Why I'd better not see the "Hobbit" movie

[dbskyler]

"Return of the King" is on my TV right now. I happened to turn it on at the point where Frodo and Sam are almost to the Crack of Doom, and Gollum attacks them. I watched for only about 10 minutes or so. Here are the errors I noticed:

1) At the edge of the Crack of Doom, when Frodo is standing there with the Ring and says "The Ring is mine," he leaves out the beginning: "I have come, but I do not choose to do what I came here to do." Okay, it's a little thing, but I noticed it. Mainly I was waiting for him to say it because there was all this close-up camera work on his face, and I'm like, "Say it! Say it! No, wait, you only said part of it."

2) When Frodo puts the Ring on his finger, the armies of Sauron are supposed to falter, as if suddenly bereft of direction, as all the will of Sauron is turned towards the Ring. But instead they keep on fighting.

3) Gollum dies because after he bites off Frodo's finger, Frodo attacks him again. The two of them go over the edge, but Frodo manages to hang onto the rock. Wrong! Gollum is supposed to go over the edge by himself, from dancing with excitement.

4) When Frodo wakes up in Ithilien, he is greeted in bed by the entire Fellowship, including Sam. But Frodo is supposed to wake up before Sam, and then fall asleep again waiting for him.

I should explain that I can't even remember the last time I read "Return of the King" -- it's been years. But I had it practically memorized when I was 13 or so, and obviously I still remember it very well, and don't like changes.

Comments

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can't separate the movies from the books either. There's just the one story, and the movies are telling it WRONG!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

YANA!

My friend Juliet says she can separate the two, despite also being very familiar with the books - but I can't even begin to get my head around that.

I did see all three LotR movies at the cinema when they came out - but I found myself twitching throughout each time. I learnt my lesson then, and swore not to spend my hard-earned on watching The Hobbit (especially since Jackson's turned it into a 3 movie epic!)

When the first Hobbit movie came out on DVD I contemplated renting it - but so far it hasn't happened, and now the second one's at the cinema, so I probably won't...