Give it a break!

Rating: Null/10 (3 January 2003)

What is this gibbering nonsense about Faramir & the CGI?
warning - spoilers! -------------------
It seems that nitpickers and ninnies have latched on to two particular aspects of TTT to try and claim the film is rubbish. Both points are particularly hollow:
Faramir - various issues have been raised:
1) he is too similar to Boromir - they are brothers for fricks sake - what do you expect? In the book Faramir is described as close to Boromir but closer to the true line of Numenor.
2) He does not let the hobbits go at the Forbidden Pool but drags them to Osgiliath? And? So what? Does this really diminish him? He still does the right thing in the end.
3) Everyone in Gondor seems to know of the Ring. No, totally incorrect if you actually watched the film
4) His life becomes forfeit for letting the Ring go. No, amazingly incorrect for supposed fans of the book to complain - his life becomes forfeit for letting the hobbits go. By decree of the Steward of Gondor any individuals found in its territory near Mordor must be killed or taken as prisoner to Gondor - because Denethor suspects the Ring is returning to Mordor - as is explained in the book if you could read.
5) The Nazgul sequence looks false - really?
6) The CGI sucks? What planet exactly do you folks live on? Or have you returned from some distant future where CGI has reached unknown levels?

Frankly every comment against this film can be categorised under 3 subsets:
1) People whose bums seem to demand more of their attention than anything else so they cannot sit through a 3 hour film - deserve some pity for a painful physical condition
2) People who simply have no appreciation of anything with a 'fantasy' premise as they have no imagination whatsoever - deserve even more pity for the drab and dreary lives they must lead
3) People who simply like to jump up & down and scream 'look at me, I'm different, I know something you all don't, look, look!!!' - deserve no pity whatsoever as they are the same types that make life a pain for everyone in any arena.
Give it a break. This is a great film. Not the greatest. But still great.