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Diamond18 · 12-18-2002, 09:40 PM

Well, if you want my feelings on the matter you can probably just re-read Child of the 7th Age's post, because that's pretty much how I felt. But that won't stop me from going on and on myself, so here goes:I'll ignore the book deviances for the moment and compare this movie to the FotR movie. This really, really lacked the emontion of FotR. It had no Departure of Boromir type scene to make me teary-eyed...nothing even close to that. Where was the emontion? I just didn't feel it.It also felt very scattered. Too many storylines going on at once. Someone (Birdland I think) asked why they had to turn three storylines into five. Yeah! Why? Anything that involved the Elves was really forced. Haldir's death? Wake me up when it's over....There was a lot more action, yeah...why didn't they just hire Vin Diesel to play Aragorn then, huh? We needed the balance of FotR; put emotion and intelligent dialogue before head-butts and slashing and arrows, okay PJ? Is that too much to ask? I really thought you knew how to do that.Faramir? Faramir? Where have you gone? I'll talk about that in the Faramir thread, though....Movie vs. Book. Oy, where to start? In this case this movie is really suffering from "Wait Till RotK" syndrome. The favorite parts of the book for me was the Dead Marshes, Pippin and the Palantír, Minas Morgul and Shelob's Lair. Three of those things seem to be in RotK.Besides that, they spent way too much time leading up to Helm's Deep and not enough on the Hobbits. Hobbits make the World Go Round, IMHO, and if I don't get enough Hobbits, I'm not happy.On the postive side? I loved Sam. Gollum was nicer than I imagine him, but I loved him, too. Pippin seems to have gathered his wits finally and the Orcs were just as mean and scary as you'd hope them to be.But PJ never seems to fail on the scary/evil parts of the book. In this movie he really got too carried away with it. And so I'll say it again: I miss the emotion of the books and the first film.Now, onto the other threads to talk about things more specifically....

12-18-2002, 09:40 PM	#11
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	Well, if you want my feelings on the matter you can probably just re-read <B>Child of the 7th Age's</B> post, because that's pretty much how I felt. But that won't stop me from going on and on myself, so here goes:<P>I'll ignore the book deviances for the moment and compare this movie to the FotR movie. This really, <I>really</I> lacked the emontion of FotR. It had no Departure of Boromir type scene to make me teary-eyed...nothing even close to that. Where was the emontion? I just didn't feel it.<P>It also felt very scattered. Too many storylines going on at once. Someone (Birdland I think) asked why they had to turn three storylines into five. Yeah! Why? Anything that involved the Elves was really forced. Haldir's death? Wake me up when it's over....<P>There was a lot more action, yeah...why didn't they just hire Vin Diesel to play Aragorn then, huh? We needed the balance of FotR; put emotion and intelligent dialogue <I>before</I> head-butts and slashing and arrows, okay PJ? Is that too much to ask? I really thought you knew how to do that.<P>Faramir? Faramir? Where have you gone? I'll talk about that in the Faramir thread, though....<P>Movie vs. Book. Oy, where to start? In this case this movie is really suffering from "Wait Till RotK" syndrome. The favorite parts of the book for me was the Dead Marshes, Pippin and the Palantír, Minas Morgul and Shelob's Lair. Three of those things seem to be in RotK.<P>Besides that, they spent way too much time leading up to Helm's Deep and not enough on the Hobbits. Hobbits make the World Go Round, IMHO, and if I don't get enough Hobbits, I'm not happy.<P>On the postive side? I loved Sam. Gollum was nicer than I imagine him, but I loved him, too. Pippin seems to have gathered his wits finally and the Orcs were just as mean and scary as you'd hope them to be.<P>But PJ never seems to fail on the scary/evil parts of the book. In this movie he really got too carried away with it. And so I'll say it again: I miss the emotion of the books and the first film.<P>Now, onto the other threads to talk about things more specifically.... __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression.