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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
It is important to understand that the target audience for movies and books is different. Reading is quite different from movie watching -- where one needs to create all visuals in their head while reading, it is less creative while watching.
Harry Potter was mentioned, which I believe to be a bad movie series by itself. Without being knowledgable about the books or having read them the movies make little sense at times. It has the feel of trying to cash in on the same audience again that already read the books. Harry Potter tries to be exactly like the books, IMO.
LOTR was a tall order to begin with - there is no way to do the book justice, especially with the author long dead and gone. And then again, it allowed Peter Jackson to be as creative with changes as necessary. One step further and The Hobbit is not even trying to be a "copy" of the book, but losely based on it. Stand alone those 6 movies work great as movies. It is a bit unfair that LOTR got bashed by changing too much from the book.
I enjoyed Ready Player One very much as book for what it is - a homage to old style video games. The movie? I was hoping for a closer to the book adaption. Something more like the movie Pixels. I have based this merely on reviews so far -- as I understand it is an enjoyable movie, which I am waiting to go down in price before buying. If I want to relive the book, I just read the book again, which doesn't cost me any additional money.
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I think that some of the knock on LOTR isn't that they changed too much, but some of the changes were not necessary and took away. The whole battle of Gondor, with the charge of the Gondor army against dug in orcs, rather and a holding action against an overwhelming host and the army of ghosts sweeping the fields wasn't needed and took away from the idea of the valor of the Gondor people. The major changes to the Faramir character, from someone who wants nothing to do with the Ring to someone who is barely able to resist the Ring is something else that gives some Tolkien fans heartburn.