bacon
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Post by bacon on Sept 18, 2005 17:10:20 GMT -5
I despised this change in the movies pretty much more than anything else.
I'll present my 'arguement' when someone replies.
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Yogurt
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Post by Yogurt on Sept 19, 2005 18:07:53 GMT -5
It's not realistic. It took them like, 2 hours to get there, and it took the Fellowship days to arrive at Helm's Deep.
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Post by bacon on Sept 19, 2005 18:10:54 GMT -5
Half a month actually.
In the movie, the size of the army is reduced to 300 when in the book it was somewhere around two thousand.
I actually think it's better this way. Gives it a weird sense of depression.
Phillipa, I believe, said on the EE commentary that this was supposed to be a sign of unity of all ccreatures to fight against Middle-Earth.
It would have been great if they were informed of this at the very beginning of the movie instead of fifteen minutes before the battle.
Though I do think elves are cool they simply don't belong at Helm's Deep.
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Yogurt
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Post by Yogurt on Sept 19, 2005 18:12:55 GMT -5
Just a question, but why was Helm's Deep at the end of book 3 in TTT?
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Post by bacon on Sept 19, 2005 18:19:27 GMT -5
Feel free to make your own thread for any questions. It could generate discussion. I've gone ahead though: ThreadOkay, back on topic.  I think the whole elf thing came about as a reason to include Galadriel's 'midlogue'. |
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Post by minyaliel on Sept 20, 2005 4:31:59 GMT -5
I must say, I think all the changes made to the story line, including how they used Arwen (she's hardly mentioned in TT) just sick, pointless and blasphemic. (I just had to say that). And, concerning the elfies arriving Helm's Deep, that's just as silly as that Helm's Deep movie on badgerbadger.com. I mean, how could they have gotten there so soon? And, why the heck would Galadriel send those there when they obviously were needed to defend the Lothlorien borders? That's the same as risking an invasion in one of the most important locations (politically) in the whole of ME!!And that just doesn't make sense at all. *shoots MJ for doing such a stupid thing to the most complete book/ story line ever written*
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bacon
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Post by bacon on Sept 20, 2005 21:30:52 GMT -5
I didn't think ALL the changes were bad, but I didn't like this one. It's just... eh.
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Post by Gorbin on Sept 21, 2005 18:19:54 GMT -5
I liked it
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Post by FrostBite on Sept 21, 2005 18:23:04 GMT -5
this is my least favorite change out of all the changes. it was just crazy
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bacon
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Post by bacon on Sept 26, 2005 16:08:21 GMT -5
And, like I've said before... just didn't work.
Any other opinions?
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Post by FrostBite on Oct 2, 2005 9:50:31 GMT -5
i just thought it was crazy because it was supposed to be the mens battle. the elves weren't supposed to help. it was supposed to be a near hopeless last attempt to get rid of the orcs by the men. and like yogurt said, how'd they get their so fast? |
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Post by FireStarter on Oct 4, 2005 17:54:31 GMT -5
Well,I didnt notice a thing  |
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bacon
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Post by bacon on Oct 4, 2005 17:56:33 GMT -5
It must only stand out to idiots like me. |
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Post by FireStarter on Oct 4, 2005 17:58:29 GMT -5
WTF Cam your smarter than me |
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Post by Sword the Valiant on Oct 24, 2005 12:26:39 GMT -5
The elves were kool.
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