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⌈ Secret Post #3471 ⌋

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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]

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[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]

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[1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum]

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[outlander, ontd-sassenach]

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(Voltron: Legendary Defender)

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[Michael Kamen]

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[Captain America (MCU), Daredevil (MCU), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and Bleach]

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The characterization of Sara in Cuaron's A Little Princess adaption just bugs me. Also, while I can live with the father being alive and the setting change to America during WW1, the whole police thing was annoying.

Wizard of Oz. The thing that bugs me most in the movie is the It is all a dream thing. Although Dorothy's characterization bugs me too.

For Lord of the Rings, I do love the movies, but there are little things that bug me. Like the "wood elves going to the sea" thing. No. It wasn't wood elves. Those are the ones who stay. Also, elvish characterizations, especially of Elrond. And the change about the destruction of the Ring. There was a whole point to the fact that in the book what happens is Gollum takes the Ring, dances for joy, and falls into the volcano. Having Frodo push him in changes that.

Frodo didn't push him in though? Frodo attacked Gollum back after the finger-biting to try to get the ring again, and they both fell over the edge and Frodo grabbed the rocks just in time.

Okay, yes. But still, Frodo attacking Gollum is very different from what happens in the book. It makes Frodo look almost heroic there and makes it seem like he's the one who destroys the ring. The book is very clear on that. No one can do it. Frodo can't. It is only fate or whatever that makes Gollum fall into the volcano as he is dancing. The movie scene changes that.

Errrrr...I don't know about that. I mean, I agree that the stroke of luck/fate would have been the better way to go for that scene, but Tolkien himself said:

"Frodo too would then probably, if not attacked, have had to take the same way: cast himself with the Ring into the abyss."

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He attacked Gollum out of lust for the ring (as evidenced by the crazed look on his face). Even if it inadvertently leads to the ring being destroyed, how does that make him look almost heroic? It's pure circumstance.

I saw it more as the ring being an idiot and inadvertedly destroying itself, considering Frodo only attacked Gollum because he wanted to take the ring back. Since he only did this because of the ring's influence on his mind, nobody actually destroyed the ring, it destroyed itself.

Ugh, I can't stand most of the spinoff Wizard of Oz movies. (Legends of Oz the one with the annoying girl from Glee, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Wicked) but I do enjoy Return to Oz and the two cartoons I watched as a kid.

I hated, hated, HATED Alfonso Cuaron's treatment of A Little Princess, and after his handling of Prisoner of Azkaban, I came to the conclusion that he should just never try to make a movie based on a book ever again, because he apparently cannot read.

Oz being a dream bugged me too. It isn't in the books.

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