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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
All I ask is you judge the film by the characteristics and standards that are applicable to film as a medium. Do not compare it to other things and pronounce judgment as to if it is better or worse. Because it is not other things. It is what it is with its own qualities, characteristics, and elements all unto itself.
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That's exactly what I do. I judge 'X' in the movie as bad (Galadriel's 'Smallest person' nonsense, the Rohirrim charging straight in to pike, or down a 60 degree scree slope, etc, etc) or good (er...um..) as a movie. I'd say exactly the same things about the movie even if it was an original work. That 'smallest person' line is cringeworthy, horses can't charge down a slope like that without ending up in a nasty bloody heap at the bottom, & cavalry don't charge pike 'cos its suicide.