• toasteecup@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Anon didn’t read the books.

    Samwise goes to the undying lands after having a family, watching them become adults and a stint as the mayor of hobbiton.

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      9 months ago

      I respect the movies, but the further into the story they got the more incomprehensible and arbitrary the deviations from the book became.

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        9 months ago

        if you know the story how Harvey Weinstein wanted to cut down Studio Ghibli out of pure pettiness as a power play, you understand how these garbage edits happen

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          9 months ago

          That bad they had to cut down very lengthy books into very long movies but movies all the same

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          9 months ago

          We’ve had skimmed lord of the rings movies yes, but what about semi-skimmed lord of the rings movies?

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        9 months ago

        Istr there being a story that sir Ian was always carrying the book around and coming up to the director pointing out ways how the shots could be made more correct.

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          The LOTR movie was full of absolute legends, from sir Ian suggesting lore accurate shots, to Christopher Lee showing Peter Jackson how people truly die when stabbed in the lungs.

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      9 months ago

      also Gandalf was the one who insisted he go with Frodo, after his dubious claims against ‘dropping eaves’.

      so why would Frodo be telling Gandalf about the person who Gandalf insisted on going with him?

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      Yeah the movies did frodo dirty. He does not abandon his only friend at the borders of the black land

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      9 months ago

      He also doesn’t ever abandon Sam or even think about taking Smeagols word over his. I get why the story structure of the movie demanded some kind of wrinkle at that point, but that’s the one deviation from the books I never liked at all

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      9 months ago

      Yea but Sam wasn’t experiencing hardcore PTSD from the combo of carrying the ring and getting stabbed by a morgul blade

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        I always thought that’s what Sam understood. The ring was fucking with Frodo and what Frodo was doing wasn’t normal so he stepped up. It’s like when your friend is tripping balls and paranoid but you’re still there to help.