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Originally Posted by Cloud

that movie they made out of The Dark is Rising (which was called something totally different) sucked mondoly.

Have to say the most satisfying movie make of a childhood fave would be the Lord of the Rings movies. Very faithful to the book, despite the Arwen re-write.

No offense intended, Cloud, but ..... are you #$%&ing INSANE?

Just wondering.

If the movie were titled, "The War of the Ring" I might have liked it as a substantially modified retelling of roughly the same events. Calling it "The Lord of The Ring" made me anticipate something fairly close to the books (which I love), thus leading to great disappointment.

I can forgive a lot of the plot editing - Bombadil gone, eg - it had to be shortened. But they ripped out some of the most important themes - why the three hobbits insist on accompanying Frodo, eg - and dumbed down a lot of the rest, especially the confrontations between Gandalf and Saruman. Those should have been high drama a la A Few Good Men - "I WANT THE TRUTH!!!" "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!!!", not cheap magic fights.
Instead all we got was fight after fight after fight. Ok the visual effects were awesome, especially the Balrog. That was not, imho, enough to redeem it.