Re: OT: Two Towers movie

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:31:28AM -0700, JS Bangs wrote:
> Curious--what choices would those be? Overall, I'm still a great fan of
> the films, though Two Towers diverged from it source much more than
> Fellowship.
Indeed.  About all I missed from Fellowship was Tom Bombadil and the
Barrow-Wights.  Of course, I knew long before there were even spoilers
available that there was no way Tom was going to show up in the film;
the whole episode just drops right out way too neatly, and they
obviously had to cut a lot to squeeze it into single-feature length.
But I still missed it.

Well, I also thought the way Gandalf's battles with Saruman were staged
was a bit silly, and changing his escape to a last-minute-rescue was
just stretching credibility to no real purpose.

> Personally, I wanted to see more ents, and I couldn't figure out why they
> changed Faramir's character so much. Other than that, the changes were
> defensible and mostly inconsequential.
Eh, I thought we saw just enough of the ents to keep them interesting.
Faramir was the only thing that really bothered me about TT.  It was
such a dramatic change, too.

-Mark

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