Matthew - perhaps one reason for your strong opinion is that Boromir is your favorite character from the book. We tend to feel more strongly about what is closer to our hearts. You praise the Pippin in the movie but that is something you do not feel asstrongly about as you did Boromir. Changes in the depiction of the character from page to screen would most likely not impact you as hard as Boromir.
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When I see PJ's Boromir, I don't see Book Boromir. They are totally different in my opinion, appearance wise and personality wise, but I don't want to get into that.
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People do not like it when I say this, but its true just the same - the reason you do not see Book Boromir in the movies is because its the movie and not the book. I do not mean that in a wiseguy sort of way - its just the simple reality that a book and a movie are two different things with two different masters to serve.
Lets face it - the Dorothy Gale in the book WIZARD OF OZ was clearly not the same character in the movie. The character of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA was not the one his own brother knew from real life. They were not meant to be. They were characters which worked on the screen within the world they inhabited on the silver screen. The characters in the book- regardless if real or imaginary - do not have to have all the same qualities, characteristics, and components of what works in a book.