--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Travis Edmunds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >From: "Bryon Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: RE: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review > >Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:38:24 -0500 > > > >>From: "Travis Edmunds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >: > >>opinion on the trilogy, plus throwing in a friendly jab. And as to my > >>opinion, I don't think you can really make any judgement on the movies, > >>unless you compare them to the books, which is the true receptacle of the
>As I said, a book (especially one adapted > to film) is the true receptacle of a story. Therefore it is a little > capricious and downright flawed to look at the situation any other way. > Unless of course one hasn't read a particular book that has been adapted to > film, and subsequently judged the film based on the merits of films alone. > That is quite understandable. > I could not help but feel somewhat jipped by the third movie. I went to see the film with several who had not read the book, including some a slight bit too young to have much interest in the books as of yet. Unfortunately the third movie did not hold together ~without~ the books. If you did not have the books as a point of reference, the movie seemed split and fragmented. Without the battle for the shire, the last 3 minutes of the movie were somehow tacked on and mostly useless. I must have spent an hour after the movie explaining to everyone what happened in the book after they left MT and especially, where the heck Mithrandir, Frodo, Bilbo, and the Elves were off to on the boat, and more importantly ~why~ they had to go. Even people who had read the book didn't pick up on Mithrandir being the "3ed ring bearer". I don't know if it was just the way I read the books, but I never imagined The army from under the mountain as being "pirates of the Caribbean "-esk I had imagined them as corporeal and able to be wounded. So the green mass sweeping up MT was a bit ~too~ DEM for me (DEM as it was). _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
