Dark Jaguar Wrote:I'm sure a lot of that depth was INTENDED, but it's never brought across. On the other hand, an equally simple story manages to actually DO the job of conveying the human condition, because it's much more well written, Lord of the Rings. You can actually feel what's going on in their minds. Now, the thing about Star Wars is that it has POTENTIAL to be a great story that can convey the same thigns, but Lucas just isn't a good story teller. I bet of all the things I could have said, that offended you most didn't it? Because the story isn't as well told as it could be, it ends up merely being a fun adventure for a sunday afternoon, rather than a moving experience the whole world diagnoses.
You state that as if it were fact. When I watched the Rings trilogy I had very little interest in the story and characters, as they weren't just simple (which is fine), but had no emotional hook for me. The story is about some people on a quest to throw a ring into some lava. It doesn't get much deeper than that. And the characters? Gollum had immense potential, but in the end his character was the exact same as it was in the beginning, so the his arc was completely pointless. I was somewhat intrigued by where his character would go in TTT, but then by the end of RoTK I was just thinking "what the hell did that accomplish??". He was there to show how powerful the draw of the Ring was, but they already established that long before he came into the picture. Very poorly-developed character. None of the other characters stick out, as their story arcs are very simple and the moral of their arcs paper-thin. Yes okay Frodo is just a poor little Hobbit who has a really tough time carrying the Ring, but what else? Why should we care that he has a tough time wearing the ring around his neck? I can see where what they were trying to do with his character, but in the end all I felt was "that must have been rough". They were entertaining movies for the pretty effects and gorgeous New Zealand scenery, but in the end all they proved to me was just how terrible most Hollywood movies are today that they consider LoTR to be a "powerful, deep" movie even though it's just one big special effects fest with very little emotional resonance. Perhaps the books are much better at making you care for the plot and characters which is why you love it so much, but as someone who has only seen the movies I was not very impressed.