Perry Twins....The Empire!

Brother Meredith said:
What don’t you like about the films @symphonicpoet? 🤔
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I found the pacing unpleasant; it felt very jumpy. I'm going to move through things very quickly for a little while, cutting between scenes that have two or three lines in them (everything between leaving Hobbiton arriving at Last Bridge over Hoarwell), and then spend a large amount of time on developing new characters that don't necessarily advance the story. I didn't care for the lack of attention to details in the story about things like locations or casting; using fields of maize for fields of corn, or making Sam fat and blonde when he was actually canonically the skinniest and darkest of the four hobbits if you read between the lines just a little bit. I didn't much care for the over-the-top Newhammer style costuming for the elves, orcs, and dwarves in particular. (Which, to be fair, the did hire a bunch of GW folks for the design, but I'm an Oldhammerer for a reason.) I really, really, really hated what they did with Faramir. I disliked that they gave so much emphasis to the battle scenes and so little to the character development that happened between them. They made it more of an action film, and less of a journey of discovery, which I think was a mistake. It's . . . a long list. I respect that people enjoyed it. But I wasn't one of those people, and the things I most like about the story, the deep humanity and humility of it, are mostly absent for the films.
 
Did the film have Legolas rather than Glorfindel meet them before Rivendell too?
Also someone said something about there being a goblin villain that rides spiders in the Hobbit film?
 
I half recall they had Arwen Evenstar meet them before Rivendell. Jackson significantly expanded her part. Which seemed artificial and arbitrary, but the biggest thing really was the change from a journey story about ordinary people surviving the horrors of war and somehow coming out the other side; a story fundamentally about the futility of war itself, about the hollowness of victory in battle, about loss, and diminishing, and just surviving; about the importance of retaining yourself in near impossible circumstances, and of love, and luck, and things beyond all human control being the only source of any lasting victory; into an absolutely banal Hollywood action flick.
 
Michael Stockin said:
Did the film have Legolas rather than Glorfindel meet them before Rivendell too?
Also someone said something about there being a goblin villain that rides spiders in the Hobbit film?
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I am completely off the rails, and most people like the thing, so please skip past this as necessary. I'm going to try to make this my last comment on the subject, but I can't resist a direct question.

I half recall they had Arwen Evenstar meet them before Rivendell. Jackson significantly expanded her part. Which seemed artificial and arbitrary, but the biggest thing really was the change from a journey story about ordinary people surviving the horrors of war and somehow coming out the other side; a story fundamentally about the futility of war itself, about the hollowness of victory in battle, about loss, and diminishing, and just surviving; about the importance of retaining yourself in near impossible circumstances, and of love, and luck, and things beyond all human control being the only source of any lasting victory; into an absolutely banal Hollywood action flick.

Okay, back to the Perry twins. Sorry.
 
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