Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 04:54:52 12/21/02
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On December 21, 2002 at 01:30:33, Matt Taylor wrote: > >You mean that you haven't read the books. > >I had to agree with my friends after we walked out of the movie at 7 PM on the >release day. Even if you hadn't read the books, there were inconsistencies, but >it was a good story, and the CGI is beyond reproach. If you have read the books, >you're in for a sore disappointment. The characters you -thought- you knew have >been butchered. I remember Faramir as a very respectable guy. The Faramir I saw >on screen was just as short-sighted and arrogant as Boromir. > >-Matt *SPOILERS* A movie has to work on it's own. Making a book into a movie can never work if you do it word by word, page by page. Faramir is boring and one dimensional in the book. There are many things that works in the book that would never work on film. So I really don't care about film to book comparisons. What I care about is the film itself. Are there things in the film that are not so good? Yes, IMO. Gimli shouldn't just be a comic sidekick. Legolas shouldn't be skateboarding down the stairs in Helms Deep. Faramir shouldn't just turn 180 at the end of the movie and let the hobbits go without explanation. And there are other things too. But there are also many changes and additions that are brilliant and *improvements* over Tolkien, when making a *movie*. Overall, the movie is just a great movie, IMO. If people do not like it, fine. That doesn't make it a bad movie, or even an average movie. I can't wait for the extended version, though. I think it will be even more important for TTT that it was for FOTR. /David
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