PJ's Sauron

[The Only Real Estel]

Well, first off, you can find my opinion & losts of other people's too at this thread. But I guess I'll re-state mind here anyway (briefly ):

I thought that Sauron being symbolized as an eye ontop of Mordor was a little iffy, but I could work with it. I thought that their original idea of Sauron fighting Aragorn in front of the Black Gate was totally lame, fortunatly, they decided against introducing that. I was very disappointed in RotK's portrayl of Sauron, because they:
a. Limited Sauron's vision to this little beam of light.
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b. Completely destroyed what they said earlier about how Sauron's gaze could pierce earth, cloud, shadow, & flesh. Kinda makes you wonder why Sauron couldn't see the hobbits, then, who hid behind flimsy rocks & elven cloaks that, althought they were powerful, could never have stood up to Sauron's gaze. Much less a highly concentrated gazy sight beam . Please. It was pathetic, pathetic, pathetic.

Unless Gandalf means the shape of a giant floating eye, than most people are mistaken when they think Sauron was formless.

I believe that Gandalf means that he wasn't just a spirit, but wasn't quite a physical form, who knows? The main thing is that PJ changed it to he 'could not yet take physical form, so that's what the movie Sauron is judged by...the movie version of Sauron.