So just today started watching LOTR 1 and it seems quite weird. Not the AV or acting but the cuts in the movie. Almost every scene feels like it was cut abruptly and a new scene was posted just after that. One moment they are doing this, the next moment they are in a different place. No smooth transition in story. Is it just me? I haven't finished the movie yet.
LOTR1 seems weird
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As a die hard fan of both the books and the movies, I will agree that one of the biggest aging points of the movie is its high cut editing. A lot of it was because of the way the started filming the short characters. It gets better in the later movies
I don't think there is any other way to introduce rings, sauron, valar, witches, elfs, dwarfs, hobbits and all the characters in short time without high cut editing
There really isn’t a better way unless you tack on a whole extra movie to do it. It’s also something Peter Jackson likes imo as an editing style. Still a killer trilogy with effects, themes, acting and cinematography that holds up to this day
Yea the movie seems good but it's the cuts that are throwing me off i dont think I have seen an edit work quite like that
maybe because you watched the theatrical release first so you found extended better. and im getting fresh into the extended version so I am watching it without any prior comparison
after the company disbands the movies are much more divided as they show you the point of view of each character (Frodo/sam, Aragorn and co, merry/pippin etc...) so I'd say that it's actually more cut I'd say but from my experience it's always felt quite natural. At least it's never disturbed me
you should watch the extended versions if you have time for it, everything flows a lot better
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