I'm rereading LotR and I'm of the opinion Jackson did a terrific job with the movies.
Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 24/10/2017 12:30:49 AM
Certainly things get moved around all the time, but they seem thematically appropriate. Yes, Gandalf never talks about "a far green country under a swift sunrise"--that's a dream Frodo has in the house of Tom Bombadil--but it seems a proper appropriation. And honestly, an enormous amount was kept nearly verbatim, and to great effect.
Maybe I just don't appreciate the novels sufficiently. 
If it's any consolation, the Hobbit films were the first time I've ever been actively angry at how bad a movie was.
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- 23/10/2017 03:09:06 PM
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Basically all of LoTR. Don't ask me about the Hobbit. *NM*
- 23/10/2017 03:34:29 PM
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I'm rereading LotR and I'm of the opinion Jackson did a terrific job with the movies.
- 24/10/2017 12:30:49 AM
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"Talk some sense into this honorable honourable fool (fooul? )"
- 23/10/2017 03:44:34 PM
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Good examples
- 23/10/2017 04:15:59 PM
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No, it was Irish. The other Families called the Corleones "the Irish gang" for him being consigliere *NM*
- 24/10/2017 01:53:35 AM
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That is where a bad memory helps
- 23/10/2017 04:10:32 PM
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Having the movie version as one of our Quotes of the Moment refreshes the irritation. *NM*
- 23/10/2017 04:17:50 PM
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Subtext you will not get if you are not familiar with the medicine and the subtext around that quote
- 23/10/2017 08:57:15 PM
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