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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I really couldn't stand any of the movies, thought they all butchered the meaning of the books, I didn't mind that they had to edit out sections to give it a reasonable run time, it was that it seemed Jackson didnt really get the point of the books at all
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
To be clear I'm not saying LoTR is a terrible set of movies, I'm saying I didn't like them, it's almost always hard to like an film adaption of a book that you are really familiar with, ironically the book is, in my opinion, way to rambling and I've never understood the reverence it gets, it's a nice bit of fantasy that's all
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So the movies were butchered because they didn't capture all the rambling of the books? If the books are nothing more than a nice bit of fantasy then what's this meaning that the films butchered? Your criticism of the films doesn't make a lot of sense.