Film Theorist Question

[Emily F]

First of all, I'm at work and a little busy (so why am I not working, you 
ask?  ;D) so hopefully I can get my point across in a relatively short post. 
  This talk of the LOTR and HP movies has reminded me of something I thought 
about while watching the FOTR uber-DVD for the thousandth time.  For those 
of you who own it, have you listened to all the commentary and watched all 
the special features?  I did, and the one thing that really stood out for me 
was how much EVERYONE who worked on any part of the movie genuinely CARED 
about the film they were making.  The actors spent time in the workshop 
admiring the work of the special effects folks.  Peter Jackson himself spent 
hundreds of hours with those performing the digital imaging to make every 
scene just right.  The composer wrote several "themes" to catpture the 
emotion of each scene, rather than writing one blanket theme and using it 
over and over.  After thinking about all of this, I gained a new 
appreciation for the LOTR movies.  All those involved in the film really 
worked hard - not because they were paid to, but because it was important to 
them that the product they made was truly excellent.

Unfortunately, this care really seems to be lacking in PS/SS and CoS.  
That's why I'm not happy with the HP movies (well, among other reasons that 
have already been explained by others).  I certainly don't mean to imply 
that no one's trying, but the love of what they're doing just doesn't seem 
to be there.  Everyone involved seems perfectly alright with the fact that 
the movies are sub-par.  Or maybe I've just been spoiled by Peter Jackson.  
:-)

Emily

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