Well, I'm surprised by all the reaction. I haven't been trying to avoid you guys, I've been sick, & then lost internet access. this is the first chance I've had to read the responses.<BR>Let me clarify. I did like Fellowship a lot. My first response to Towers was to be overwhelmed by the size & scale. I wasn't really able to take it in or make a judgement on it, but because I liked Fellowship I kind of decided that Towers must be as good. It was only after going back that I started to feel uncomfortable. Then I began to assess my feelings. at that point I read Cainer's words, & it hit me. I hated the movie. But Towers is not a seperate entity, its the middle section of a single film. So you have to judge the whole thing. This forced me to reassess my feelings.<BR>Its not good enough. It fails. The problem is simple. The writers aren't good enough, but they THINK they're better than Tolkien. They really believe they can tell Tolkien's story better than him, depict his characters better than him. You can imagine them sitting there thinking 'How can we improve on Tolkien?'. Well, if you're a genius, you can. But they're not geniuses.<BR>Look at the film. They've managed to make Boromir more sympathetic than Faramir. Faramir is a thug, Gimli is a fool & Treebeard is an idiot. This is insulting & incompetent. <BR>Maybe for those who don't know, or understand, the book its ok, but for those who do understand it, what they've done is so wrong, so twisted, its unforgivable.<BR>The emphasis on violence & brutality is too much. My overwhelming impression of the book is is of beauty, nobility & tradgedy. My overwhelming impression of the films is of violence & uglyness. <BR>Anyway, sorry for not responding earlier.
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