**RotK - General impressions and opinions**

[Sparrow]

It was indeed an imperfect film, but less so than most of the rubbish I have seen this year.<P>Actually, it was one of the most visually spectacular and engaging films I have seen in a long while. Peter Jackson decided to digress from the plot of the books a bit, particularly with regards to the ending, but who can blame him? The movie would have been 3 hours of build-up, ten minutes of climax and another two hours to wrap it all up. Sounds just like a bad date.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>My boyfriend was notably miffed about the fact that "the bad guys on the huge elephants" looked so darn Arab (him being Arab and all).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yeah, my homie Arif had something to say about that too. Although that one <I>mumak</I> rider who Eomer speared looked like a grinning, muscular, war-painted real life version of Homer Simpson.<P>~Sparrow<p>[ 3:44 PM January 13, 2004: Message edited by: Sparrow ]