Whats wrong with you people???

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 2003)

Ok all...I have been greatly awaiting the release of this film on dvd...I was unable to see it in the theaters. Now i have yet to see the film...but thats not really why im writng this. I came to this sight to get a decent review on this film (which i found) and i was horrified by the biased and single-minded comments made by some users. Now..first of all this IS a Film..Movie etc...NOT A BOOK!!! Yes it was based on a very well written and well loved trilogy but the book is the book and the film is the film...they r not intertwineable or in any way to be confused. Fans of the book complained over and over about the lack of people or situations from the book in the movie. For one...you only have so much screen time u can use...how many book fans want to sit through a 4 or 5 hour part of a trilogy?? when u read a book...what takes a few words to describe can take a huge amount of screen time to portray...So of course not all will be included in the film. I mean really..look at titanic...it was based on the actual even but was there a huge love story playing out on board while the boat sank?? No. But without that part...the movie would have never been as well loved and accepted and never become the great piece of filmaking it has. As far as the cgi graphics used in them movie..well some of the comments used on that subject were just stupid (no offense). I remember reading one person say that they would have rather have seen a puppet or an actor in a suit play golem...that it would have been more realistic. For one...how many golems do u know?? None same here..lol.. So why complain about realism to something that doesnt exist? Its suppose to be unreal...bigger and more fantastic than life...not a part of it. As far as the puppet comment...how "real" did the fraggles look...or the muppets?? Come on now.lol. Personally as one who knows how much of a pain computer programming can be..the job they did was outstanding(i have seen all behind the scenes shows :-) )The amount of work it must have taken to come up with the technology to take 100,000 seperate creatures and give each of them a mind of there own and have them act as seperate entities..must have been mind-boggling..they could have easily gave us another mass of mindless drones acting and moving in a military like fashion of follow the leader. In closing i just need to say...Take the movie for what it is..a movie..not a book or a high school project to disect. Sit down...turn down the lights..grab ur popcorn..and enjoy the show... I know i will tonight...but ill be back to write my real review of the movie instead of this rant...lol Happy watching!!