Paulo Gabriel
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May 30 2020, 1:22am
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And I don't care if the general audience doesn't care. It looks dumb.
One doesn't have to reach quite this far to depend the worst parts of these movies. It's ok to like the Hobbit movies and admit that some parts are not that great.
...yet I see nothing ''dumb'' about this, especially as the same has been done in the earlier trilogy, which is ironically so ''acclaimed'', by, and I quote, ''people who apparently have never seen a decent adaptation or a decent war movie''.
Re the first point: ''Now, there are all kinds of technical and logistical problems in the sequence, such as how Viggo, Orlando, and John got from Dunharrow to Umbar without any horses (unlike the books, all the horses run away and don't come back) but I suppose if Elrond can ride across mountains and hundreds of miles in a day or so, then they can run all the way to the coast in a couple hours. (Or they borrow zombie horses, I guess.) But those are really inconsequential, compared to the big problem at the center. And that is that there are no living Men to be rallied, no villagers, no fisherfolk, no POWs to free from the oars of the Corsairs' dromonds, no local lord to bring his own soldiers to the aid of Gondor — none of the rest of the people whose absence Pippin's companions in Gondor didn't lament after the arrival of allies which didn't happen in the movie. So, since they couldn't handle the politics of Middle-earth, J/B/W were forced to come up with some other solution to the problem. And that was to make the Dead utterly mundane''.
(This post was edited by Paulo Gabriel on May 30 2020, 1:23am)
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