<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> omehow I think that PJ?s changes have been vindicated through the only medium that means anything. He has the box office results. He has the critical acclaim. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>So has "Titanic" but it's still crap.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Given that there are certain Tolkien fanboys who simply would never be satisfied unless the book was filmed exactly as it is in their imagination <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I was not expecting that but, paradoxically, it is what I got. Jackson's film does, in fact, pretty well look the way I imagined it (apart from the Shire which was a bit off).<P>The problem is that Jackson did not film the STORY of LotR. The story is not something imagined, it is written down in black and white. That story may need to be compressed and altered to make a film, even a 9hr film, but Jackson has gone beyond that to produce a patchwork mess largely of his own devising using the names from the book and little else <I>as regards the story</I>.
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