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Rewatching last m=night I was struck by how huge this achievement was. Jurassic Park was the Mercury missions. This skipped Viking. It was as big a leap over ILM tech of Jurassic Park era as ILM had been over trad 80s tech. They basically invented a new era of FX.
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And the capital raise had to deal with Harvey Weinstein assholery along the way and it might have turned into a horrible 1 or 2 film treatment driven by scared bean counters if New Line hadn’t rescued the project from Miramax and let Jackson go all out.
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Concurrently shooting 3 major movies at once and keeping the architecture coherent and startlingly true to the books (at least by my standards) across this country-scale project over 438 days, when Jackson was apparently sleeping just 4h/day…
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This is systems engineering at its finest. The filming was radically out of order and fragmented due to logistics complexity apparently. Some scenes had shots filmed a year apart. Yet the in-story chronology flows beautifully. The temporal continuity must have been nightmarish.
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My take has always been the opposite. A mass/machine produced trilogy that always felt like exactly that. Impressive project management, but an average product. Especially 2 and 3.
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Yes. Enjoyed the first one but never really got excited or emotional. By the time of the third one... just hours of generic, bland, green screen warfare? Also matter of taste I suppose. I've never been one for epic world building.. or 'canon'. Gimme a tight film every time.
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