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 Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:23 pm
On a scale from one to ten, how well do you think Peter Jackson did portraying Tolkien's essence? (One being the worst, ten being the best)
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:08 am
Well.... I guess I'd give him about a 7. I'm just starting to reread the books, and I'm finally seeing how much they actually left out. But I suppose they had to or the movies would be like 32 hours long sweatdrop .
And I wish they included a liiiittle more elvish. But I suppose you can't have everything. (Actually, most of the background songs were sung in Sindarin (If I remember correctly))
What about you?
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:41 am
I'd give him an 8. He got away from the books a lot but the movies were still very entertaining.
The lack of Tom Bombadil saddened me though.
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:41 pm
Yeah.. Tom was pretty cool.
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:26 pm
Yes, I gave him a 7. Great movies, just...well, I don't know.
Scouring of the Shire!! evil
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:20 pm
Well, for now I'm rereading the books because its been so long.
Omg, I can't believe it! I have absolutely NO idea what the scouring of the shire is! (For some reason, my brain decided to die on me the last few chapters of RoTK.
Yeah, the movies WERE pretty good.... (But I still get less bored with the books)
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:49 pm
Arendilon Omg, I can't believe it! I have absolutely NO idea what the scouring of the shire is! (For some reason, my brain decided to die on me the last few chapters of RoTK. You don't know about the Scouring of the Shire?! You must learn, quickly~
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:04 pm
I know! stressed stressed stressed stressed What happened to me?! gonk
I'll read it in a few days (And by days, I mean minutes.)
I think I drank too much cofee eek . And ate too much sugar eek . And swallowed too many cafiene pills eek . Hehe, joking...
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:52 pm
I pretty much agree with what's been said. PJ did a fairly decent job on the movies, though there was so much left out. :/ I too was upset that the scouring of the Shire never happened. I was also upset about the lack of Merry and Pipin's time with the Ents. We barely saw any of it! Overall though, it was a really awesome job on interpreting and adapting the story.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:50 am
One thing that really bugged me in the movies (well, one of many) was Saruman's speech to his supporters. He spoke of the Age of the Orc and all that. But in the books what Saruman wanted was an Age of Man, ruled by the istari. All in all the movies glorified humans way too much. And although I deeply enjoyed seeing a mistrustful, bitter, jealous and possessive Elrond (Hugo Weaving rocks!) the whole Arwen situation was a bit ridiculous an add-on - instead of all that extra romance screentime they could have included some stuff from the books.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:57 pm
True, True... but I did kinda' dig all the Elvish said in the romantic scenes.
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:50 am
And I kinda dig Hugo Weaving as Elrond... so it could have been worse. razz
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:03 pm
7.5 7.6
They were great movies, and most people* would enjoy watching them. They did an OK job of adapting the books to film, but they left out a lot of the best stuff, like for example Tom Bombadil, or the Scouring of the Shire. Also they added in a lot of strange things, and they made Gimli act like Legolas and they made Legolas act like an airhead.
*Most people. There was this one girl. So this guy comes into class and says that he and some people watched The Lord of the Rings that weekend. And she pulls this face and says "Why do you watch that stuff?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:03 pm
@ Imladviel: Haha, agent smith!
@La-la-whatever-ad-a: I would have to agree, and I think Tom* was pretty cool too... I wish he could have been in the movie
WOOT for BEARS!!!
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:26 pm
La-la-dida-la-la 7.5 7.6 They were great movies, and most people* would enjoy watching them. They did an OK job of adapting the books to film, but they left out a lot of the best stuff, like for example Tom Bombadil, or the Scouring of the Shire. Also they added in a lot of strange things, and they made Gimli act like Legolas and they made Legolas act like an airhead. *Most people. There was this one girl. So this guy comes into class and says that he and some people watched The Lord of the Rings that weekend. And she pulls this face and says "Why do you watch that stuff?"
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