Noticed Roeper completely turned his opinion around between the 1st and 2nd films.
@Dr3amtime
5 жыл бұрын
Seems like Ebert may have read the Hobbit, but not LOTR. Jackson didn't turn LOTR into a primarily dark adventure; that was Tolkien. Jackson stayed pretty true to the original's balance of tones.
@brianhester8918
3 жыл бұрын
Battle of helms deep. One of the greatest battles ever filmed
@lachlanneville7138
3 жыл бұрын
I don’t understand the idea that these films aren’t true to the spirit of Tolkien. They have their issues, but Tolkien wasn’t a guy that just wrote fun, upbeat adventures. The books are just as violent as the films are, if not more so
@jimgiguere2879
5 жыл бұрын
In the second half of this video, Roeper is channeling supremely high levels of “I didn’t read the book but I want to appear like I did” energy.
@georgemorley1029
2 жыл бұрын
The films that Peter Jackson made are about as faithful you could be to the source material without creating a confusing and obscure mess for the modern cinema audience. Decisions like omitting Tom Bombadil during the fellowship are entirely understandable, as he derails the main plot and relieves tension at point when the director needs to be raising the stakes and bringing the audience quickly into the story. As for finishing Saruman off early and axing the Scouring of the Shire, well again, as much as it pains me to say it, it just wouldn’t carry the trilogy through to a satisfactory ending for non diehard-Tolkien fans. It’s a second, (cinematically less impressive) climax after the main plot has been resolved and the audience wouldn’t react well to an obviously depressing homecoming and more subdued resolution to what has already been a nine hour film journey at this point. No, I’m afraid the films are structured the way they are for good reasons. Moaning about it doesn’t help. You can get away with things like this in epic literary tales but you can’t pull it off on screen.
@JoeFoley24
5 жыл бұрын
For a second I thought I heard Ebert say "ancient FUCKING trees"
@Widdermaker
5 жыл бұрын
At least Roeper comes around this time. Not sure what he was talking about in the first film. Guess it’s because he didn’t read the books.
@lynx002ca
3 жыл бұрын
Translation for Roeper: I was a complete idiot for giving the first one a bad review, my bad.
@newwavepop
4 жыл бұрын
having literally just come here from watching Ropers review of fellowship,, the way he seems to so happily and gleefully review this one it almost makes me think he got chewed out by someone for his previous review and is trying to save his ass on this one.
@markbarthel9835
3 жыл бұрын
"There's lots of people that know more about Tolkien than I do" -Richard Reoper
@1986beasty
Жыл бұрын
Yes when I saw this in theatres I knew them it was a benchmark movie. The effects still hold up very well today. The last charge of Gandalf down the hill with the music was spectacular. No one left the theatre as the credits rolled.
@hoochiemoochie89
3 жыл бұрын
I remembered that trailer for Two Towers... one of the greatest movie trailers of all time.
@decimatorentertainmentstud8523
6 жыл бұрын
Great movie
@oobrocks
3 жыл бұрын
2 huge 👍 for me. Arguably The best 1! Unbelievable battle scene!!
@TheHopkinsesOfficial
5 жыл бұрын
Anyone notice the Music in the trailer is directly taken from the movie "Requiem for a Dream"?
@qweqqweq2090
I can somewhat forgive them for not getting on your knees and bowing and exclaiming, "we're not worthy! we're not worthy!".
@maskedmarvyl4774
3 жыл бұрын
I agree with Ebert; the Hobbits were shoved too much to the side in this movie. They should have involved them more, and shown their struggles.
@joecalahan4068
2 жыл бұрын
The first one is a classic tale of good vs evil, the second one is awesome the third is spectacular
@markoportuondo7375
2 жыл бұрын
One of my older friends he saw all LOTR films opening day and remembered the jam packed showings. Wish I was there and not a small child back then. 😓
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