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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 6752" data-attributes="member: 158">My list of things I disliked about the FotR movie:Pretty long list, huh?I do have some comments on some of the comments:Igneous said:Igneous, your theater had a very different reaction from mine. The act of that one little hobbit, who only wanted to go home and resume his life, in the face of all these powerful and assumedly-noble men and elves and dwarves, with the influence of the ring working at its best, was an act that had the whole theater quiet. I saw more than one smile on the faces of my fellow movie-goers (people I did not know) when Frodo gave his line &quot;though I do not know the way.&quot; I must confess I kinda had a tear in my eye at this point too. All these &quot;brave guys,&quot; arguing like a bunch of children over the favorite schoolyard toy, because no one was willing to take it into Mordor for destruction. In the book scene, as you quoted it, it worked out about the same way.Madriel said:If you hadn't read the books, then Sam's drowning would have been suspenseful, in light of Boromir's recent death. I should know - I had my wife with me on the second viewing of the movie. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I agree with several other points - the birth of the Uruk-Hai, the Time compression of Gandalf's visits to Frodo, The Uruk-Hai finding them so quickly, etc. - but again, all these things can be defended, given that the movie had a time limit. The movie was not only well-crafted, but self-consistent.Ach, if only the D&amp;D movie had fared so well... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And I hope that the Comic Figure known as Tom Bombadill NEVER makes an appearance in these movies.Take care all!Henry</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 6752, member: 158"] My list of things I disliked about the FotR movie: [list][*][/list] Pretty long list, huh? I do have some comments on some of the comments: Igneous said: Igneous, your theater had a very different reaction from mine. The act of that one little hobbit, who only wanted to go home and resume his life, in the face of all these powerful and assumedly-noble men and elves and dwarves, with the influence of the ring working at its best, was an act that had the whole theater quiet. I saw more than one smile on the faces of my fellow movie-goers (people I did not know) when Frodo gave his line "though I do not know the way." I must confess I kinda had a tear in my eye at this point too. All these "brave guys," arguing like a bunch of children over the favorite schoolyard toy, because no one was willing to take it into Mordor for destruction. In the book scene, as you quoted it, it worked out about the same way. Madriel said: If you hadn't read the books, then Sam's drowning would have been suspenseful, in light of Boromir's recent death. I should know - I had my wife with me on the second viewing of the movie. :) I agree with several other points - the birth of the Uruk-Hai, the Time compression of Gandalf's visits to Frodo, The Uruk-Hai finding them so quickly, etc. - but again, all these things can be defended, given that the movie had a time limit. The movie was not only well-crafted, but self-consistent. Ach, if only the D&D movie had fared so well... :) And I hope that the Comic Figure known as Tom Bombadill NEVER makes an appearance in these movies. Take care all! Henry [/QUOTE]

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