Lost his mojo

Watch those LOTR movies again. The direction isn't good. He's never been a good director.

Watch those LOTR movies again. The direction isn't good.

LOL what?

Raging Bull = Best movie

Would you care to elaborate?

He never had any to lose. The guy screws up everything he touches. For him, source material is something to wipe with...

Wtf boy, take a hike. Slating Sir Peter Jackson and then giving the avengers 9/10... lost all credibility.

I can only imagine from your user name and the fact that you've gave pretty much every marvel movie that you've watched a 1, that you're a fan of the marvel universe, and have probably read plenty of the source material. Well, I'm on the other side of that. Don't care about marvel much, so the only thing I've seen is the movies.

Just like how most people who actually rate LotR movies highly, I rate some of the marvel movies highly because I didn't touch the source material.

Go read the Lord of the Rings then tell me that that hack Jackson shouldn't be drawn and quartered for his "looser than your mom" interpretation of the books.

If you have actually read the LotR and still like the movies then you're clearly beyond help...

Most people like me have read LOTR. And love the movies. Like 90% of the population lives them

I think he can be a decent film-maker.

But yeah, his Rings films aren’t all that well made. They’re visually bland with endless close up shots of the actors faces, dull scene blocking, and mediocre photography. There’s not really anything being explored with the mise-en-scene. He typically cuts scenes from a dozen different angles without much interest in cut impact, shot composition, or visual meaning. His adaptation choices are sometimes strange and can show a lack of comprehension when it comes to Tolkien’s books. He butchered Denethor’s character and played his death, one of the book’s darkest and most tragic scenes, as a comical action sequence (note: comedy likely wasn’t intentional, but that flaming run…). Fellowship of the Ring’s first half feels very rushed, the sense of time is all over the place.

He took Frodo, an active and interesting protagonist, and made him to a passive, dewy-eyed innocent one. I don’t like how contrived Merry and Pippin’s coming on the journey is. They just happen into it: none of the naive bravery and friendship of the book. He’s also painfully unsubtle at times. He tends overuse false peril and exaggerated “oh no – will they die moments!” for all their worth. So often his ‘sad’ scenes are overbearingly handled, relying on a blaring score over intense close ups of teary-eyed actors, and some slow motion thrown in.