Lord of the rings was movie making at its peak, everything has gone downhill since.

It's simple, they cared about the project and didn't rush to release it in a month-half a year. Patience and devotion always make beautiful things happen.

It's amazing how good Lord of the rings is

Keep in mind: James Cameron had the idea for his "Avatar" movies for years before 2009. However, he didn't think it could be brought to life until he saw The Two Towers, and how good Golum's CGI was. Until then, he didn't think that VFX could handle creating a fully-immersive alien world. Peter Jackson's trilogy revolutionized cinematography as much as ILM did with star wars, at least if not more.

Greatest movies ever made

I saw an exhibit of props from TTT in Toronto, and everything, EVERYTHING, was superbly detailed, whether it was featured or in the background. There was a hanging that was embroidered with the Two Trees, silver and gold, on silk chiffon. It was exquisite, and you can just barely glimpse it in the background in the scene where Elrond tells Arwen her fate if she stays with Aragorn. There was a swan in the hilt of the sword for Prince Imrahil, who wasn’t even shown in the films. Theoden’s sword Herugrim, with the horse heads on the hilt, just spectacular! ❤‼

I have no end of respect for the artists and craftspeople who make props, sets, and costumes for films, and those who do makeup and hair. I always notice this stuff and think what a wonderful job it is, how fun it sounds to get to do that kind of creative work. They're so imaginative and talented and without them, films wouldn't work. The best of what they do "disappears" into the background because the world feels so real and alive. Thanks all you wonderful unsung heroes of cinema!

The entire production team did an absolutely tremendous job. A testament to true craftsmanship and artistry. What a fantastic trilogy.

Those sweeping shots over the Minas Tirith model are still peak cinema.

Lord of the Rings is just perfect. *THE* best trilogy of all time!!!!! Too many awesome moments to count!!!!!!!! Harry Potter can’t be compared to this. Pirates of the Caribbean can’t be compared to this. Star Wars can’t even be compared to the awesomeness that is the Lord of the Rings!!!!!! I can’t say which one’s my favorite: Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers, or even Return of the King. All 3 of these movies are amazing!!!!!! To watch the Extended Editions in theaters…that would be just a dream come true!!!!!!!! I don’t deny that they’re really long, we’re talking 12 hours in total, but it’d be worth it!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree and i did not realise how much they incorporated physical models into the visusl blend along with the cgi.

1:25 you can see Orthanc surrounded by trees, before the Orcs were ordered to deforest Isengard, at a later point in the movie. For these shots, they surrounded the miniature with essentially a giant photograph of Fall foliage, called a Translight. They use a similar technique for movies like Die Hard, where their entire set is surrounded by a wrap-around photograph of the city outside the windows. Even though for Orthanc, they didn't use the translight as background, they did use it so that the reflections in the waxy tower would accurately mirror the colors of its surroundings. It's this type of attention to detail which will always put LotR a cut above the rest.

the more I learn about the lotr trilogy, the more impressed I become

I just heard that L.O.T.R. will be re-released into cinemas with additional footage added to each film. I really hope they get shown near my town, because I will be there! And the one(s) who created this segment failed to acknowledge the participation of Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman; having him play that part was pure genius, and added to the authenticity of the movies!

That's why it is an immortal masterpiece.

those movies are just a pinnacle of human artistic achievement

I loved watching all the BTS videos on the DVDs eons ago when I bought them (both theatrical cuts and extended editions). It's mind-blowing how much detail they put into everything from hobbit holes to clothes to eating utensils. I also think it's awesome that Weta called their miniatures "bigatures" because they were larger, in most cases, than typical film miniatures. These movies are the best, and will be around for eons.

Your channel is so underrated. Great video about a great film trilogy.

Props and practical effects will always look better than cgi

A friend and I heard that Peter Jackson was going to make a Lord of the Rings film trilogy some years beforehand, and what we read made us both very excited. Seeing how he envisioned his films were going to be set our expectations very high, and I'm pleased to say, those expectations were exceeded by some margin. And yes, even now, so many years later, those films do not disappoint in any way!

As Isengard lover that is great! Thank you!

dont think we can ever go back to such kind of filmmaking as we had in the 2000s with lord of the rings, harry potter star wars and so on. That was true perfection

*Practical and special effects at their finest.*

My favorite movie franchise of all time. It is true it has aged amazingly. PJ and all the people who worked on the movies did an amazing job. The VFR is so seamless that the viewer just accept it( eg the Balrog). In many movies you can see the superimposed VFR image( eg the Rancor from Return of the Jedi) and even today with the predominate use of the green screens. In PJ LOTR everything just flows together. Every detail was meticulously researched and incorporated in such a way that seems unnoticed by us like Eowyn and Merry on the phony pony in the battle of Minas Tirith. The chargins cavalry was so well placed around them while the camera was focusing on them that they appeared to be part of charge itself. and don't make me start on the makeup department. Until few months ago( and I have watched the movie many times) I didn't noticed until it was pointed to me that in the final scene of the two towers when the battle of Helm's deep was one that the person on Eomer horse wasn't Eomer at all but his stunt double. It is just mind blowing to know that the post production team who had looked very carefully at each frame had managed to miss that. Congratulation to the makeup department as it took me 20 years to see that.

exactly and nowadays the movie makers change the whole plot and want the movie to be famous just like the books, the only movies that stayed true to the books are HP movies and LOTR are legendary, however, examples like Vampire Academy where the books were brilliant but the movie makers changed the ethnicity of the main characters, changed the plot and they want it to be famous?

Great vid. Subscribed

I wonder where this model is now. I hope it still exists.

I remember being an 19 old brat getting comfy in seats of my local theater for the release of Fellowship along side of a friend. We were both blown away by how beautiful the movie were back in 2001 that we DID the same for Two towers ending with us going for a cavalcade were we watch the two first ending with Return of the King midnight premier in the same theater and with the same seats we had for the two first movies :P It was awesome

A quality on it's own. I highly doubt such film, with such devotion to detail will ever again be made

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The LotR trilogy is a modern wonder of the world.

I still have issues with the bad CGI were the group is running through the mines. It's a shot from far away with all those pillars. That CGI group looks so off to me compared to the rest of the movies...

WHERE THE HELL IS THE ORTHANC TOWER MODEL TODAY ????!!!!!! I want to find it, and TAKE IT HOME ! 😂😂

Nothing (barely nothing) made today has this much effort put into them..

Thank you for mentioning the Lengh in meters, within the video. As a European my mind can't even imagine what 59 feet is :D

The BEST 💯💯💯💯💯

I still love to play Lotr 2 on isengard base😊 love it

I love this movie trilogy. Has to be one of the best trilogies ever made

As time foes on and our screens get better I’m noticing the age of the films. We dont have CRTs anymore, and you dont have to go to a movie theather to see a big high resolution screen like in the old times.

This movie is epic, love it.

No matter how good CGI gets, it will NEVER stand up to good old fashioned practical effects, especially in the long run. I'm so glad that Jackson used them in as many places as he could because it shows in the longevity of these films and how well they hold up.

masterpiece

Jackson called these enormous miniatures: 'biggatures.'

There are somethings that hold up well to this day, but other things looks ridiculous

I still hear Saruman's line when I see that shot in the thumbnail: "I have SEEN it!"

Did they preserved this?

Lord of the Rings , Harry Potter and Matrix , the 3 best franchises of all times indeed

How films should still be made, CGI isn't supposed to be noticed.

yes

He should have done the Amazon version.

When you do scenography, using the same amount of time and people needed for cgi

We're waiting for the silmarilion movie

Well, to be honest, watching the movies in the current 4k HDR version reveals many cracks in the vfx that combine the landscapes and cgi or miniatures. And it's not particularly sharp 4k.

And here we have Adipurush in India.

LOTR is a once in a lifetime trilogy.

😍😍😍

Facts

Is this Battlefront Updates talking?

How much of the budget cost probably like 1 billion

aah yes even more facts i can annoy people with when we are watching the trilogy

Better than marvel movies today

The content>the “lookk

Back when movies were actually good

damn, I thought to be more realistic, Peter Jackson moved to Middle-Earth to make the movies

And ILM didn’t do it?

are you battlefront updates?

Bigatures

The creaziest part about all the great CGI in movies as old as LORT is that it isn't CGI at all. Today I bet they could do it all with CGI but I bet it still would cost more than practical effects, for movies as long as LOTR extended editions. CGI used to be so much harder to do, like back then I bet most movies would contract out individual shots to different effects studios, because it took so much time that no one effects studio could handle it all, so in the credits for a movie back then you'd see dozens of CGI effects companies listed. These days Disney would do it all in-house.

Like a good boy that I am, I rewatch LotR now and then, and really the single one thing that aged rather poorly in terms of visuals is the CGI keying of characters with fluffy hair, like Frodo. This is perhaps most obvious in scenes when Frodo and Sam are in Mordor whenever they're overlayed on top of volcano footage. Around their hair, the weird 2000s-photoshop-esque blur is very obvious to a modern day viewer. I wonder if that particular aspect could be improved when upscaling it with AI 🤔 I honestly have never noticed anything else to look bad enough to warrant a comment.

¨battlefront updates😮

Marvel should learn from Petter

I hate cgi , I love models even if it is obvious sometimes

I dont agree it still loks good. Some CGI scene actually look quite awful. But for the time when it was done and the limits of technology I give them all the respect Edit: actually I change my mind they do still look great. Just some cgi scenes/characters look unconvincing

Not to mention the swords, designed and built by a master swordmaker by hand, and the authentic costumes, and the all-star cast. A lot of things that made it a timeless masterpiece that were then cut for cheapness sake or for political signalling.

how about the hobbit?

How to make a good movie: 1. don't let it reflect world, time and politics we live in

Why do you add non optional subtitles to the video, when KZfaq gives a perfect subtitle and can also translate it in almost a hundred different languages??? You're just ruining the picture. Also the speaker is very good understandable, I'm not even native english speaker but can understand him very well. It's just distracting and make you look down and miss much of the video part when you do understand every single word anyway.

LoTR paid attention. The Hobbit really didn't. And it shows.

CGI is used to make things look real, so real stuff will always look better.

just rewatched it all, actually doesn't hold anymore imo VFX wise

So weird that the LOTR looks do good and The Hobbit so bad

but where are they taking the hobbits

When everything is made by AI, it enters an uncanny valley that looks fake.

Lotr was good because all elements were good. Including story. And this is the reason "hunt for gollum" will be bad.

That sea of skulls effect in ROTK didn't age well. at all

becose new amazon series looks like shit simple answer

Almost as good as the Star Wars prequels!

Because it used no fucking cgi. It did not look like a video game

Some scenes kinda look shit today