by Michael on Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:39 am
Bombadil is the great anomaly in the original books and the 80's movie version also left it out, wisely I think. I don't mind new or omitted events as much as the overall tone, such as what zen said about the surfing. Also, I know it made perfect sense to increase the role of Arwen to appeal to a wider audience, but the way her scenes were filmed and scored was so melodramatic and dreamy that I just wish they'd had a consistent, serious tone throughout the movies, with bits of laughter and frivolity where appropriate.
I thought Jackson did a great job with the scene where Denethor is gorging himself and he seems to be good with such sequences from previous films, but Shelob's lair was maddening. There are lots of examples of subterranean action in cinema, one of the best was the Polish WW2 film Kanal (1957), so why did Jackson decide to film it like a sequel to Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)*? The tone of the directing and filming, as well as music and editing, is so inconsistent. If only Melkor could have reincarnated Peckinpah and Kubrick to do the editing.
*an actual movie
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