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Rating: Null/10 (23 April 2003)

i've read the hobbit & LotR more than twice, and i liked both of the LotR films--the second a few degrees less. both films needed someone to proofread the scripts; i'll elaborate on this point in a bit.
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even though the battle @ helm's deep was unnecessarily long, it was rather spectacular. however, the warg battle, the dwarf jokes, and the false death of viggogorn were entirely unnecessary and drained the script-writing energy out of more deserving parts of the story. yeah, yeah, i know and even respect the notion that cinema is a different medium from the literary, but what if jackson's FotR had spent an hour in the realm of tom bombadil and tossed in a new battle sequence at the shire, leaving less than two hours for the remainder of the story? whereas FotR's priorities were largely well-placed (i can't thank jackson enough for having brought this book to the screen), TTT suffered from a lack of focus. TTT's being the middle film in jackson's trilogy really doesn't explain the silly plot liberties, as some here have suggested.
despite my delight at gollum's overall depiction, i did find his modern psychoanalytic utterings a bit out of place. the ents were somewhat more disney-animatronic than i'd imagined, but this is a minor gripe.
despite my criticisms, i was able to enjoy TTT to a fair degree; i just won't watch it over and over again the way i did FotR, unless the extended DVD release is particularly strong.
what really bugged me about the films, however, was the jacked usage and grammar. to each his own peeves, i guess, but these goofs really jarred me out of middle earth more than any dwarf-tossing joke.
FotR: elrond says, 'blah blah blah from whence it came.' whence is an odd bird of a word, combining both a preposition and a subordinating conjunction--it means 'from where.' thus, 'from whence'='from from where.' bahh!
TTT: theoden says something like, 'no parent should have to bury their child.' that was a nasty pronoun-antecedent mismatch; no king should have to speak so poorly! (though an american president with a third-grade vocabulary often gets away with worse.) 'parent' is singular; 'their' is not.
heck, i'd proofread the scripts free of charge if mr. jackson would let me.