[OT] A dark day for Kai Lord....

[Kai Lord]

Kai Lord, you must be really broken up over this. It's in two forums.

It's your own fault for not reading the books.

The reason its in two forums was because a couple of people asked what the spoiler was so I made the second post on the other forum and posted the link.

And yes, I am pretty bummed about it.

 

[tleilaxu]

Well Kai Lord, like i said; You don't know if that happens in the movie or not. And I would go further to say that being surprised while reading the book is better than being surprised watching the movie.

There is plenty of stuff that happens at the end of LotR that won't be in the film. That's all I'm saying. PLENTY. some would say the BEST part of the books won't be in the movie. That's all I'm saying. For real this time.

 

[jdavis]

Never read Tolken...First shame on you, That's your first problem, read the books, No movie will ever do true justice for any book, they can't, for the LOTR movies to have covered the books properly they would of needed to be 4 or 5 hours long each, at least. I try to read LOTR at least once a year (I'm over 20 times now).

The good news is that really wasn't a spoiler, it's sort of like saying that at the end of Return of the Jedi the Ewoks danced. Your enjoyment will be no way dimmed by that at all, matter of fact as many times as I have read the book I actually had forgotten about that. It's sort of a trivial thing and it might not even end up in the movie. ANd here I thought somebody had dropped something big like the........well you've got a good year to go before Return of the King, good luck avoiding spoilers.

 

[tleilaxu]

at the end of LOTR Saruman, Gandalf, Radagast and the Ewoks all dance

 

[Kai Lord]

Never read Tolken...First shame on you, That's your first problem,

I didn't say I never read Tolkien. I said I never read the LOTR. When I was a kid I read The Hobbit, which I found entertaining but a but quaint. I never got around to reading anything else.

 

[Mulkhoran]

ANd here I thought somebody had dropped something big like the..........well you've got a good year to go before Return of the King, good luck avoiding spoilers.

*looks around*

"......no living man am I.........."

 

[tleilaxu]

tleilaxu looks into the future and sees this thread turning into a bunch of people trying to convince you to read LotR until you break down and swear to at the soonest possible convenience...

 

[Kai Lord]

tleilaxu looks into the future and sees this thread turning into a bunch of people trying to convince you to read LotR until you break down and swear to at the soonest possible convenience...

I was planning on reading them after I see all the movies.

 

[Dr Midnight]

No movie will ever do true justice for any book, they can't...

I'd really like for you to explain what you mean by this before I attempt to convince you that you're wrong.

 

[jdavis]

Books are several hundred pages long, you just can't fit everything into a movie. Fellowship of the Rings is a good example. They literally cut out hundreds of pages of story, they changed the story up, they changed characters around and eliminated at least a dozen of characters, and that was just the first book. Yes the movie was wonderful, it was just brilliant but it wasn't a complete telling, it was a stylized version. They tried to stay as true to the book as possible but it isn't the 100% story it's a edited version. Another one? try Dune, the movie or the mini-series, neither were 100% on the money, matter of fact both drifted pretty far off the books path. Both were good for their own reasons but neither matched the book.

Books and movies are two different mediums, sometimes movies based on books are actually better than the book was, but there will always be differences.