Which Movie was best overall?

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

the green Scrubbing Bubbles scouring Minas Tirith

That's indeed a thing I've been wondering. Why couldn't they spare three or five seconds to show the people of Minas Tirith to see the rohirrim to come for their aid and make the effort? I mean it begged for those shots... the Gondorian soldiers on the walls feeling themselves doomed and betrayed by the rohirrim as Denethor put it and then seeing the cavalry gathering on the hill and blowing their horns to charge! What film would that have made!

[alatar]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

If you really parse out the scenes in each movie, it is the unadulterated dialogue (even where another character speaks the lines) and scenes from the original plot that outshine the reinvented and reconfigured sensationalizations and muddled reinterpretations that characterized the scripting of Boyens and Jackson.

Much agreed. And to think at the time of first viewing FotR I wasn't happy that the 'unadulterated diagogue' flowed from the wrong lips. By TT and RotK, if only...

The Fellowship of the Ring cause it was the closest to the books and the characters.

All the films are well done. but the Fellowship had the essence of Lord of The Rings and I think some of it was lost in the last two films.

I think the first one is probably the favorite of fans of the books. Those who never read the books would probably like the Return of the king the most.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I liked all of them although TTT had my favourate scenes it was less like the book than the other two. Darn PJ.

[Lady_Arwen]

Hmmm, hard to say. Either Return of the King or The Two Towers, but I think I liked ROTK better.