Films and source material.

[kpkelley]

Adaptations should be judged on their own merit. Rather than bicker over the lotr movies, use a source which has garnered more iterations on screen so that you can compare them to how they utilized the source material to greater cinematic effect(i.e. Dracula or the Bible). For example which is more faithful to the original source The last temptation of Christ or The Passion of the Christ? Which was a better movie? Was it better because of how it was truer to the source or in how it differed from it?