Neoteny:

lord of the rings trilogy. as someone who read the books i expected less.

from the shire, osgiliath, rohan/edoras, lothlorien, rivendell, cirith ungol, orthanc tower, dead marshes all the way to mordor i kept saying "wow"!

and of course the music score helped.

before that was blade runner in the early nineties. i thouht nothing could touch that before peter jackson came along

iice:

Mehnnn you get am. . .
It's the most beautiful movie i have seen.  I still get goosebumps everytime i watch it. Am not tired of watching it over and over again.

Neoteny:

kai, you get taste o! that music score and the vistas cannot be touched. see the subdued colors in rivendell, the dreamy bluish scene in galadriel's tree community of lorien. even the water looked surreal.

then compare with the dry brownish tinge of the dead marshes, the paleness of bree and the stark bleakness of mordor and the green of morgul vale.

see what the did with Argonath, the huge statues of kings on either side of the river in Fellowship. exactly as Tolkien described in the book!

every scene had some fantasy color scheme and its own righteous music. rohan had cool wind instruments, mordor had thundering drums, . and the shots are so drawn out and panned so you take it all in. see the pelennor fields. kai, i can go on all day.

did you know, in the 5-DVD collectors edition (which i proudly own and the total damage was only $16.97) there are cool extras like the houses of healing.

Infact eh an e-kiss for you
The score was perfect. . .falling into the exact place at the exact time.
The visuals are awesome. . .yes the king statues, everytime i see it, i get the feeling of awe. I know exactly what the remaining fellowship felt when they passed them. Visually it is a feast! Every sweep of the camera gives you awesome plains/mountains/cities/battalions and what not. (Oooohhh the music for the Orcs and Urukai, mehn i play it over and over in my head hehehe)
I love how you get the ethereal feeling from the non-humans.
I don't even know which place is my favorite. . .i like Gondor, i like Rivendell, i like the shire, i like Moldor sef

doyin13:

I must say. . . . Tunde Kelani is quite a cinematographer.

Thunderbolt Magun was immaculately shot.