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Well, I went out and saw Return of the King tonight, and was reasonably pleased. It was a different "vision" of the story than that inside my head, of course, but they still stayed fairly true to it... At least the spirit of the books anyway.
But seriously, someone really needs to teach Hollywood people how to use a sword. There was so much over-dramatic flailing about, spinning, and general nonsense that it challenged the credulity of the film. Of course the average viewer isn't going to be bothered by it, since it looks "cool."
Oh well, at least they didn't totally screw up Faramir like they did in The Two Towers, and the surfboarding was kept to a relative minimum. ;)
But seriously, someone really needs to teach Hollywood people how to use a sword. There was so much over-dramatic flailing about, spinning, and general nonsense that it challenged the credulity of the film. Of course the average viewer isn't going to be bothered by it, since it looks "cool."
Oh well, at least they didn't totally screw up Faramir like they did in The Two Towers, and the surfboarding was kept to a relative minimum. ;)