I think the film was very well done, considering. probably the only time that a film can be as good as the book is when the book is being written at the same time that the film is being made, like Arthuer C. Clarke did for 2001: a space odyssey.
like it was said earlier, we know too much about LotR. Last year I was glued to the screen during FotR. This year I was picking the whole thing apart while I was watching it:
'Wasn't Aragorn's horse GREY? And Arod is supposed to be red!'
'Why is Shadowfax white? What's with this slow-motion entrance?'
'They did not just send ELVES to Helm's Deep. No.' (Actually, they had built up to that quite nicely, but come ON!)
And so on. And so on. you all know what I mean. I liked the movie, but it was fairly warped, in my own personal opinion.
But what about the person who has had their head under a rock for the past year and has still never picked up the book? They would be watching it, going "COOL." If they happened to pick up the book later, they might notice some differences, but it wouldn't matter as much. Besides, the movie was actually quite accurate on the little details (except for the above mentioned), and I was, on the most part, impressed. They managed to fit in whole monologues from the book into the movie, like Sam's talk about being put into songs. (I did notice that alot of these monologues were moved to different places in the plot, however.)
PJ did take a bit overmuch creative license than most of us would like with the plot in general, but he was just trying to make make it a bit more dramatic on-screen. But he did a very good job with what he didn't change, and I suppose the other parts were alright too (I was getting MAD though when they had Faramir not being able to make up his mind-GRRRR)
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