Jan Coffey wrote: <snip>
> Unfortunately the third movie did not hold together ~without~ the > books. If you did not have the books as a point of reference, the > movie seemed split and fragmented. Without the battle for the shire, > the last 3 minutes of the movie were somehow tacked on and mostly > useless. I must have spent an hour after the movie explaining to > everyone what happened in the book after they left MT and especially, > where the heck Mithrandir, Frodo, Bilbo, and the Elves were off to on > the boat, and more importantly ~why~ they had to go. Even people who > had read the book didn't pick up on Mithrandir being the "3ed ring > bearer". > > I don't know if it was just the way I read the books, but I never > imagined The army from under the mountain as being "pirates of the > Caribbean "-esk I had imagined them as corporeal and able to be > wounded. So the green mass sweeping up MT was a bit ~too~ DEM for me > (DEM as it was). My mother would disagree with you. She's never read the books and didn't see the first two movies. After she stopped sniffling at the end of the movie, she said that after the first 45 minutes or so, she had figured out what THIS movie was about. I DID talk her into watching the first two at home with her two grandsons who got both extended versions for Christmas. George A _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
