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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
In the end, only one thing matters when you are discussing a film. DID IT WORK?
And for me - and I would imagine millions of others who came back again and again - it did work. Mission accomplished.
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No...I don't think so... That is somehow wrong and slightly twisted. There are parts in that movie that didn't work, and yet people still came back. For instance, when Frodo stuck on the ring at Weathertop and you could see the Nazgul, who was impressed by the sniffing white guys looking down their noses at Frodo? No one...that certainly didn't work - and yet people came back.
There's a difference between making something that will hold together for a little while and making something that will last for a lifetime. The LotR movies were great for the first few viewings. All of us were stunned and amazed by the movies when we saw them in theaters. We went two or three or more times to see them while they were there. Then we bought them when they came out and we have watched them many times since. But! After learning them by heart and finally waking up from the dream that the beautiful scenery and intense drama that the movies cast on us, we realize, hey...these movies have holes...why? The books don't...
The difference between us and the millions that you mention is that they don't study the work like we do. I doubt they watch them as much we do.
Do you know why they were such big hits? Because it was the Lord of the Rings and the Lord of the Rings has
amazing depth in characters, plot, history, and different scenery. And why does it have those things? Because Tolkien put them there. Jackson used a fair amount of Tolkien's work, but not as much as he could have. Do you know what would have happened if Jackson had used more of Tolkien's original work? I am convinced that the movies would have been a great deal more loved, by Tolkien fans and people who didn't know Tolkein both.
The Council of Elrond (as well as many other places in the movie) could have easily been done differently and could still have impressed the people who didn't know Tolkien's work just as much,
and could have made LotR fans happy.
-- Folwren