I don't fare well watching films with any measure of violence, and I suffered from a bad coughing fit after seeing "The Fellowship of the Ring". Not that it was terribly violent, I'm just a wimp. I see what Dan meant by the seemingly gaping holes in the plot too - some bits felt like we'd been fast-forwarded. Otherwise, it wasn't bad. :)
Of course the special effects were good - can you think of any films these days with special effects that aren't? I was wondering whether it might have been more work to make lots of dead dwarfs - all dead in different ways - than to have made some of the sweeping scenes. Does anyone know?
Every time I see a film heavily laden with graphics, I think of the evening some years ago when I watched as a 3D-graphics-head-of-a-friend demonstrated his work that night. He did Quake models at the time, and he had been designing all nine different ways a monster could die. Cool eh?
Posted by sniffles at December 28, 2001 01:10 AM