Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
SOME THINGS JUST DDON'T WORK ON FILM. OTHER THINGS DO. PETER AND FRAN CHANGED THESE THINGS FOR A REASON THOUGH IT PAINED THEM TO DO SO. THIS IS WHY I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE TO WATCH THE MOVIE BEFORE READING THE BOOKS.

Oh please. They said very clearly in the commentary on ROTK that they essentially changed things to cope with people's attention spans. They said that if the movies had all been released at once, there would have been far fewer changes. So they really changed things because they didn't think people would remember what had happened in the previous movie. Most of the people I talked to either rented FOTR before seeing TTT (and the same for ROTK) or rewatched their DVD the night of the movie.

I am seriously getting sick of these director's and producer's saying they're changing things essentially because "people are stupid and can't remember anything". The people who are going to the theater to see these movies are not stupid and can very easily remember what happened in the last one.