• tankplanker@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    The film is helped with amazing casting and a lot of care over the script. However there are things that were changed that do not matter and done for the right reason, such as Arwen being given more screen time (not quite a sausage fest as it was before), Glorfindels role in the Black Rides bit, but also bits that I really didn’t like, such as messing with the power levels of Gandalf and Witch-king during their confrontation.

    This lead to the abomination that is the Hobbit adaptation, partly because the film studio wanted to add an Aragorn to it, despite Thorin being nothing like Aragorn, and adding the three way love triangle because people liked the expanded Arwen story from LotR.

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      12 hours ago

      Yes, I very distinctly talk LotR only.

      As for Hobbit, the Maple films edit made it quite ok and cuts most of the questionable stuff. Still too much Alfrid though. I hated Alfrid more than the love triangle if you’d believe it.

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah Alfrid was awful, I didn’t like anything about that characterization.

        I haven’t tried the Maple films edit, the M4 edit was my favorite of the ones I have tried, its super aggressive with what it cuts out and tweaks the film grading