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In lugnet.castle, Aaron Dalan writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Nathan Todd writes:
> > Somebody had to reply...granted it didn't have to me but...
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> > Don't mess with a good thing. A classic work such as LOTR does not
> > need extra confrontation between the characters (Legolas and Aragon),
> > villians (almost Fairamir), people falling off cliffs ?!?!?!, etc. etc.
> >
> > End of rant and God Bless,
> >
> > Nathan
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> The juvenile exchanges between Aragorn and Legolas were bad enough, but as
> the movie progressed, I started to get downright p/o'd. Faramir "captures"
> Frodo and starts bringing him back towards Minas Tirith? Treebeard is a
> halfwit who has to be TRICKED by Pippen into fighting Isengard? Frodo and
> Sam stumbling towards the black gate, but hiding under a jacket in a sand
> pit to avoid detection? An army of Elves at Helm's deep? WHY??? It
> wouldn't have taken any longer to stick closer to Tolkien's story. In fact
> they added quite of horrible dialogue and took the story in totally
> illogical directions. Very, very disappointing.
Well, that's one negative vote against millions of positive. Not to say
that you're wrong, but let's remember that the film is an adaptation, and
Almighty Tolkien penned more than his fair share of terrible dialogue, and
he was frankly far to verbose in his handling of character development, and
he suffers from the same penchant for goofy names that seems to afflict
George Lucas.
Yes, I love Tolkien's writing, but I don't revere his vision as paramount.
For instance, Jackson's simultaneous portrayal of the three plotlines plays
much more effectively than Tolkien's sequential telling.
You're certainly entitled to be disappointed, but if you demand that the
director adhere religiously to the original, flaws and all, then you're
always going to be disappointed.
Dave!
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| (...) My son loved it and it got him to read "The Hobbit", so it can't be all bad! Lucas wins the goofy-names contest hands down. Tolkien, on the other hand, wins the tedious and confusing names contest: Melkor, also known as Morgoth, and named "The (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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