[HPFGU-OTChatter] more LOTR

[Brian Yoon]

I suppose this has some spoilers for people who haven't watched the movie.
Not big ones.

Abbie wrote:

> I think this movie really benefited from having such a fan at the helm.
> Comparing it to HP, as we left the theater, the consensus was that HP felt
> like a rush job, compared to LOTR.  And much wiser decisions were made
> regarding what to cut and what to keep. I feel as if HP has been cheated,
in
> comparasion.

Perhaps LotR made very good decisions in choosing what to cut out and such,
but it seemed to me, a non-reader, very hurried.  I'm not exactly sure what
I mean by that, but it seems a bit esoteric.  Were we supposed to know of
"Striker" and his liason with that elf-girl?  I was left thinking... what
the?

Oh, and I noticed they made Gandalf a bit less competent in the movie.  In
the book (I read very little of the book.., so forgive me if I get this
wrong), he knew about Bilbo's ring, and the fact that it was evil. In the
movie, he doesn't know anything about it, and he's surprised at what he
uncovers.  And he doesn't do any flashy magic!

> Final note -- I'm sure the purists are screaming bloody murder about
Arwen,

My Final note: is Frodo _really_ that odd in the book?  Hobbits, also.  They
can't seem to do _anything_.  They just get ripped in over and over.  I
mean, it is quite shocking to have Frodo hit- but the whole dramatics gets a
bit odd after the first one.  I know it was to make us see the importance of
him- but hell!  It seems a bit... melodramatic.

Brian Yoon
... who can't seem to get the picture of that elf-acher dude shooting the
orcs down as they come to him on that hill, one by one