I'll interject here and say I was disappointed in the way they portrayed the search party finding Gandalf in the forest.
That part didn't really bother me that much. It was (IIRC) reasonably close to the original.
The best part of the movie was the Frodo/Sam/Gollum thread, but they managed to screw that up at the end by changing the story again. The ending was in the wrong place and completely ruined the story for me. If the movie was too long to end it in the right place, they should have just gotten rid of all the crap they made up and ended it in the right place.
What about the ending of the Helm's deep conflict. Gandalf arrives, they
rush down the hill and the orcs lose. Why deviate from the real story? I
would have rather seen the interpetation of the Ent's nighttime wholesale
killing of the Orc army, piling up the bodies and lighting them on fire....
Yea, the whole battle just didn't come off right IMO. It is one of my favorite parts of the trilogy and they just didn't do it completely right. I agree with you that they spent too much time bu
I feel there is just too much in the last book to do in 120 minutes, especially since they have the last part of Two Towers to complete. While critics are praising the movie already, I suspect I will be disappointed.
Well, its actually almost 3 1/2 hours long from what I read today, so they should be able to get it right. And it sounds like it's getting rave reviews. I can only hope for the best.
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