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Esgallhugwen · 08-06-2003, 03:33 PM

Tsk Tsk this post will be met with mixed results hopefully a war won't result. Why are you so bitter about Peter Jackson's interpretation of the best book ever written? I think he did a good job for one who was brave enough to take on the task of trying to make a movie of it. And yes he did take out lots of bits that I am upset about but try to think of it this way... He tried to make the movie for people who had never heard of Lord of the Rings before or who had never even heard of Tolkien himself, he had to make it good for those people. I really don't like the people who think the movie dragged on and they always complain about how they fell asleep. Shame on them! And yet this always comes up the butchering of PJ's work, do you think it is easy to make such a movie? Anyway it might help not to think of it as based on LOR but rather an interpretation or not related to it at all... and try to have a more open mind <p>[ August 06, 2003: Message edited by: Esgallhugwen ]

08-06-2003, 03:33 PM	#2
Esgallhugwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Where the Moon cries against the snow Posts: 526	Tsk Tsk this post will be met with mixed results hopefully a war won't result. Why are you so bitter about Peter Jackson's interpretation of the best book ever written? I think he did a good job for one who was brave enough to take on the task of trying to make a movie of it. And yes he did take out lots of bits that I am upset about but try to think of it this way... He tried to make the movie for people who had never heard of Lord of the Rings before or who had never even heard of Tolkien himself, he had to make it good for those people. I really don't like the people who think the movie dragged on and they always complain about how they fell asleep. Shame on them! And yet this always comes up the butchering of PJ's work, do you think it is easy to make such a movie? Anyway it might help not to think of it as based on LOR but rather an interpretation or not related to it at all... and try to have a more open mind <p>[ August 06, 2003: Message edited by: Esgallhugwen ] __________________ "...for the sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others. -8:9:4 The Witness of Fane"