i think my absolute biggest problem with the movie was that they changed aragorn's hair towards the end, but that's not really an addition. more on topic i also strongly disliked the denethor death scene <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I think handling the scene the way it was written would have shown more clearly just how twisted Denethor's mind had become. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>i agree. it would have set an entirely different mood to the scene as well. with him hurling himself off the cliff, the whole theater found it comical, and there was a round of applause. if they would have done it how it was in the books, it would have been more creepy and more of a somber mood then the great leap. also i didn't like how they didn't show the palantir because denethor was shown as a mean dude in tttee, so it wasn't just after boromir died that he wasn't nice...i think they needed to explain that more.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> The ring floating on crusty-lava-stuff (can you tell I'm not a geologist?) for seemingly 5 minutes was dumb and didn't add anything to the drama. Bad addition. <BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR>i liked that because it wasn't just the ring sitting there, the ring sat there without melting until frodo decided to live, and while i don't remember that being in the book, i think it was good because it showed how the ring was really linked to frodo's fate and all...so i thought that was good.<P>as for anduril<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Why did it have to be Agent Elrond err... Elrond anyway? Why not the Rangers of the North?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>while i don't like how they did it, i feel that they should have just given him the sword when he first went to rivendell like in the books, it had to be elrond giving him the sword and not the rangers because fotr had already set up that the sword was in rivendell....although the exclusion of the rangers of the north saddened me as well...but probably not as much as ghan-buri-ghan not being included....ahh that was like my favorite part and yeah....maybe ee? maybe?? but yeah i didn't really like the "go home sam" scene either...<p>[ 9:12 PM January 07, 2004: Message edited by: pukel-person ]
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