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Prodigal 
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Posted: September 19 2005 at 12:00 |
 Nipsey88 wrote:
Jackson has created the single greatest movie trilogy ever. |
I think the same. 
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Posted: September 18 2005 at 18:37 |
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Not sure why, but 'The two towers' did it for me...the visuals were just wonderful and I felt a little let down by TROTK coz it was just a tad 'sappy' for alot of the time, I was just waiting for Frodo and Sam to kiss...the book never seemed that wet..
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Odysseus
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Posted: September 15 2005 at 14:51 |
The Whole Trilogy!
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Posted: September 07 2005 at 16:47 |
I like all of them - by the time the movies had been made, I had read LOTR twice - once as a teen and then a few years back. I think he stuck pretty much to the storyline. But as someone else mentioned, he missed out Tom Bombadil in "Fellowship" electing to place more emphasis on the Nazgul, or so it seemed. But that is a small gripe. Quite simply, the best movie trillogy made ... AND by a fellow countryman 
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Nipsey88
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Posted: September 06 2005 at 17:07 |
Apparently I just met the Feebles.
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Posted: September 06 2005 at 17:00 |
SomethingGood wrote:
die. please. 
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If you really want to scare me ... call The Frighteners!
(ok, I'll shut up now.)
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Posted: September 06 2005 at 16:51 |
die. please.
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Posted: September 06 2005 at 16:32 |
Well, actually I am a arachnophobic, but Shelob (OR whathername) I dident find scary at all... and normally I should run out of the cinema screaming and wild-eyed...
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Posted: September 06 2005 at 16:09 |
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Posted: September 06 2005 at 15:53 |
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Posted: September 06 2005 at 15:39 |
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Posted: September 06 2005 at 15:24 |
Snow Dog wrote:
The Return Of The King!!!!!! |
A Big YAY for Snowy
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Posted: September 06 2005 at 15:22 |
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I grew up on those books, and I found the movies hard to take (I mean,
Liv Tyler?). It's a matter of personal opinon and experience, though. I
prefer the BBC radio series, which was beautifully done (and available on
CD!).
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Posted: September 06 2005 at 15:18 |
Trotsky wrote:
I voted for the purist thing, because that's closest to how I feel, but actually that's too harsh ... I think he it about 70% right ... the movies would have worked if I hadn't been such a big fan of the books ... (and I'll agree that not all the flaws are Jackson's ... any one else find it ridiculous that the "fighting" Uruk-Hai and the Nazgul are just so easily overcome?)
but some things I thought really sucked ... one of which was turning Gimli into comic relief ... I wasn't too thrilled by Aragorn going "let's hunt some Orc" either ...
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I almost agree with you, but the three movies have something that is really enjoyable, I can't explain.. There is the so called "fluency", and the story goes..
Anyway, I prefer the books..
___BYE___
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Posted: September 06 2005 at 05:52 |
Dune,The Hobbit and the LOTR's are the books I read as a kid that totally got me into the fantasy/sci-fi genre and Jackson's movies are the only book to movie adaptation I have ever been really happy with(I even forgive him for leaving out Tom Bombadil),so I chose "the whole trilogy".Hard to pick just one but if I had to I would pick Return of the King.
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Posted: September 05 2005 at 16:52 |
Eetu Pellonpää wrote:
Here come's the social suicide... 
I think Jacson did poor filmatisation of a medicore book. I read it as a kid and liked it. Tried to read it as an adult, but didn't manage to do it. I watched the first film (drunk, it helps), which had some nice element's, like the surroundings, Gandalf cathing the butterfly in the tower and the mines of moria sequence. I watched the second movie and screamed in agony. When Legolas surfed with the shield, I truly wanted to kill myself. I think the movie was total Hollywood crap. I'm sorry, I have no intentions to check the third movie.
For movies, I'm an irritating, elitistic euro trash. Tarkovski and Bunuel for me, thank you.
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Vive le Québec libre!...
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Posted: September 05 2005 at 07:34 |
Here come's the social suicide...
I think Jacson did poor filmatisation of a medicore book. I read it as a kid and liked it. Tried to read it as an adult, but didn't manage to do it. I watched the first film (drunk, it helps), which had some nice element's, like the surroundings, Gandalf cathing the butterfly in the tower and the mines of moria sequence. I watched the second movie and screamed in agony. When Legolas surfed with the shield, I truly wanted to kill myself. I think the movie was total Hollywood crap. I'm sorry, I have no intentions to check the third movie.
For movies, I'm an irritating, elitistic euro trash. Tarkovski and Bunuel for me, thank you.
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Wolf Spider
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Posted: September 05 2005 at 04:44 |
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The whole trilogy is breath taking
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Posted: September 05 2005 at 03:02 |
I voted for the purist thing, because that's closest to how I feel, but actually that's too harsh ... I think he it about 70% right ... the movies would have worked if I hadn't been such a big fan of the books ... (and I'll agree that not all the flaws are Jackson's ... any one else find it ridiculous that the "fighting" Uruk-Hai and the Nazgul are just so easily overcome?)
but some things I thought really sucked ... one of which was turning Gimli into comic relief ... I wasn't too thrilled by Aragorn going "let's hunt some Orc" either ...
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Posted: September 04 2005 at 21:33 |
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