Re: Movies Based on Books...
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no case can be made for lord of the rings, especially because they left out the single most important part of book three...
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In general, the movies were better than a straight adaptation of the book would have been. I missed Tom Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire too, and they would have been welcome additions, but there were many other choices made that worked better for the film than a direct
No, I don't think a book adaptation of the films would be better than the original books. What works better in print does not always work better on the screen, and vice versa.
In that sense, I think the films are better than a video-book would have been.
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