I so agree. Up until the time I saw "Two Towers" the idea of a CGI Gollum made me very nervous. Couldn't imagine how they were going to pull off such a character interacting with real actors. And the interaction between Frodo, Sam and Gollum is pretty much the subtlety and the heart of LOTR- if it doesn't work say good-bye to your last two movies.
What Jackson manages to do with Gollum is amazing. It's so telling that the CGI is so good and so convincing that Gollum as a digital character hasn't been mentioned all that much in the ROTK reviews, folks more talk about how he works as a dramatic character within the overall movie.
Funny how the ground-breaking technical acheivements of these films (remember how astonishing the issue of scale was when we all first saw FOTR?) are so good that their greatest accomplishment is how quickly we stopped noticing them.
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What Jackson manages to do with Gollum is amazing. It's so telling that the CGI is so good and so convincing that Gollum as a digital character hasn't been mentioned all that much in the ROTK reviews, folks more talk about how he works as a dramatic character within the overall movie.
Funny how the ground-breaking technical acheivements of these films (remember how astonishing the issue of scale was when we all first saw FOTR?) are so good that their greatest accomplishment is how quickly we stopped noticing them.
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