Air Juggernaut Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Crush harry potter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 I like both equally. The books are both top-notch. Now whether LotR will stand up to the excellent HP movie adaptation remains to be seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air Juggernaut Posted December 17, 2001 Author Share Posted December 17, 2001 I don´t feel myself represented by a kid. Today I see photos of the film, you see the orcs armor? it rocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR2000Z Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 I dont think Ill see the movie untill I read the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 I'm seeing it opening day. for free, after school. in my underwea.... i mean .... pants. in my pants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 As I said in another thread, pants are overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest garyah99 Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 I have been waiting for Lord of the Rings to come out for a long time. I'm a little leary though, 'cause of some things I've heard about the movie not being true to the books. IE; some elf princess named Arwen having a crush on Aragorn. I dont' recall anyhting like that in LOTR. I'm all for a little poetic licence, I just hope they don't screw up the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Arwen is played but Liv Tyler....hot damn.... One of my friends is already obsessing over Aragorn and Legolas, or rather, the actors playing them. But isn't Aragon just a tad old...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Even if the flick itself suchs. LIV TYLER=ELVIN RANGER That alone will save the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 It's been getting very good reviews from the critics who have been allowed to see it. I guess there was a little "Hollywood-ization" in a few spots, but that's understandable, considering the fact that the movie has to be able to stand on it's own for folks who are totally unfamiliar with Tolkien's works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Must re-read trilogy...forgetting key aspects... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Harry Potter=worst movie I ever had the displeasure of paying to see Lord of the Rings=least interesting books I ever touched That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Originally posted by Nute Gunray Lord of the Rings=least interesting books I ever touched That is all. Then either you're a fool (which we already know you are) or you have never touched any other books (which is highly possible). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 There were hobbit things and dwarves and elves and possibly gnomes (I might have imagined those after spray painting indoors). There was not a single tank, airstrike, or Nazi/Soviet anywhere. Also there were no robots of any kind. I could go on and on listing the stuff it didn't have. All those things are the reason I didn't like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 That still doesn't narrow it down any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 I don't like that whole Middle Earth fantasy thing. That's as narrow as I can get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taarkin Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 I never was a fan of fantasy. It all seems to cliched to me. Plus I don' really like magic-ey things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Conor Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 When did you read the books Garyah? Arwen is certainly in them, although her role has been expanded somewhat. I've read the books 18 times, but I support PJ totally in any changes he makes. I want to see what he can do with the story. I haven't read the Potter series. I'm not in a hurry to experience a pale shadow of Narnia, but I'll probably read them eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 They're not a pale shadow of Narnia. Just read them and you'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 WHOA. I read them there Narnia books like a decade ago and Harry Potter was a sick little joke compared to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Beastie Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 As a writer, I can see what Rowlings was doing with Harry Potter; she was taking all the tripe high-fantasy clichés and putting them all together in one stewpot. In that sense, I can see that it's an interesting result, but I can still "taste" each individual cliché. I haven't had any contact with Tolkien since I was in High School; I'm planning to get the new editions of the books (the old ones I borrowed from the library), but I certainly won't get a chance to read them until next summe, at the earliest. I am confident though that LotR will kick Potter all the way back to England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRAVE Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Im going to see it this Wednesday when it is released in the UK .........is it any good?, its supposed to be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR2000Z Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Harry Potter is pointless. But its still a good movie. That kid who played Harry did a better job in acting than the kid who played Anakin Skywalker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guildenstern Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 For cool Lord of the Rings avatars, click <a href="http://www.boomspeed.com/little_dende/avatars.html">here</a>! Gary, you silly guy! Arwen is certainly a character of Tolkien's: she is the one whom Aragorn marries at the end. However there is a rather small difference between her roles in the book and the movie: in the movie she is a major character, one of the main ones; in the book, she has one line. One line!! So I am upset that they changed it that much, but hopefully Peter Jackson knew what he was doing and her role might add to it. Hopefully... but from what I've seen and read, it sounds like it's going to be a really great movie. They are even expecting it to steal Star Wars' role as the greatest fantasy film ever made. As it should, since it is one of the greatest books ever written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tierce Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 LOTR better be good or i am going to wreak havoc, and some of the people who read the books and saw the movie complained about the fact that some of the characters, mainly Sam (a hobbit), didn't have good character developement....but most of them failed to remind themselves that character developement expanded over the entire 3 books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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