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Théoden looks completely wrong. But you can see the lower half of an Ent!
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great. more shit masquerading as a work by JRR Tolkien. when is Aragorn going to have fucking Narsil reforged? when is peter jackson going to fix his illiteracy so that he can read The Lord of the Rings? it would be nice if he actually knew what the fuck was going on in the series.
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: Théoden looks completely wrong.
that must have been Théoden's butler, or something. and since when was �owyn unattractive? since when did Eomer look like a dirty hippy? and since when did modern "blockbuster" movies have really fakey 3d effects? they really should have gotten Blizzard to do the FX. Gollum looks worse than the characters in the Diablo II cutscenes. it's a shame that Peter Jackson wasn't the one to die at a celebrity basketball game instead of Ted Demme. Ted Demme at least made good movies.
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Having barely read any of the books, I actually like the Lord of the Rings movies. The trailer looks great, it will make for another fine movie right next to the first.
EdipisReks--Jackson's trying to adapt a huge trilogy, and he can't please everyone. Go and make a Lord of the Rings movie yourself if you're not happy. You know you'll go see TTT anyway. And the Return of the King.
quote:Originally posted by Veers: Having barely read any of the books, I actually like the Lord of the Rings movies. The trailer looks great, it will make for another fine movie right next to the first.
EdipisReks--Jackson's trying to adapt a huge trilogy, and he can't please everyone. Go and make a Lord of the Rings movie yourself if you're not happy. You know you'll go see TTT anyway. And the Return of the King.
the movies should never have been made. i would never have soiled the books by doing so. i was dragged to see the first piece of shit, and i will not be seeing the second and third. unless the girl i like is going. in which case i will go with her. but only so that i get to open the door for her. and share popcorn with her. hopefully at one of those theaters where the armrests lift *rawwwr*.
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by the way, Veers, you should read the series. i read it for the first time in the second grade, and i've read them at least a dozen times since then. great, great, great stuff. only matched by John Oliver Rigney jr's (pseudonym Robert Jordan) The Wheel of Time, imo.
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I really liked the first movie. Yes, the book is better, and yes, there are some changes, but as a movie, it's great. I think Jackson did a pretty good job... It's near impossible to make a movie (or series of movies) that follows the book from A to Z. For all the background stories to work out on screen, you'll have to explain half the Silmarillion too, which is even harder. And you really can't show the Elves the way they're supposed to look like.
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that's exactly why the movies should never have been made in the first place. it's impossible to do it right, so it shouldn't be done at all.
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thats one of the dumbest things ive ever heard.
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let me guess. you do a lot of things that end up failing, right? sometimes the old sayings are the ones to follow. "if you can't do it right, don't do it at all" is one of those old sayings. too bad peter jackson hadn't heard that one. too bad peter jackson didn't care about ruining one of the best pieces of fiction of the 20th century.
The Lord of the Rings is a sacred institution to me. if the movies can't do it justice then i don't think they should be made. no movies will ever do the books justice (or, i should say, no movies that would ever be made will). therefore, no LoTR movies should ever be made.
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Oh, please. Jackson hasn't touched the bloody books; pick them up and read them whenever you damn well please! Jackson's done a pretty decent job overall of adaptation; if you want to see a piece of crap adaptation, go rent Bakshi's animated version (don't even START about the Return of the King abomination shot for TV in the 80s). If you're expecting perfection, then you obviously can't be going to any movies. Or watching any TV. Which makes me wonder why you're on this forum.
Before you ask: yes, I have read the books. I was assigned them in high school 25 years ago. Sorry to burst your bubble, but, good as they are, they are not perfect holy writ, cast in gold tablets by the hand of God. Welcome to the real world.
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I started on the first book and got through a few chapters when the movie came out. I went to see it and then just stopped reading the actual book. I don't know why, maybe it was I had other things on my mind. I hope to read them before RotK comes out, but who knows?
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