Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows split into 2 movies.

[Delano]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

Kind of like the LOTR movies dumping Tom Bombadil.

When I watched the first movie and noticed they left out the Bombadil bit and the dagger they found, I wondered how the hobbits would kill the wraith king.

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by Delano

When I watched the first movie and noticed they left out the Bombadil bit and the dagger they found, I wondered how the hobbits would kill the wraith king.

I wasn't fond of Aragorn going "hey guys, here are some swords", but in all seriousness, the thing tha thappened with Tom that had much later significance was the finding of the swords in the barrow downs, and you couldn't add 20 minutes to the movie just for that, so the decision had to be made.

I was far more annoyed at other stuff in the movie. Each one had something to irk me. In the first it was when Aragorn and Frodo are perched on a swaying tower of stone in Moria, weighing god knows how many tons, and Aragorn says "lean forward" and the swaying rock falls forward and they are miraculously saved. Ugh.

1. like 300 pounds of man/hobbit meat would affect anything under those circumstances.

2. didn't Gandalf display TELEKENETIC powers in the movie? Why couldn't he help.

3. most important -- read Tolkien, and one thing that does NOT really play much of a role in helping the good guys is BLIND, DUMB, STUPID LUCK! It's hard work, dedication, steadfastness in the face of danger and against all odds.

I know I"m obsessed about it, but that scene truly pisses me off. There's absolutely no justification for it from an artistic or drama or "gotta do something different, this is a movie after all" point of view.

I'm a bit unfond of the teleketic battle between Saruman and Gandalf, but I undertsand the need for direct conflict, which doesn't exist in the books.

That swaying rock thing though. Stupid, and without reason.