The Evolution of The Lord of the Rings Movies

After ten-year departure, a new The Lord of the Rings movie comes back with a vengeance. In the opening weekend, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has gotten record-breaking 85 million dollars in box office. However, even such performance of An Unexpected Journey is not out of everyone's expectations. After years' evolution, The Lord of the Rings movies have not only become the most profitable movie sage but also posed great influence on the generation. Moreover, as time goes by, The Lord of the Ring movie is turning better and better.

The earliest The Lord of the Rings movie was released in 1978 while the latest one, An Unexpected Journey, is debut in 2012. After going through over 20-year evolution, The Lord of the Rings movie has managed the switch from an animated movie to a well-loved fancy movie and from a low-budget movie to a blockbuster one. In fact, those switches are managed by five movies. Therefore, this post will cover on the evolution of The Lord of the Rings movies.

1. The Lord of the Rings

The earliest The Lord of the Rings movie is an animated movie made in 1978. Directed on the basis of the famous novels written by Tolkien, the animated movie mainly deals with the hazardous journey of a hobbit named Frodo to Mordor for the sake of destroying a magic ring. However, this The Lord of the Rings movie is of little influence and never become world famous. The 30 million-dollar performance is good enough for a movie only released in 31 theaters. However, this novel oriented movie is rarely remembered as a The Lord of the Ring movie.

2. The Fellowship of the Ring   

The successful journey of The Lord of the Rings movie actually starts from The Fellow of the Ring. As the first movie of The Lord of the Rings trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, The Fellow of the Ring is actually a low-budget movie. In order to save expanses, the director had to hire most local actors for the movie. However, the excellent performance of those non-famous actors had created a miracle by pushing the movie to the throne of the most profitable movie of the year. Since then, the victory of The Lord of the Rings movies becomes irresistible.  This movie mainly tells about the thrilling journey of Frodo and his guardians to Mordor.

3. The Two Towers

In 2002, Peter Jackson moved on with another The Lord of the Rings movie named The Two Towers who did even better than its predecessor. The Two Towers is a movie perfectly combining beautiful scenery, thrilling journey and wonderful background music into an integrated part. For someone who contributed the successes of The Fellow of the Ring to some lucky factors, this The Lord of the Rings movie was a good return fire. The two towers in the movie can be understood in two ways. The dark towers including the eye of Mordor and the alliance between Sauron and Saruman and the bright towers of Frodo and Aragorn. In this The Lord of the Rings movie, Aragorn needs to defend the invasion of Sauron while Frodo continues his hard journey to ruin the ring.

4. The Return of the King

It is a known story that audiences love fancy story while Oscar hates it. However, The Return of the King is an exception to the rule. As the most profitable movie of the year, this The Lord of the Ring movie also became the biggest winner in the ceremony of Academy Awards. With over 1.11 billion dollars in box office, The Return of the King had become one of the most profitable novel based movies, giving a perfect ending to Peter Jackson's trilogy movie. In this The Lord of the Rings movie, Aragorn leads his fellows and arms to the final battle with Sauron's army while Frodo needs to fight against the temptation send by the magic ring. The Return of the King is a milestone in the movie world, setting a good example for all fancy movies. Of course, not all the movies that are money-earning and award-winning, The Return of the King is probably the best one.

5. An Unexpected Journey

After waving good-bye to the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings movie, audiences need to welcome the coming of the trilogy of The Hobbit movie. As a most expected 2012 December movie and the prequel of The Lord of the Rings movies, The Hobbit: An unexpected Journey has proven itself a real market hit. Though the success of An Unexpected Journey can be contributed to the successes of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the movie is actually trying to bring audiences new thrills and surprises. Without Aragorn and his little team, An Unexpected Journey tries to impress audience with the new alliance of brave dwarves. This The Lord of the Rings movie mainly deals with the thrilling journey of Bilbo, the uncle of Frodo. Instead of fighting against evil armies, Bilbo needs to struggle against evil dragons, wild animals and every trap nature may have prepared beforehand.

Top 5 Most Profitable Novel Based Movies

Even the mighty James Bond doesn't know what to do with the vampire couples. With ideal Cyber Monday deals, Thanksgiving 2012 holiday is a paradise for all consumers; with anticipated fall movies, Thanksgiving 2012 holiday is the Garden of Eden for movie fans. As one of the most well-known novel based movies, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 remains to be the leader in box office ranking list, lagging Skyfall far behind. Even though some loftily expected movies have been released this week, they all failed to waver the dominance of  Breaking Dawn, Part 2.

Compared to Breaking Dawn, Part 2, another novel based movie named Life of Pi is not that lucky. Even with 22 million dollars box office income in the opening weekend, Life of Pi still failed to live up to audiences' expectations.  Since plenty of novel based movies tend to be made each year, it is not an uncommon story to witness a famous novel based movie suffers waterloo in movie market. For example, besides Life of Pi, another novel based movie named Cloud Atlas also disappointing the world. After all, only a few novel based movies can both earn good names in reputation and profits in box office. Therefore, this post will introduce you top five most profitable novel based movies of all time.

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II

As the most profitable novel-based movie of all time, Harry Potter and the Death Hallows: Part II gained over 1.32 billion dollars in box office, created new record for single-day box office performance and even become the best July movie of all time. Of course, the great success of this Harry Potter movie is partly due to the great success of Harry Potter novels. As one of the best-selling book in Amazon, Harry Potter novels are always favored by readers of all ages. In this novel based movie, Harry Potter needs to search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes to kill the dark lord. However, after Harry knows he is one of those Horcruxes, he decides to sacrifice for his career.

2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Few fantasy movies can attract the attention of Oscar and even less can be the final winner. The Return of the King is just one of those winners. As a low-budget movie, The Return of the King manages to become one of the best movies of all time, marking a perfect end to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. With over 1.11 billion dollars, this novel based movie ranks fourth as the most profitable movie of all time. The Return of the King is produced according to a famous novel written by J.R.R. Tolkien in mid 1990s. In fact, three movies of The Lord of The Ring are all made basing on the same novel.  Till now, the novel The Lord of the Rings is still one of the best-selling books in the market. This novel based movie mainly deals with the final fight between human beings and Sauron's army. Frodo needs to destroy the ring while Aragorn fights the army.

3. Alice in Wonderland

As one of the well-known novels in history, Alice in Wonderland enjoys great reputations for centuries around the world. Therefore, there are various movies made on the basis of this novel. Among them, Alice in Wonderland, the 2010 movie, is probably the most successful one. Also Alice is one of the most successful 3D movies in history. With over 1.02 billion dollars in box office, this novel based movie is on the list of top 10 most profitable movies of all time. In this novel based movie, Alice travels to a wonderland after getting through a rabbit hole. When she finds the world is under the shadow of the evil Red Queen, she needs to fulfill her destiny by beating the queen with her friends.

4. The Hunger Games

As the best-selling books in Amazon, The Hunger Game trilogy beats seven Harry Potter books in a rather short time. Moreover, two sequels of The Huger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay are promising to beat Harry Potter movies in box office in the next two years. As the first movie of The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games not only becomes the best movie released in Mar, but also stirs the topic of The Hunger Games vs The Avengers. With 408 million dollars, The Hunger Games turns out to be one of the most profitable movies in 2012. As a profitable novel based movie, The Hunger Games goes along with the plot in Suzanne Collins's novel. In this movie, Katniss is one of the 24 tributes who need to fight each other to death in a fighting show of Capitol. She finally gets her survive with the help of her fellow tribute named Peeta. However, when she wins the match, she realizes it is just a start.

5. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2

Since its release, the novel based movie has dominated the movie market during Thanksgiving 2012 holiday. As the final movie of Twilight sage, Breaking Down, Part 2 mainly deals with the final fate of the vampire lovers. When Bella and Edward have given birth to Renesmee, the whole family needs to find a way to protect the baby from being hunted by Volturi. So far, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 has gained over 141 million dollars in domestic market in box office. Therefore, it will be just a matter of time for it to become the best and most profitable Twilight movie. However, contrary to other novel based movies mentioned above, the movie does much better than the novel in terms of influence.  To some extent, the success of Twilight, the novel, can be contributed to the popularization of Twilight movies.

2 Anticipated 2012 3D Movies with Decent 3D Effects

Since the great success of The Avatar, the world has been crazy for 3D movie. This year, another blockbuster movie named The Avengers had further enhanced the charm of 3D movie with amazing box office performance. However, according to CNET news, though many 2012 3D movies have been released so far, none had taken full advantages of 3D effects.

For many people, 3D movie not only means terrific 3D effects but also higher ticket price and extra burdens for the eyes. In other word, sometimes watching 3D movie is not as comfortable as it is supposed to be. According to some experts, decent 3D effects require 4 percent occupancy of the screen's width while cinema only provides 0.5 percent. To this extent, the 2012 3D movies we have watched in the cinema are all semi-finished goods.

However, good news is that two 3D movies may provide us decent 3D effects via innovations in 3D technologies. Moreover, they are both anticipated 2012 3D movies. Here this post will introduce you the two anticipated 2012 3D movies that may bring technological innovations to 3D field.  

1. The Great Gatsby

As a famous novel written by Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby ranks second in the list of greatest novels of all time. As an anticipated 2012 3D movie, The Great Gatsby is starred by DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire and will be available in December. As the fifth movie made basing on the novel, The Great Gatsby is promising to gain unprecedented success with new 3D technology.

The Great Gatsby mainly focuses on how a poor man named Nick is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy. In the movie, Gatsby is a rich man with lavish life and mysterious past. Later, Nick finds Gatsby's crush on Daisy and decides to help him. However, the tragedy starts from that point.

2. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

As the latest member of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey attracts great attention for the tremendous successes of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Hobbit will focus on the story of how Frodo's uncle goes through a journey with thirteen dwarf warriors and gets the ring from Gollum. Of course, just as the title shows, they will meet a lot of unexpected difficulties.

As an adventure and fancy movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is an ideal candidate for 3D movies. For one thing, 3D effects can vividly present audience the thrilling adventures of those Hobbits. For another, 3D effects can help to make the scenes in the movie impressive which is a key factor for the success of The Lord of the Rings series. Therefore, maybe this 2012 3D movie can bring us unexpected surprises.

All in all, The Great Gatsby and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey are the two 2012 3D movies with revolutionary attempts to change 3D field. Before they are available, a good way for fans to get access to 3D movies is to convert DVDs to 3D movies with 2D to 3D converters. Otherwise, they can buy tickets for 2D movies in the cinema.