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Originally posted by SixOfSpades:
Yeah, I knew I'd be taking some heat over that, but felt morally obligated to post it anyway. Note, however, my use of the word "can." I said "If your imagination is shallow or mediocre, you can see the films and be absolutely blown away by the cool imagery. If your imagination is better than PJ's, you can see the films and be disappointed." That does <u>NOT</u> equate to my stating that liking the films proves that you're shallow.
With that said, however, there are plenty of people in the world with less imagination than PJ. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, either.
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I'd suggest that the same sentiment can be applied in both directions... there's a LOT of people out there who hate the movies because their imagination is too limited to allow more than one (their) interpretation of the text. I've really enjoyed watching the movie and listening to the book on cd and noting the many changes to the storyline that PJ and team made. Some were good, some not so good... but in the end I feel the movie was faithful to Tolkiens vision and the majority of their alterations were pretty well done.
I further believe that it would not be possible to create a 100% faithful version of the story, even if the character text was followed exactly, there would still be poeple complaining about PJ's interpretation of the sense imagery. Additionally there'd be a LOT of people complaining about how slow the story progressed (there was enough of that in these movies)... heck... the hypothetical perfect LOTR movie would be at MINIMUM twice as long as they are now, likely closer to three times as long.