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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 538520" data-attributes="member: 151">Well, I can't speak for some, but I can speak for myself, those I saw the film with and my audience that was present.  It was clear that they all enjoyed the film immensely.Gollum did start out a little shaky, but there was plenty of pity for Gollum in my theatre...but an equal amount of fear and distrust.  The scene where the split personalities argue started comical (intentionally), but by the middle of it, it was deathly quiet in the theatre from the tension of Gollum's inner conflict.As for the dwarf-tossing joke, that and all the other jokes for Gimli went over very well in our showing.  I realize you might find it a violation of the sanctity of the work, an opinion to which you're entitled, but most of us enjoyed it for bit of light humor it was intended to be, especially amid such scenes of darkness and death.Personally, I think your distaste for the treatment of the material is distracting you from the quality of the movie itself.  Most of your dissatisfaction comes from the handling of character and plot elements in contrast with the source material, not necessarily with the actual film-making.  Much of the original dialogue, IMHO, simply would not work in a feature film without modification.  Similarly, much of the pacing of TTT would be extremely off for cinematic presentation, as well.  Complaining that Entdraught was missing or that the Entmoot should take three days or even that Treebeard's character is portrayed as much more relunctant and less wise than in the books are not problems with the film (I realize that you didn't cite such examples, of course, I'm just using such for illustration).  An argument can be made for where the film does have weak points, but you haven't really made them, IMHO.</blockquote>

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