<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>...by deciding to put emphasis on the action/special effects & general grandeur of things, it's difficult to expect an audience to accept over an hours intimite 'champerplay' between Frodo & Sam. Especially a modern MTV audience with an attention span of aprox. 5 sec's<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I have to disagree Mollecon. You are selling people short. After all, movies used to be called "talkies" for a reason. People do talk. <P>P.J. achieved a good balance in the first film, between the action and the character development, (though it is vastly improved in the extended version.)<P>He lost that in the second film, it was so "action packed" that it verged on the point of gratuitousness. I'm sure there were many good moments of dialog that got left on the cutting room floor so P.J. could shovel in more "action".
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