[OT] LotR

[JacktheRabbit]

Roper is a twat bag and the new boy who has to prove he is a serious movie critic by doing something like this.

Hard to imagine some folks loathed LotR. Richard Roeper, of "Ebert and Roper" panned it, thumbs down all the way. He starts out saying "it's an epic in every sense of the word", but it progresses into a real slamfest from there. If you're interested in hearing a radically different opinion from ours, you can hear his review here, and judge its merits for yourself.

"Frodo the hobbit ain't Lawrence of Arabia!" says he.

 

[Wormwood]

I believe LOTR is one of -if not the best- films I've ever seen. Certainly the best book adaptation to screen ever.

While I'll definitely rank LotR as one of the best fantasy films of all time, I think that Jurassic Park, Hunt for Red October or Fight Club were better book-to-screen adaptations.

Heck, you may want to throw in Gone With the Wind...

 

[Welverin]

Otherwise, all I've found is that Men go "beyond the world," and will participate in the making of the Second Music after the end of the world, something, it seems, even the Elves will not participate in.

I finally got around to doing some looking and all I really found was at the end of chapter 1 of the Quenta Silmarillion (last four paragraphs), what I think you allude to in the above quote. It does state that death was Illuvatar's gift to men and that they do not simply die as Dragongirl stated. As for the rest, I have no idea where I got that from.

 

[Storm Raven]

While I'll definitely rank LotR as one of the best fantasy films of all time, I think that Jurassic Park, Hunt for Red October or Fight Club were better book-to-screen adaptations.

Heck, you may want to throw in Gone With the Wind...

All of those films were subpar compared to Fellowship of the Ring, especially the overblown, highly overrated piece of self-indulgent boredom that is Gone With the Wind.

 

[KnowTheToe]

All of those films were subpar compared to Fellowship of the Ring, especially the overblown, highly overrated piece of self-indulgent boredom that is Gone With the Wind.

I would agree with an exception of Gone with the Wind. You have to remember that it was made in a different age and was one of the first attempts at such a large feature. It may or may not be a better adaptation, but it is not a piece of crap.

The other movies mentioed above had been done before, not neccessarily the exact story, but the concept. The dialog, scenery and acting are all in similar styles to many movies of the same styles. LotR, was really the first of its type to break the barrier to cross into main stream. Its attention to detail was magnificant. If you get a chance to watch some of the interviews on the extended DVD you will see.

Jackson and the artist teams created different types of clothes, arcitecture, weapons, etc for each culture. I was even better watching the movie and noticing these subtle details.

 

[Storm Raven]

I would agree with an exception of Gone with the Wind. You have to remember that it was made in a different age and was one of the first attempts at such a large feature. It may or may not be a better adaptation, but it is not a piece of crap.

Well, given that a lot of my disagreement on the Gone With the Wind issue stems from the fact that I found the book itself to be a self-indulgent piece of over the top melodramatic tripe. When you convert crap to the big screen, you get crap no matter how you cut it.