Well my guess is you'll be disappointed.
I get what you mean about less action sequences. That's why Fellowship is my favourite of the trilogy, it's most Tolkien, while the others are mostly War movies.
But, I have to take you up on the gratuitous CGI. Can you give a few examples of where you thought it was uneccessary? I thought they did a great job in with use of models, sets and costume/makeup where it would otherwise have been mighty tempting to use CGI. Of course, there's plenty of CGI, but it was a necessary for such a fantastic story.
On top of that, most of my initial grievances with any differences from the book were eventually forgiven after well reasoned justification from the writers. I do emphasise "most". Can't win 'em all.
I get what you mean about less action sequences. That's why Fellowship is my favourite of the trilogy, it's most Tolkien, while the others are mostly War movies.
But, I have to take you up on the gratuitous CGI. Can you give a few examples of where you thought it was uneccessary? I thought they did a great job in with use of models, sets and costume/makeup where it would otherwise have been mighty tempting to use CGI. Of course, there's plenty of CGI, but it was a necessary for such a fantastic story.
On top of that, most of my initial grievances with any differences from the book were eventually forgiven after well reasoned justification from the writers. I do emphasise "most". Can't win 'em all.