Yeah, sure....but do you get what I mean about that sense of unreality that sets in after awhile when the "good guys" don't lose a single man while slaying hundreds or thousands?

I mean...why even worry about the good guys if they are to all intents immortal??? ;-) It defeats the sense of real drama for me.

In a great movie, "The Last of the Mohicans", a number of important characters we've come to know well and probably empathize with die during the movie. That gives it a hell of a lot more emotional impact than if they had slain upwards of 5,000 Iroquois warriors and all made it through without losing a single life on their own side, doesn't it?

The general public apparently prefers (or at least has fed TO them) completely unreal fantasies where only the "bad guys" die...and by the hundreds. Well, that's just silly. Mind you, they did have some heroic Dwarves die in the flashbacks....apparently the Orcs did know how to fight back then! ;-)

It's a minor complaint. I did quite liked the movie anyway, and I expect I'll like the next 2 installments of it.

We don't live in a world so simple that you can tell the "good guys" and the "bad guys" from what race or nation they belong to. Some would like it to be that way, some are even deluded enough to think it IS that way, but it never will be.