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| Alex | Apr 21 2007, 04:19 PM Post #1 |
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The question is very simple - which captures you imagination moreso - the books or films? Do you prefer to let the text to create an epic picture in your imagination, or do you prefer to hear and see the action of The Lord of the Rings movies? In my opinion, I prefer the books. Whilst the films are amongst the greatest films ever produced, I love picking up a book, getting deeply into it, and allowing it to paint pictures with words. Its just fantastic that someone has the ability to pick up a pen and paper, and write down words from their own imagination to create something so epic it can capture the minds of millions of people worldwide. |
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| HIC | Apr 24 2007, 10:12 PM Post #2 |
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I prefer the films, because it's easyer (is that a word?) to follow the story and it's brilliantly done. However I still love to sit down with a lotr book and read. |
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| Mordus | Apr 24 2007, 11:53 PM Post #3 |
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I think they complement each other brilliantly. Either wouldn't be the same without the other. |
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| Alex | Apr 25 2007, 07:36 PM Post #4 |
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Easier is a word. @ Mordus, I agre
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| Deadly Wisper | Apr 25 2007, 09:54 PM Post #5 |
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Yep, I agree, I think the films are horribly underrated. |
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| Alex | Apr 25 2007, 09:57 PM Post #6 |
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I was reading a list of the Greatest Films of the 21st Century (a little early, I think) on MSN. For some reason, only the FoTR was included - I know its a great film and laid down a solid foundation for the other two films, but in terms of action and excitement, surely The Two Towers wins it. |
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| Ariakas | Apr 25 2007, 10:01 PM Post #7 |
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That's what I've been saying ALL the time. FOTR is a much better movie than TTT and ROTK! |
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| Alex | Apr 25 2007, 10:03 PM Post #8 |
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Battle of Helm's Deep = 42 minutes on the extended edition. 42 minutes of TTT > 300 minutes of FoTR. IMO. |
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| Mordus | Apr 25 2007, 10:03 PM Post #9 |
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From a film critics point of view perhaps, but a fan revels in the action and expansiveness of the latter ones B) |
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| Ariakas | Apr 25 2007, 10:13 PM Post #10 |
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What made FOTR better than TTT? Legolas did not slide down on a stupid *cough*snowboard*cough* Uruk-shield, and had the role he should have instead of delivering stupid lines. FOTR managed to actually make me cry (almost twice). TTT was not even close to it. FOTR managed to make me laugh out of amusement, and because I thought the scene at the time was just adorable. TTT managed to make me laugh because of Hollywood-humour and that kind of ugly stuff. And that is not a laugh I enjoy. The whole Helm's Deep battle is viewed as action-fulled by many, and that's why they consider it cool. What I liked about the Helm's Deep-battle in the book when I was a kid was that I had the feeling they would not make it. But in the film it's far from as dark as it could be (mostly because of the elves). And the whole killing game between Legolas and Gimli irritates me a lot. IMO the whole thing about that contest is competely misunderstood. Don't get me wrong, I did like the humour very often during SOME battles. I liked the humour in the Warg-battle, because that was supposed to be a short and violent battle, but not an epic one. I don't care what people say, the Battle for Helm's Deep was beautifull, but it turned out bad because of Gimli and Legolas (I also did not like the fact that the elves appeared, but you guys are probably going to laugh off my arguments there without listening much). |
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| Mordus | Apr 25 2007, 10:35 PM Post #11 |
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But the humour was there in the book as well. Can't blame them for staying true to it. |
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| Ariakas | Apr 25 2007, 10:40 PM Post #12 |
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Gimli standing on top of the wall, counting aloud so his voice can be heared all over the battlefield "Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen...". The whole audience laughed. That was not in the book. They were inspired by the game they played in the book, but they took certain creativity-freedoms from it. |
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| Mordus | Apr 25 2007, 10:44 PM Post #13 |
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Perhaps but concidering the drearyness of TTT and RTK I think it was very tactful of them to balance it out with humour. |
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| Ariakas | Apr 25 2007, 11:11 PM Post #14 |
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It's the wrong kind of humour IMO. |
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| Mordus | Apr 25 2007, 11:14 PM Post #15 |
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Again, perhaps, but what can you expect of hollywood. |
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| Ariakas | Apr 25 2007, 11:19 PM Post #16 |
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Did you see humour in Troy? Did you see humour in 300 or King Arthur? (I'm not off-topic, this has relevance to the current subject of discussion) |
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| Mordus | Apr 25 2007, 11:30 PM Post #17 |
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Well, yes
I laughed when Hector got pwned. I laughed when i saw all the men walking around in lointcloths I laughed at Arthur's shitty acting. Call me a monster if you want :rolleyes: |
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| Deadly Wisper | Apr 26 2007, 07:39 AM Post #18 |
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Seeing 300 hundred soon, but Troy wasn't that good a film, and King Arthur was just plain bad. |
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| Ariakas | Apr 26 2007, 11:54 AM Post #19 |
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Whether they were good movies or not does not matter. They were epic movies without humour. You don't need to "balance" it out as they did when Legolas hunted down an oliphaunt all on his own and then the comment "That still only counts as one". The Battle for Pelennor Fields disappointed except for a few parts. The first film captures my idea of Middle-Earth, and parts of the other two does it. But I like the book the most. |
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| Gorfang | Apr 26 2007, 03:00 PM Post #20 |
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They did have humour. Perhaps you didn't find the humour, but it was there. Look at 300, after that Persian captain claims that their arrows will blot out the sun and the Spartan says they will fight in the shade. When those arrows do arrive and they are hiding beneath their shields they laugh and joke about fighting in the shade. That made me laugh, because its ironic. Ok its an obvious irony, but still. Plus the large numbers of one liners they put in. Troy had a few one liners, and I laughed at King Arthur because so many sections were absolutely lame. I agree with you on the Legolas moments, but I hate the film's portrayal of him anyway. Especially his constantly stating the bloody obvious. |
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