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The Only Real Estel · 12-24-2003, 10:33 AM

Cont. from above post:Lows: *Frodo telling Sam to leave. Deffinitly my least favorite part of the movie, Frodo & Sam always stuck together in the books, & that was one of the great things about the books, & the movies pretty well disrupted that.*Gandalf 'throwing' Denethor back onto the pyre.*What dignity there was in Denethor's death scene being sacrificed for a chance to spectacularize it.*Arwen's life being tied to the Ring. It was just a ridiculous side-plot, again, trying to create extra suspense when none was needed.*Everything had to be rushed along (except for the battle), & you could really tell in spots where they where trying to cram this in, rush along to this, find a quick bit of time for that, etc. That's the evils of having to move Shelob & Minas Morgul to RotK, even if it did 'fit the timeline' better. Imagine how squashed everything would've been had they attempted to get the Wizard Confrontation in there as well ! Not to say that I wouldn't have liked to see it .*The special effects left some to be desired on occasion, but for the most part they were pretty good.*The cutting of the Wizard Confrontation...*The cutting of the Houses of Healing. Seriously, Eowyn & Faramir hook up seemingly with next to no contact, & Merry seems to suffer absolutly no ill-effects or gets any credit for saving Eowyn. That's all I have time for for now... .[ 5:41 PM December 24, 2003: Message edited by: The Only Real Estel ]

12-24-2003, 10:33 AM	#11
The Only Real Estel Raffish Rapscallion Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Far from the 'Downs, it seems :-( Posts: 2,835	Cont. from above post:<P>Lows: <P>Frodo telling Sam to leave.<BR> Deffinitly my least favorite part of the movie, Frodo & Sam always stuck together in the books, & that was one of the great things about the books, & the movies pretty well disrupted that.<P>Gandalf 'throwing' Denethor back onto the pyre.<P>What dignity there was in Denethor's death scene being sacrificed for a chance to spectacularize it.<P>Arwen's life being tied to the Ring. <BR>It was just a ridiculous side-plot, again, trying to create extra suspense when none was needed.<P>Everything had to be rushed along (except for the battle), & you could really tell in spots where they where trying to cram this in, rush along to this, find a quick bit of time for that, etc. That's the evils of having to move Shelob & Minas Morgul to RotK, even if it did 'fit the timeline' better. Imagine how squashed everything would've been had they attempted to get the Wizard Confrontation in there as well ! Not to say that I wouldn't have liked to see it .<P>The special effects left some to be desired on occasion, but for the most part they were pretty good.<P>The cutting of the Wizard Confrontation...<P>The cutting of the Houses of Healing.<BR> Seriously, Eowyn & Faramir hook up seemingly with next to no contact, & Merry seems to suffer absolutly no ill-effects or gets any credit for saving Eowyn.<P> That's all I have time for for now... .<p>[ 5:41 PM December 24, 2003: Message edited by: The Only Real Estel ]