I'm Curious...

[dipsas]

The Two Towers was on TV here last night. I couldn't help but watch parts of it. The first time I saw this movie was in the theatre, and I loved it, not because I thought it was perfect rendering of the books (which it certainly wasn't) but because it was quite a powerful experience to see how others had visualised at least parts of a story and a

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[straussmonster]

I tried to watch The Two Towers and just couldn't. Not even trying to compare it to the book, my current roomie and I decided that it was just goddamn unwatchable on its own. So we put on some Oz reruns instead.

[dipsas]

I think I probably would have preferred the Oz reruns last night, too...

[lyras]

Hi! Here via mctabby's friending frenzy; we seem to have various friends in common, and I'm also a Remus Lupin and genfic fan. Therefore I'm about to friend you - hope that's OK :).

I've had a similar experience with the LOTR films, btw - was blown away, quite emotionally, by them at the cinema, but now each time I watch them I find myself picking more holes. I've not watched them now for about six months, and I'm hoping that next time I pick them up I'll be less critical. Because they are fantastic cinematic experiences, and in a way we're extremely lucky that it was someone like Jackson who finally got around to making them and not, say, Spielberg

[dipsas]

*waves hi!* Yes, I've been seeing you around too! It's so nice to have an excuse to finally go on that friending spree... :)

Another thing about the films - I think they suffer very much from not being displayed on a large screen, like in the theatre. No matter how good a TV set you've got, it can't make the grand scenery shots justice - and to me, that was the foundation that made Jackson's movies work.

[lyras]

...to me, that was the foundation that made Jackson's movies work.

That makes sense to me. While watching the films at the cinema, I was utterly swept away, and prepared to forgive anything that didn't match my interpretation of the books - Arwen as Glorfindel, for example. Whereas now, Arwen's role in the first film irks me more each time I watch it. Grr...

[dipsas]

Oh yes, Arwen... And the way they've randomly given characters other characters' lines, like they have no influence on characterisation...

But I didn't mind that at all the first time I saw them.

[sumairaijaz]

You know that I think the only thing I've ever read after having seen the film adaptation was The Shawshank Redemption; in that case, I was glad to have seen the film first, as the ending had much more of an OH! so that's what he was up to! impact. But I appreciated the novella too for fleshing out certain aspects of the story and characters.