<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Do you think Jackson added this crap material because he prefered the original? Of course not! He added it in because he thought it was better, and if that's what he thinks is better he must have a very low opinion of the original.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I think that neither of those are accurate. Jackson certainly doesn't have a 'low opinion of the original' & I'm not neccessarily even going to say that he thought his changes were better & that he should go back & re-write Tolkien's books. But some things work in books & don't work in movies. There's been an incredible ammount of griping here, more than I've ever done (suprise!!! ), & more than I ever thought I'd see!<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Arwen is a total flop; no one I have talked to - man or women - cares a jot whether he character lives or dies. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I've heard unnumerable people who love the character & are interested in it. Granted, I was a little put out by her apperance in FotR, & again (although to a lesser degree) in TTT, but seriously, I can be a more flexible than that! It's pretty much out of the appendixes & it's <B>not</B> changing an entire character or something.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Anyway, there's no point talking to you about this as you seem to have an inability to read what is on the screen in front of you as well as a slavish devotion to being told what to like by accountants and critics.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>There is something that is called 'personal opinions' also, pandora, & that was a mean-spirited knock on one. Box office figures do support the fact that Jackson can't be doing to badly if he continues to get people to flock to the theaters to see the movie. It can't just be the story, or any of that other stuff I've heard some people trying to feed us. I don't like some of the things that PJ did with LotR, but I think that calling him a bad director is just plain not true <B>and</B> it's ridiculous. <P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>or "There's not enough time to show that"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>While that certainly seems like an over-used saying, it's true. Seriously, he doesn't have enough time to do the movies. I've said this from the beginning. But what are you going to do? Make a movie so long everyone will need their legs amputated because they didn't have any stretch time? Or we could throw in a bunch of intermissions to brake up the flow of the story & make people lose interest in it. Come on ...<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I don't think theres a single scene in the first film that wasn't badly handled and some ranked alongside the worst in any film I've ever seen.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Can you give some examples? I mean, surely you can give some main ones & some of the lesser ones for us?<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Pandora... best post ever.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>O wow. Lets start dealing out best posts left & right, then. Everyone watch out for flying best post awards.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Jackson never even tried.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>That is one of the most un-founded statements I have <B>ever</B> read or heard. Had you stated it as 'your opinion' it would've been different, but to state it as fact is absolutly ridiculous. I'm sure New Line Cinema would just sit him in a chair dump a bunch of money in his lap, & let him slack off even <B>if</B> he wanted to, which I feel rather confident he did not. Now that I think about it, it's really not worth a reply...<p>[ 4:10 PM December 17, 2003: Message edited by: The Only Real Estel ]
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