...and comic books function largely through a cooperation of graphic art and text. While it is possible to tell a story simply with pictures in a comic book, the artist’s/author’s additions to the illustrations via descriptive text and narration are meant to elaborate on pre-existing notions that may or may not wholly come through by means of the illustrations alone.

Since the film is an adapation of a graphic novel-and as far as I’m concerned has never attempted to hide or deny that fact- it would seem appropriate that the creative forces involved would work to keep the feeling of the original work somewhat intact for a theater-going audience. Hence the “inane” voice over that apparently ruined the film for you.

If you went in to the film not expecting a graphic novel on film, I can imagine you would have found many things to be frustrating.

Cheers.

The over the top content of the voice-over was to be expected—but Faramir’s ridiculous performance is not to be forgiven. Outside of that I thought the movie was a lot of fun.