The musical score is also a mess - noise, bombastic, overbearing and obvious to death...

Of course I am talking about Ralph Bakshi's incomplete version of the two first books, done in 1978.

I found a really hilarious critic about it HERE!... Have a good laugh!

--Brian

Can't wait to see the new one in December. It looks truly amazing.

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Originally posted by Dave:
Oh Andre your such a good spirit...at least half the time

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The other half I run from people who can't see it and hate my guts...

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Originally posted by André Lux:
I finally was able to see the movie last night and, altough I REALLY wanted to like it, can only say it's quite awful.

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I also watched it yesterday (got the DVD), and now I finally understand why everybody dislikes it THAT much: The voices! The German dub isn't nearly as horrible (and they even corrected some errors that were made in the English version, like the Saruman/Aruman confusion). It has it's flaws, but it still gives you something of a Tolkien feeling. But the English voices ruin about everything there's left.

But the score IS a masterpiece.

BTW, I don't agree with all of the points in that review (I've read it several times during the last few years): I've never heard "sappy pseudo-cheerful woodland Elf-music" in the whole film, and the Elves aren't any brighter than the others (except that Legolas is wearing white clothing). Or the bit about the cave troll in slow motion...of course Tolkien never wrote something about slow motion, but they have to leave the director SOME artistic decisions. I think that part worked rather well. Or the complaint about the Orcs singing - it isn't even said that the ORCS are singing, it's just part of the soundtrack (and there'll be a LOT of singing in Shore's score).

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Originally posted by Marian Schedenig:

But the score IS a masterpiece.

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The score is not bad at all, but it's far from being a masterpiece. In fact it works much better on album, because with the movie it's a complete mess.

Rosenman was able to creat some quite good passages and themes, but they are most of the time ruined by his weak maneirismos - many of them can also be found on his cheesy STAR TREK IV and ROBOCOP 2 scores.

NP: Arnold Schönberg Piano Concerto
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Brendel/Kubelik

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Originally posted by Nicolai P. Zwar:
Leonard Rosenman's score for [b]The Lord of The Rings is a timeless masterpiece. If I would make a list of my ten favorite soundtrack CDs, Intrada's release of this magnificent music would be among my first choices. It's a spiky and edgy score, unconventional (about how many film scores can you say that?) and inventive. Film scores don't get any better than this.[/B]

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Amen! Though I still maintain that the middle passage of the Mithrandir theme is a 1:1 ripoff from Holst's Jupiter. But it's still great.

The movie itself is technically apt but truncated and lacking in spirit.

I mean, all those cheesy and incredible poor musical bridges he likes to use all the time would at leat sound original on LOTR.

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Originally posted by Kimiakane:
Wow, Andre, you really put a lot of work into that review. Guess you really adore it, eh?

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Sorry for calling you "mate". Didn't know you are a chick! Must check the profiles more often...

BTW, you are gorgeous, Galina! (I hope she didn't sue me for saying this...)