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A MOVIE, NOT A BOOK
To all the reviewers who complain that the film versions of TLOTR are not as good as the book: HOW COULD THEY BE? The movies are TLOTR based upon Tolkien's masterpiece. Please note the words "based upon" and write your reviews accordingly. No, the films are not(and could not have been)as good as the book. As motion pictures, however, they are crowning achievements, as near to perfection as we are ever likely to get. Future generations will see them as such.

GRIPES FROM A PURIST
Sorry, but I didn't like this film series. It wasn't bad, but it's a pale shadow of the books. Attempts to make it adaptable to the screen are supposed to make it better, and this movie just failed at that. Just to list a few gripes....why was Gimli portrayed as such a bumbling fool? In the books, he could be a bit "stiff necked" sometimes, but, like Aragorn and Legolas, he was a sound and formidable professional figthing man; making him play the fool for comic relief took a lot away from the film (furthermore, in the books, he and Legolas became very close friends while in Lothlorien in The Fellowship of the Ring; why was it in the film they didn't pronounce themselves friends until the last battle in Return of the King?). Another point; why is it, whenever battle became imminant, everyone would degenerate into a state of panic? Tolkien based his characters on the old Norse and northern European heroes, like Beowulf and Siegfried, who faced death as a way of life. If the possibility of death arose (and it always did) they met it with fortitude and bravery. In the film, at Helm's Deep, with Sauraman's army approaching, Legolas, looking close to tears, is shown saying..."they're all going to die.." and essentially seems to be trying to avoid peeing his pants, while in the book, he and Gimli casually passed the time awaiting the battle by chatting about the local architecture, indifferent to and unshaken by the death and doom marching upon them in the form of Sauraman's orcs. So why did was it necessary to have their characters babbling with fear in the movie? One last complaint; Toliken was a Ph.d in literature at Oxford and his writing shows it, but much of his eloquent and melodious dialog and narration was set aside for a much watered down and often rambling chatter (Sam's long fatuous speech at the end of The Two Towers movie is a case in point). I'm sorry if I'm dumping on a film you really like, but comparing the movie to the books is like comparing dust to gold, and just speaking for myself, and at the risk of sounding like some cinematic Scrooge, I took very little pleasure in watching these films.

come on mister frodo
the greatest visual effects i've ever seen. i'd give it 6 stars, if possible. based on 1 of my favorite books which i read after watching this.

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