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The LotR movies aren't book-accurate. But they are great!
by nextaccountic 5y ago
The LotR movies aren't book-accurate. But they are great!
- abecedarius 5y agoThose movies are outstanding on multiple axes, but in terms of story I hate what they did to the source. Yes you need to mess with it to make a movie that works as a movie, no that doesn't mean your Aragorn can murder an emissary on a parley. These changes aren't just unfaithful, they're standard modern Hollywood tropes, subtracting rather than adding interest.
- nextaccountic 5y ago> that doesn't mean your Aragorn can murder an emissary on a parley What emissary?
- abecedarius 5y agohttps://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_the_Black_Gate#The_Return_of_the_King https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_the_Black_Gate#The_Re... "Well, I guess that concludes negotiations!"
- LegitShady 5y agoThe movies seemed to try to make Aragorn a lot more relatable than the books do.
- abecedarius 5y agoIf people see a war criminal as more relatable... Killing an ambassador makes it harder to stop the fighting. That's bad for your own people, for a start.
- Freak_NL 5y agoThe Hobbit films on the other hand fell rather flat. The Lord of the Rings trilogy seems like quite an achievement these days; I don't recall seeing the same amount of passion and dedication in any of the more recent film adaptations. But I think I might also be biased due to my age when it came out. I'm in my forties now, and I rarely bother with film and television now, preferring books instead.