The Lord of the Rings Trilogy or The Dark Knight Trilogy- which do you prefer?

Although I think TDK trilogy is overrated, I’ve never fully understood the hype behind the LOTR movies at all. The LOTR movies are just long and boring with decent lore. At least TDK trilogy provides entertainment and enjoyment imo.

Maybe in your dreams.

The only thing the DKT has better than LOTR is a better villain in the Joker. That's it! LOTR is superior in everything else.

TDK trilogy.

If you say so Emperor.

LOTR

TDK trilogy comfortably for me.

Hard to say, considering I haven't seen LOTR films in a while. Based off what I remember I'd say:

1. The Dark Knight 10/10

2. Batman Begins 9.5/10

3. Return Of The King 9/10

4. The Dark Knight Rises 9/10

5. Two Towers 8/10

6. Fellowship Of The Ring 7/10

With 3 and 4 being comparable in terms of quality, TDK being far above any LOTR film, and 2 being a little ahead of 3, with 6 being a boring and massive weak link. So I'd put the The Dark Knight trilogy considerably above the LOTR Trilogy.

Batman's trilogy are better written movies with much better characters and they really felt like a realistic version of Batman coming to life, LOTR's films are not my cup of tea.

LOTR. The only movie in the TDK trilogy that compares is the Dark Knight. Batman Begins is pretty good but is pretty much overshadowed by TDK, and Rises is pretty good but not as good as TDK. LOTR is a fantastic trilogy throughout.

I must say again though, this comparison makes no sense. Both of these trilogies are trying to accomplish something completely different. It's pretty difficult to say which one is superior to due to both trilogies being fundamentally different.

For me, it's TDK. Partially because I prefer the tone and style, partially because LOTR can be exhausting to get through at times (too much walking), partially because I find Frodo to be an irritating protagonist.

They are def. the two best trilogies of all time, though.

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Tolkienverse >>>>>>>>>>>>> garbage Nolanverse

I think The Fellowship of the Ring had perfect pacing, but The Two Towers and Return of the King could have been tighter. I would have preferred the fight scenes to be cut down so we could get the Faramir/Eowyn romance and Scourging of the Shire from the book.

Action scenes don't hold my attention for long in movies in general, but they were perfect in the Fellowship.

LOTR trilogy

TDK > TTT > FOTR > TDKR = ROTK > BB

Lotr by miles

Lord of the rings

Dark Knight is the only threat

Dark Knight Rises was trash compared to DK

Batman Begins was decent tho I liked it

But Dark Knight would be carrying the trilogy n lord of rings has edge with more better movies outside of dark knight

Pretty much what Morpheus said a year ago. LotR is unbeatable as far as trilogies go.

TDK trilogy, LOTR often dragged

TDKR solos

Dark Knight

LOTR. lol at the folks who voted for TDK trilogy here. Goes to show how delusional comic fanboys are

LOTR for sure.

LOTR easily for me... These Batman movies are mediocre

Surprised at the poll, I'd say the LOTR trilogy is the greatest movie trilogy of all time. If you ranked all 6 movies no TDK film would be in the top 3. Would love to hear the arguments from the people that ranked them differently in this thread.

LOTR without a doubt. Nolan Trilogy is one overrated trilogy. And Objectively Batman Begins is the best film of the trilogy, trio became worse with the each film. I only call Batman Begins "masterpiece" if there is one in the trio

and no, I don't think LOTR is the best trilogy of all times / decade / century. It's just Nolan Trilogy is not in the "great" classment.

TDK trilogy

Tdk trilogy best of all time right with lotr and the og star wars behind it

Lord of The Rings for me. There was a lot more in that trilogy for me to like overall.

Lord of the Rings trilogy stomps.

I think TDK is decisively the best of the 6. But LotR's has better consistency.

In terms of how the movies compliment eachother: This is an unpopular opinion but I think TDKR holds up better on it's own then in context with the trilogy. The problem that arises from TDKR is that the big picture of Batman's story feels very non definitive of a Batman story.

My issue on the LotR's side of things is that it feels very weird that FotR has a character arc of Frodo having to grow in independence and then have him proceed to do basically nothing on his own over the coarse of the next two movies.

Batman Begins, TT (Extended), and RotK (Theatrical) are all pretty close.

1.) The Dark Knight

2.) Fellowship (Extended)

3.) Fellowship (Theatrical)

4.) Return of the King (Theatrical)

5.) Batman Begins

6.) Two Towers (Extended)

7.) Two Towers (Theatrical)

8.) RotK (Extended)

9.) TDKR

Themes: TDKT - TDKR lags a bit though.

Protagonists: LotR

Antagonists: TDKT - Joker specifically obviously

Visual design: LotR - I understand some of the intention but TDK doesn't really have the best gothic asthetic.

Pacing/structure: TDKT - there's some inconsistency on TDKT's side.

Sound Design: LotR - notably when Legalas says "the horn of Gondor" and the camera pans downhill.

Intrigue: TDKT

Action: LotR