durdencommatyler wrote:Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I don't like them at all. However I was able to make my way thru them which is more than I can say about the books.
God, those books are a chore, huh? Man!
I quit about a third of the way thru the first one. One of the very, very few books I've actually not been able to finish. Just unbearable.
I finished them. But I wouldn't recommend it.
I plan on ignoring them for the rest of my life. I gave my copies of them to my oldest Weaseling. She was curious about them and talked about buying them to read. Ten minutes later, she had them in her hands with the message "good luck."
I'm glad I read them. But I can't imagine a time when I'll ever revisit them. In fact, we just gave away our copy of the trilogy the other day. I'd forgotten that.
The books are a slog. Great fodder for better storytellers though. While there was never technically really a Middle Earth EU until the movies, almost everything in the genre owes something to the world building
For sure. Which is a large part of why I still talk about those books with respect even though I don't especially care for them.
The films are fuckin awesome though. Yet there's a lot of people think about them the way other people think about the books.
I just can't knock the films really. They're brilliant.
It's funny cos two towers is the one I have trouble with yet it's most people's favourite.
But as we always say, it does benefit from the extended edition filling out other aspects. The cinematic cut gets to be pure battle fatigue too quickly. That's not what LOTR was about but it takes centre stage in TT. Still great though.
Joey we never talked about what you think about Rian Johnsons comments about 8. And it being traditionally familial and about where Luke's goin from here.
dimejinky99 wrote:Joey we never talked about what you think about Rian Johnsons comments about 8. And it being traditionally familial and about where Luke's goin from here.
Enlighten me
I've been very pleased by all of the comments I've seen so far. Luke should be the emotional entry-way into the film, I think. Even as a kid I always expected Luke went on to become an Obi-Wan type figure. I'm very much looking forward to seeing that. Especially since it sounds like those things will be used to explore the new characters, not at the expense of the new characters. Very cool.
durdencommatyler wrote:I genuinely enjoy the first two.
Return of the King is overlong, maybe, but there are so many powerful moments in that movie.
I still, to do this, day cry during the speech before the Rohan charge, and the bit at the end when everyone bows to the halflings.
I wish I had your experience, my friend. I really do. But I dislike almost everything about that movie. The dialogue is terrible. The action beats are confusing. It's overlong yet still feels sloppy and rushed. The VFX are terrible. I only finished it because I was pot committed at that point. I wanted to have your feelings, your reaction. But the thing just felt lifeless to me. Especially after the first two films.
dimejinky99 wrote:Joey we never talked about what you think about Rian Johnsons comments about 8. And it being traditionally familial and about where Luke's goin from here.
Enlighten me
I've been very pleased by all of the comments I've seen so far. Luke should be the emotional entry-way into the film, I think. Even as a kid I always expected Luke went on to become an Obi-Wan type figure. I'm very much looking forward to seeing that. Especially since it sounds like those things will be used to explore the new characters, not at the expense of the new characters. Very cool.
Yeah he has to be the crux and focis occur this film. Great to hear he will be.
durdencommatyler wrote:I genuinely enjoy the first two.
Return of the King is overlong, maybe, but there are so many powerful moments in that movie.
I still, to do this, day cry during the speech before the Rohan charge, and the bit at the end when everyone bows to the halflings.
The bit when frodo wakes up and Gandalfs there and sam comes in gets me every time. And the scene with the crowd kneeling to the hobbits. And when Arwen appears from behind the banner at his coronation. And when Gandalf tells frodo it's time to leave and the hobbits freak out.
All that stuff.
It's funny. Star Wars has no big feels moments like those for me. Top of my head anyways.
From one of the YA road to force awakens books
'"When I was a kid, I liked to make up stories about Captain Ræh—about who she was and what planet she might have come from."
―Rey
durdencommatyler wrote:Excalibur is better than anything in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Also, I'm not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Fellowship is a great introduction into the world and well paced. Two Tower is really cool, if overlong, but has some of the best character moments in the entire trilogy and is probably still underrated. The last one is a disaster.
VinylGuy wrote:I want to see TFA again. Its been a while...but first its going to be ROTJ.
Good call.
Was only thinking last night. Hamill really plays Luke well. Whiney teenager in a new hope. Arrogant and full of himself in Empire. Knowing and wise in Jedi.
He says he always meant it to play that way. I don't believe him but he nailed it either way.
