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It would be ridiculous to claim the movies were not based on the books. Of course they had to change a lot of things, the books were not written as movie script

• ekianjo 8y ago
  > Of course they had to change a lot of things, the books were not written as movie scripts. The primary responsibility of a movie director is to make a great movie. It's OK to make cuts from a great book in order to fit the essentials. It's NOT OK to completely change the story, like making characters go to Osgiliath for no good reason, making Gimli a constant buffoon and transfiguring every motivation from protagonists, motivations well thought about as Tolkien revised its script during 14 years of writing. And the second and third movies of the trilogy were not even great movies if you forget about the books. Dialogs half taken from the book and half-written like modern American English, general lack of consistency, and a x-parts ending that did not make at all cinematic sense and was all fan service for book lovers. Except that the Scourging of the Shire was missing. What a mess, really.
  • olavk 8y ago
    It seems you just don't like the movies. That is OK!