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CrazyDiamond 
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Posted: September 03 2005 at 12:35 |
I was re-watching the trilogy and I noticed that Jackson really did a good job, altough he obscured some "important" characters, figures and objects (where is Tom Bombadil, only to name one !?!?!?!). But it's impossible to put such a big book in a movie, without doing a selection of the most important episodes and parts of the book. He did a good job.
Anyway, what do you think?
What's your favourite chapter? (I go for "The fellowship of the ring", my favourite! )
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CrazyDiamond
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Posted: September 03 2005 at 12:38 |
oops, I did a mistake in making the poll ! 
Anyway, write down your favourite! Excuse me.
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Posted: September 03 2005 at 12:47 |
The movies are all great IMO. But generally I prefer the Silmarillion. I'd love to see that as a movie. Maybe with Blind Guardian and Marillion providing the music?
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CrazyDiamond
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Posted: September 03 2005 at 12:55 |
Oh yes, who can make the best music for a movie called Silmarillion better than Marillion?
Anyway, The Silmarillion is an epic journey through fantasy litterature! 
Do you know that they're making a movie based on The Hobbit?
Hope to see it soon
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Borealis
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Posted: September 03 2005 at 23:27 |
I do not like those movie, seriously, unless I'm stoned... then they are great...
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Posted: September 04 2005 at 02:48 |
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Jackson has created the single greatest movie trilogy ever. Doubters beware!
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Damen
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Posted: September 04 2005 at 03:39 |
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All of em, gotta love them, they follow the books just about verbatim
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SomethingGood
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Posted: September 04 2005 at 05:34 |
 Nipsey88 wrote:
Jackson has created the single greatest movie trilogy ever. Doubters beware!
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No chance! what about Back to the Future? Indiana Jones? Die Hard? Star Wars?
I've always thought the LOTR films were overatted, there's just too
much boring filler material in them. Jackson's older films were better
by a mile! 
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Posted: September 04 2005 at 05:39 |
The Return Of The King!!!!!! 
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 04 2005 at 05:39 |
SomethingGood wrote:
Jackson's older films were better by a mile! |
Now that's Bad Taste!
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Posted: September 04 2005 at 18:38 |
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I really enjoyed them all, but The Fellowship of the Ring is my favourite. It follows the book the best.
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Posted: September 04 2005 at 19:03 |
The Fellowship of the Ring: 5/5 (more mystical, earthly and humble. My favorite.)
The Two Towers: 4.5/5 (a great continuation...but a middle chapter, or a bridge between the two greater chapters, IMO)
The Return of the King: 5/5 (the most emotional and epic, with supurb acting and the most emotional ending of any movie i've ever seen)
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Posted: September 04 2005 at 21:33 |
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Fellowship of the Ring
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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 05 2005 at 04:44 |
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The whole trilogy is breath taking
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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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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 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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CrazyDiamond
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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..
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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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