Picky, Picky, Picky.

[Nimrodel_9]

Welcome to the Downs, Dragon! I love The Wheel of Time! (Not as much as LotR though)

Why make the Gondorians look like dumb tables?

Hee hee... tables.

Wow, Essex. Thanks for pointing that out! I never realized that.

[the phantom]

Arwen didn't ride with Frodo in the book.

That's not a "pathetic grievance".

Arwen shouldn't have appeared in the same camera shot as Frodo until he was in Rivendell.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Dragon Reborn

I think the main reason people come up with these ridiculous complaints is that they watch the movies TOO many times, and therefore to find some completely minor and unnessecary mishap is to their great satisfation.

I think that Dragon Reborn has it about right (welcome to the Downs, by the way). I have watched the films only a handful of times each and I seem to have far less complaints than most.

There is, I suspect, also an element of people trying to prove that they are bona fide book fans by trying to find every minor detail that varies from the story presented in the book. My own view is that, if one is sufficiently confident in one's appreciation of the book, then one should be able to accept differences in the films. They are, after all, only an adaptations. Unless something doesn't work within the films (ie gives rise to an internal consistency) then I have don't have a problem with it.

With one exception, of course. My dislike of those Lemming-Hyenas is purely subjective. I was so looking forward to seeing Wargs and I didn't see anything resembling a Warg until Grond came along.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

It seems as if there are two extremes being caricatured.

1. The obsessive nit-picker.

2. The ferocious defender of the faith.

Accept that discussion is fun and just go and get a hot chocolate or something...

[Lalwendë]

It seems as if there are two extremes being caricatured.

1. The obsessive nit-picker.

2. The ferocious defender of the faith.

Which one am I?

OK I pick, but then I pick about every film which is based on a much-loved book. I have to say, the LotR films are the ones which have managed the transition best of all those such films I have seen, and I do love them. But I still pick. Leave me alone, I enjoy it! Well, in the spirit of the thread I shall offer up my worst/best picky moment - criticising the unkempt state of the gardens in Hobbiton.

[AbercrombieOfRohan]

I agree with Saucepan the movie fans get such a hard time when they gush about Orlando Bloom or whatever, that they probably feel that they need to prove themselves and therefore they find reasons to be nit-picky about the movies.

(I wrote this in third person reffering to these unknowns as 'they', I should probably include myself in this statement )

[The Only Real Estel]

Let's just say the makers of the films knew what they were doing and if they did somthing we think is wrong, well, this must be for some reason we don't understand, and leave it at that

Because then we would have no discussion sub-forums like The Movies! But seriously, there's nothing wrong with discussion or debate, just as long as it is intelligent & not wholly centered on minuscule things. Now of course we get into an arguement about what is minuscule & what is relevant, but that is a can of worms that I am not willing to open.