Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25987328-20160413230109/@comment-26094355-20160421052602

Catfishperson wrote: A good movie has more to it then fight scenes; however, I really don't think there's anything but fight scenes and epic music in the Lotr movies. Are you medically blind...?

The fight scenes, actually, make up a very small part of the Middle-earth films. Deep, intensive dialogue is what truly sets apart the Middle-earth films from "action" films. Based on your wording, you seem to try to put the films on par with some generic action-overdose movie, when that's simply not true.

Let's look at the big picture for a moment: a huge chunk of Fellowship of the Ring was adventure, with heavy dialogue and exploration. The "fight scenes", like the Bridge of Khazad Dum, Nazgul on Weathertop, and the Uruk-hai scene towards the end (the two most major action scenes), make up a very small part of the actual film, if you really think about it. With Two Towers: The Battle of Helm's Deep (and the action scenes leading up to it, like the Warg attack), also make up a very small part of the film, mostly happening towards the end. The only really "action-intensive" film is Return of the King. But how else you expect to convey, I don't know, the deciding battles of the Third Age, without battles and action scenes. Unrealistic expecations much...? Don't even get me started on The Hobbit trilogy, as there are many acceptable reasons as to why they were made that way too.

If the Middle-earth films really had nothing but "fight scenes and epic music", many people would not fall asleep during the first 10 minutes or so. Why? Because the clear truth is, the majority of the Middle-earth films, which you seem to completely miss, is adventure and dialogue. I honestly don't know where on this good earth you are even pulling out the assumption that the films are only "epic music and fight scenes", because you'd have to never have seen the films at all to come up with that assumption. Anyone who's seen the films, even once, would know that dialogue and adventure are the predominant themes in the Middle-earth films, and that gives them more depth than most films in existence. Not "only action scenes".

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