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To: Fedora
Being familiar with the book ROTK really lessened my enjoyment of the movie ROTK. It's my least favorite of the three films... the only scene in the movie ROTK that I honestly felt came close to the book was the end at the Grey Havens (and Sam's return home). If I look at the movie as an adaptation of the book I really can't enjoy it; it I can detach myself enough to look at it as just a movie, then I can enjoy it for itself.
1,716 posted on 06/04/2004 8:29:22 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Some get saved after seeing the light, some after feeling the heat)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
If I look at the movie as an adaptation of the book I really can't enjoy it; it I can detach myself enough to look at it as just a movie, then I can enjoy it for itself.

I do that with a lot of movies, too. I've experienced a similar problem with just about every supehero comic adaptation I've seen--they always have to change something. . .

1,720 posted on 06/04/2004 8:34:20 PM PDT by Fedora (Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
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