Happy Holidays, and Don’t Miss LOTR!
So, I just wrapped up a couple of projects that needed to be sent out before year’s end, and everything is ready for my trip to San Francisco. All I would like to do is now wish you the best holiday season ever, and a New Year full of successes. Also, I couldn’t leave without sharing my thoughts about the last installment of The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) series, which I just saw last night…
Though I’ve been playing the game, and thus had a sneak preview at quite a few scenes from the movie, The Return of the King is nothing less than breathtaking, and the golden seal for the best sequel I’ve ever seen in my life. Undoubtedly the best movie of the trilogy, it brings such dramatic photography, to the mix of epic battles, friendship and rock solid loyalty. I doubt Peter Jackson will ever see this blog post, but I leave here my admiration and congratulations nonetheless, to him and everybody who made it possible bringing LOTR to the big screen.
Friends of mine and I, very fond on fiction novels, discussed many times about the great challenge of making a movie from Tolkien’s story would be. So great, most probably nobody would care or be able to achieve success, as it has happened with other productions that attempted similar great novels from authors like Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Phillip Farmer, among others, and ended up with cheap B movies, to say the least… It is perhaps its production design which makes LOTR stand out, since it was made as a whole, unique and huge movie, and then divided for screening, saving resources in the process but making it a very hard task at the same time.
Anyway, I usually don’t recommend movies and stuff, but in this case, even if you are not too much into this kind of reading, LOTR is something you shouldn’t miss.