
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By the second film of LOTR, things had started to fall apart a little, and you could see where Jackson was going with the CGI stuff, particularly in those drawn out battle sequences.
Even Gollem looked far better in the first film, where he was seen sparingly in the shadows. The battle scenes just draw on far too long in the 2 later movies and many of the large CGI elements are painful to watch. The smaller scale and shorter battles in the first film do a much better job of creating a sense of urgency.