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The depth, mood & 90% of the backstory were all sacrificed to sfx, gore & puerile jokes about dwarf tossing.
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90% of the backstory was not sacrificed. Some of it was, but certainly not 90%. That's just a ridiculous statement.
SFX? How else are you going to show the grand scale of Middle-Earth?
Gore? There wasn't much gore compared to other action movies, and Tolkien himself was quite bloody - at one point Sam walked down a tunnel in Cirith Ungol and we are told of
severed and scattered heads and limbs. If that's not gore I don't know what is.
I didn't like the dwarf jokes either but this is a movie and it needs comedy, even if this wasn't the best way to do it.