Compared to LOTR, Star Wars is like a bad, Japanese-made, Saturday morning cartoon

[astro]

Looks like this third one’s a must see according to Slates’ David Edelstein

This is the best of the three Rings movies—more than that, it makes the others look even better. You can finally see the arc of the trilogy: not just J.R.R. Tolkien’s, with its blend of Norse and Christian myth, but Peter Jackson’s. The New Zealand director got his start in the horror genre and has always grooved on splattery excess and a manic invasiveness. It works like gangbusters for Tolkien, whose demons are the enemies of the land itself. They plunder Middle-earth with infernal machines and try to rip out its guts; they claw for the accursed title Ring of Power like drug addicts. Jackson brings an intensity to the battle of good and evil that makes the stiff, well-mannered drones of George Lucas’ Star Wars epics look like stick figures in a bad, Japanese-made Saturday-morning cartoon.

[Diogenes_the_Cynic]

Well, it walks all over the prequels, that’s for sure.

[Achernar]

The epic battle scenes definitely go to Lord of the Rings, in my opinion. Part of the battle in Return of the King is quite reminiscent of the battle on Hoth, to the point where you feel like Empire Strikes Back copied it, even though it came out 20 years ago.

Star Wars has the better one-on-one swordfights, though. This goes for the prequels as well.

[Lockfist]

The most assinine comparison I’ve seen in a long time. What’s his next insight - “The B-2 Stealth Bomber makes the Wright Brothers Flyer look like a 3-rd grade wet-cardboard tinker toy” ?

The LOTR movies are good but it does not detract from the original Star Wars movies nor should it be compared in this manner.

[Miller]

I’d say their on par with the original Star Wars trilogy. They blow the new ones out of the water. But then, bad Japanese-made Saturday morning cartoons blow the new ones out of the water.