Just some replies to some great comments I’ve just read on this thread….<P>SaucepanMan<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Maybe I have the wrong impression, but it seems to me that, after an initial flurry of appreciation, this forum seems to have become rather negative towards the film, with the majority of recent posts being critical of it. Like you, Essex, I really cannot bring myself to be too critical, given the impact that the film has had on me. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I really feel pity towards those who have become critical of this film. I was exactly like this when I first saw Two Towers. I was so gutted I did not like TT when I first saw it. (It took a couple of viewings to like it and the EE is a masterpiece). I spent a lot of time worrying if ROTK could be that good, but thankfully it was (even with the cinema lights on that they couldn’t turn off on my first viewing!). On second viewing it is even better. I really do feel sorry towards those who don’t like the film.<P>Mark12_30<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>It has given me a new and fresh enjoyment of the boks as they are. On several counts my overly simplistic view of the books has been challenged and expanded by this film. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I’ve loved reading lotr each time I’ve first seen each of the films over the past couple of years. I can’t believe it sometimes when I say "THAT would never happen in the book!" and then read the book, and lo and behold it IS there (in one format or another). For example, Gandalf hitting Denethor. I read that section the other day, and Gandalf DOES strike Denethor up near the Pyre, to get through the door and to remove a sword from Denethor’s hand. OK not as much as in the film, but it’s still there. Also, the warg attack in TT which I didn’t like. There is a battle between some of Theoden’s troops and Warg riders alluded to in TT. Just one sentence, but it’s there.<P>Child of the 7th age<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Yes, there were things I still had trouble with. Sam and Frodo's split-up worked cinematically, but I still would have preferred a closer adherence to the book. I just don't think it would have happened in this manner --- anyway, anyhow! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I can see your point. But did Sam really go away? I think he just sat down and cried, went down a couple of steps in a stupor and then FELL the rest of the way. Then he rushed back to catch up. I mean the only real difference is that Frodo hacked through the webs himself, and it was Frodo not Sam confronting Gollum once they had got out of the tunnels.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Also, seeing a Shire that had not changed after the War.... Yes, there was no way they could have included the Scouring, but the Shire did change and that bothered me, even though many have said how they appreciated the Inn scene which showed the disillusionment of "veterans" returning after a war. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Now viewing the movie I personally think they COULD have included the scouring, at least in the EE. I was waiting for a spectacular emotional homecoming, and thought that the scouring WOULD be anti climactic. But viewing the low key entrance the hobbits had to the Shire, it could have worked. Just imagine the scene between Frodo and Saruman. Wow.<P>Evisse<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>My favourite scene is not from the books: it is the scene with Pippin singing, Denethor gulping his food and Faramir and his men riding to Osgiliath. I'd like to see any movie top that scene, I'd like to see any even try! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Great point. The part of that scene that made me jump (on both viewings) is where Pippin finishes his song and you see the arrows of the orcs firing towards Farmir’s forces. The sound of the arrows being let loose is terrifying. I was reminded of The Charge of the Light Brigade with this scene. The horse riders riding towards certain death.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Also,the Eowyn vs the Witchking confrontation was very well done, keeping true to the book, though without some of the original dialogue. I wish Merry's part was more significant, though. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I thought we would have had mention somehow of Galadriel’s (movie) gift to Merry. Ie the sword of Numenor. And also, some of my favourite bits in the book to do with Merry. Ie ‘are you going to bury me’, ‘he should have been borne in honour into the city’ and ‘you should make him a knight of the riddermark’ and so on! There’s still the EE though........<P>Just imagine how good this film will be when the EE version comes out………. How do you better the best film ever made????????? I can’t wait.....
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