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I like a lot of the changes in the Count of Monte Cristo movie. Making Mondego the central villain. The happier ending. Making Mercedes's son actually Dantes's. Honestly, I just thought the adaption worked really well. It kept the themes of the book, but made workable changes.

I don't know if like/dislike would be the right word, but I get having the elves at Helm's Deep. Since we know in the books that the elves are fighting their own battles against Sauron, but they can't really show that in the movie, it was a change that made sense (now, having the elves all die did not make sense at all).

As much as Glorfindel in the book is awesome, I also don't mind the scene where Arwen takes Frodo to Rivendell and stands against the Nazgul.

Cutting things like Tom Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire also makes sense. I think those were both good decisions.

I think the one change I like in Cuaron's A Little Princess is the weaving in of the Hindu story. That was pretty cool.

I thought expanding the Hobbit to a certain extent made sense. It made the relationship between Bilbo and the Dwarves, particularly Thorin, more evident, so it made the ending possible to feel more? But a lot of the additions and changes sucked. But the idea of strengthening the relationships was great, and they did achieve it to a certain extent. Also, showing Gandalf vs. Necromancer was a good idea because otherwise you have Gandalf just disappearing and then reappearing.

It's been a long time since I saw CoMC but I remember also liking the changes, especially if you're paring it down to movie length. My dad and I watch the French version a lot, but to me it's like having the BBC Pride and Prejudice and the 1995 one - both have their merits and I like that both exist.

For LOTR and Hobbit, I feel that a lot of the changes were good in theory but lousy in execution. I would've been happy to see the Elves in Helm's Deep if they did anything with them (or it made any sense that Elrond sent them, rather than Galadriel). I also would've loved more of the Council vs the Necromancer but that was such a letdown in the actual film. I also thought distinguishing the Dwarves was good but it actually took away from the film in the end because the screentime was spread too thin with them and didn't allow for the important ones to stand out.

I agree with you. I still love the LOTR movies and tolerate the Hobbit ones. But they definitely didn't quite execute a lot of things, especially ideas they had about changes. There are parts of both trilogies that feel really rushed and parts of the Hobbit (and probably LOTR too) that are dragged out too long (particularly battles).

Ngl I know logically and realistically and practically speaking that cutting Tom Bombadil was the right choice, but I'm still irrationally disappointed that it was done because I find his entire sequence hilariously weird in the books and it would have been even funnier to me on screen.

A lot of Monte Cristo adaptations make Fernand the Count's final and greatest foe, and I think that's a cool idea given that he's the villain with the most similarities to the Count. Gankutsuou has a very cool take on this that I won't spoil. (Actually, Gankutsuou has a lot of cool ideas, like making Albert the perspective character, or the ultimate fate and plot significance of Franz.)

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