Viggo Mortensen critiques the LOTR and Hobbit movies

I remember when I watched them, I thought that the first movie was the best one but at the time I didn't know why, I just knew that I liked it better. Since then it holds up on repeat viewings. The Two Towers put me to sleep on second viewing, and Return of the King put me to sleep on first viewing.



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What’s that precious? Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen says Peter Jackson was too obsessed with special effects

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Originally Posted by opening paragraphs of article VIGGO Mortensen has criticised the Lord of the Rings sequels, saying Peter Jackson got too carried away with special effects. The actor, who gained worldwide fame after being cast as Aragorn in the hit LOTR trilogy, now admits he has mixed feelings about the movies that made him a worldwide star. Mortensen told The Telegraph UK that the first LOTR film, 2001’s The Fellowship of the Ring, is his favourite. After that, the films became too bloated with special effects as director Peter Jackson became enthralled with computer generate imagery, he said. “Peter was always a geek in terms of technology, but once he had the means to do it, and the evolution of the technology really took off, he never looked back. In the first movie, yes, there’s Rivendell and Mordor, but there’s sort of an organic quality to it, actors acting with each other, and real landscapes. It’s grittier,” he said. “The second movie already started ballooning, for my taste, and then by the third one there were a lot of special effects.” “It was grandiose and all that, but whatever was subtle in the first movie gradually got lost in the second and third. Now with The Hobbit one and two it’s like that to the power of 10.”