100 Films’ 100 Favourites #53—55
Peter Jackson | 685 mins | New Zealand & USA / English & Sindarin | 12 / PG-13
Peter Jackson | 685 mins | New Zealand & USA / English & Sindarin | 12 / PG-13
For obvious reasons, Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is usually listed as the three separate films it was released as. But in the same way J.R.R. Tolkien considered it one long novel that had to be split up for the sake of publication, so too the movies work well — best, one could even argue — as a single 11½-hour experience.
Having inducted the trilogy’s individual instalments into my 100 Favourites series over the past week (and a bit), I’ve covered most aspects of this epic moviemaking endeavour pretty thoroughly already, so here are links to each of my previous entries:
I love these films, best way to watch them in is one go. Makes the experience so epic.
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It really emphasises how well considered they are as a single long story when you watch them in one sitting, too.
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It makes everything so much more epic.
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