Indie movies are soo much better!

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Originally Posted by King of Snake

of course the LOTR trilogy isn't Hollywood either, and the story (at least most of it) is taken directly from the books, so you can hardly accuse Peter Jackson of anything

Well, given that he directed the films it's pretty safe to say he had some impact on how the books were translated to film, so yeah I would pretty much hold him responsible for what I feel their failings are

Again, like I said above, what works on page rarely works the same way on screen -- books provide good narrative structure but rarely accomplish on screen what works in the medium (which is why I offered the example of Hitch, who when adapting books would read only a handful of pages and "fill out" the rest of a film adaptation with details that worked, cinematically).