“It’s been really gratifying, I have to say,” Ford said. “A lot of that is because of Jon, who has surprised me with his spirit and his insight, and I only say that I was surprised because I knew him better as an actor than as a filmmaker. He’s a very clever actor but as a director he’s shown that he can solve the problems that come up every day and not become mechanical.”

“I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you’ve lost human scale,” Ford said. “With the CGI, suddenly there’s a thousand enemies instead of six – the army goes off into the horizon. You don’t need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That’s something that’s consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that’s a soulless enterprise. It’s all kinetics without emotion. I don’t have time for that.”

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"Der Herr der Ringe" ist ein schlechtes (Negativ-)Beispiel, da hier auch im großen Schlachtengetümmel immer wieder auf die Hauptfiguren eingegangen wird... die Einzelschicksale werden gezeigt.

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So gehen die Meinungen auseinander.
Ich fand persönlich die großen Schlachten in Herr der Ringe keinesfalls langweilig oder spannungsarm. Wenn der Film fesseln kann ist es in meinen Augen egal ob Menschen, Puppen oder Bits+Bytes gegeneinander kämpfen.

Ist euch eh allen der Vergleich zwischen "tausend Feinden" und den "sechs" aufgefallen, entgegen derer Jung-Harrison schon einst auf dem Todesstern (in der Originalversion) lief