The Greatest Movie Franchises of All Time - Midwest Division Round 2

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by O.city

I'd think it's too low.

But i'm a LoTR honk so i'm admittedly biased.

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.

[O.city]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

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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[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

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]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

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]

Originally Posted by Frazod

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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[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Frazod

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]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

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.