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For example, to me, Aragorn's dream of Arwen, where he is woken by the affectionate snog from the horse, is not funny as it makes a farce of the romance. I suppose many people are uneasy with taking high romance seriously, and so they think it is funny to undercut the romance that way. But this is not consistent with other depictions of the romance in the movies. So, to me, it is a cheap shot, used just to get a laugh at the moment but not really to tell us anything about the romance.
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Bethberry, that was intended to be for laughs? Interesting, I never knew.
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Even anatomically correct replicas that are as great as the originals can be dissected and its flaw(s) found by an expert. And isn't that what we are here for (in this forum)?
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Very true, and there are those who read Tolkien's books to pick it apart and try to find flaws in it. Saying all the characters are too static, they're too predictable, the wording is too biblical and so on. I think most of us here can say that we disagree with those types of critics, but they state their opinions, and then are able to support it, and that's all we can really expect and we must respect others opinions. We all have different preferences.
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Ignorance is bliss for those who haven't heard about the book therefore they aren't banging their heads against the wall because the movie didn't measure up.
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For the most part I would tend to agree with you. However, there are those who are strictly film critics, who have no prior reading to the books, who can pick a part the movies. There are a lot of editting mistakes, the people in charge of making sure there are no "mistakes" in the film missed a LOT. There are times when Jackson shows he can be a really great director (using foreshadowing, some brilliant shots on Minas Tirth and Edoras, good use of emotionsal/tear-jerking moments...etc), then there are times that he just slips back to his previous mediocre days...(using humor when there should be none, no reasoning behind the decapitation of the MoS, turning Denethor into a punching bag). I agree that this is a very entertaining movie, one that I've watched many times, and Jackson chose it to be that way. I'm afraid in todays day and age we've sort of lost track of them great time movies that didn't have to sho murder, and blood, to be great movies, or entertaining movies. Jackson tried to balance the movie between readers and non-readers, teenagers that want to see war and fighting, and old farts like me that prefer the old time movies. In doing that, of course to me it seems like the movies did not reach their potential that they could have been.