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Old July 12th, 2017 #431
N.B. Forrest
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Fellowship & The Return of the King are magnificent; The Two Towers, just a bit of a lag, in comparison. That was the moment when CGI finally advanced to the point of enabling the realistic portrayal of even the wildest fantasy visions in a way that props & animatronics never could.

The Hobbit movies since are OK, but definitely inferior: a dragon with an English accent just doesn't make it after a Balrog & Sauron's Eye.
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