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Sofa King 04-18-2019 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by DaFace (Post 14212419)
I think this is my favorite division. Lots of interesting matchups. I had to go with Batman, LotR, Rocky, and Star Trek.

I think The Godfather may pull the upset here, but again, this is a contest about franchises, and Star Trek's dozen or so films holds up for me.
This is how i feel other than I feel like Terminator made a bigger impact, spawned one of the most popular action stars of all time and even propelled him to a high political position.

Batman's had way to many shitty movies to beat Terminator.

oldman 04-18-2019 10:24 AM
Batman
Who cares?
Rocky - "Adrian ----Aaaa--dri-aannnn"
Godfather- It's an offer you can't refuse.

O.city 04-18-2019 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 14212490)
Do you penalize the LoTR franchise for the plodding, excruciating attempts at turning the Hobbit, a pretty short book, into three movies?

If you were committed to it, you could get through that book in less time than it took to get through the movies.
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suzzer99 04-18-2019 10:39 AM
Other than Rocky a majority of you are a bunch of reeruns.

Rain Man 04-18-2019 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 14212490)
Do you penalize the LoTR franchise for the plodding, excruciating attempts at turning the Hobbit, a pretty short book, into three movies?

If you were committed to it, you could get through that book in less time than it took to get through the movies.
I penalize it for that.

Frazod 04-18-2019 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 14212490)
Do you penalize the LoTR franchise for the plodding, excruciating attempts at turning the Hobbit, a pretty short book, into three movies?

If you were committed to it, you could get through that book in less time than it took to get through the movies.
Personally I don't even count The Hobbit - I think I watched about a third of the first one and lost interest. Never saw the last two.

The first three movies are mostly amazing. Two glaring annoyances were the lame ass walking trees and Gollum, who was only a step below Jar Jar Binks on the annoying scale.

O.city 04-18-2019 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Frazod (Post 14213352)
Personally I don't even count The Hobbit - I think I watched about a third of the first one and lost interest. Never saw the last two.

The first three movies are mostly amazing. Two glaring annoyances were the lame ass walking trees and Gollum, who was only a step below Jar Jar Binks on the annoying scale.
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ThaVirus 04-18-2019 03:59 PM
This round is killer..

Tough choices.

DJ's left nut 04-18-2019 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Frazod (Post 14213352)
Personally I don't even count The Hobbit - I think I watched about a third of the first one and lost interest. Never saw the last two.

The first three movies are mostly amazing. Two glaring annoyances were the lame ass walking trees and Gollum, who was only a step below Jar Jar Binks on the annoying scale.
The trees ended up kinda shitty in the movies but man, the Ents were just !@#$ing outstanding in the books.

As a general guideline I'd tell people to watch the movies instead of the books if you could only do one for the LOTR series. The movies do so much to bring some of the key battles to life; they're really stellar. It's one of the few instance that I think you get a little more from the movies than the books.

But the elves and the ents are much more interesting characters in the books than the movies. And if my memory serves the books lean into Gandalf a lot more heavily than they do Aragorn or even Frodo. But it's been a bit so I can't swear that's actually an accurate memory.

Frazod 04-18-2019 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 14213459)
The trees ended up kinda shitty in the movies but man, the Ents were just !@#$ing outstanding in the books.

As a general guideline I'd tell people to watch the movies instead of the books if you could only do one for the LOTR series. The movies do so much to bring some of the key battles to life; they're really stellar. It's one of the few instance that I think you get a little more from the movies than the books.

But the elves and the ents are much more interesting characters in the books than the movies. And if my memory serves the books lean into Gandalf a lot more heavily than they do Aragorn or even Frodo. But it's been a bit so I can't swear that's actually an accurate memory.
Yeah, I never read the books. I probably should one of these days.

And I've heard that the ents were much cooler in the books. But they were definitely the weak link in the movies. Compared to how well they did with everything else, by comparison the ents looked like tall high school parade floats.

DaFace 04-19-2019 10:13 AM
All of these are lopsided enough that I'm going to go ahead and close them and move on. I'm impatient. :)


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