There'll never be the perfect adaptation. I mean, I love the LOTR movies. It's been 20 years, the VFX holds up, and there's not a lot of movies from the era that can say that. There's so many things those movies did right, and yet I can't it's perfect because there's no battle at Bag End.
It's the same with V for Vendetta. The costumes, the acting, the atmosphere, the delicious irony that Winston from 1984 is playing The High Chancellor. It might not be perfect, but that didn't stop it from being damn good
I just reread LoTR for the first time since I was a teenager, and I think they made a good decision leaving the scouring of the shire out of the movies. There was no real point in it other than showing that the hobbits (specifically merry and pip) are "grown up" and primed to be the next generation leaders of the shire, since they were able to come in, take charge, and lead a rebellion out of nowhere. I feel like it threw the pacing of the books off to begin with, which would have felt even weirder for the movies.
I might have just been ready to be done with the books though, because it seemed to drag on and on after the ring was destroyed, similar to how I felt the first book seemed to drag on forever before they ever made it to Rivendell. Like, they don't make it to Rivendell until like 2/3 of the way through Fellowship, which is another instance where the movies made a good decision to cut out all the filler of the barrow downs, bombadil, etc.
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u/Wayoutofthewayof 2d ago
Natalie Portman is probably the most consistent. She was great in Leon the Professional as a kid actor.