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12-21-2003, 02:52 PM | #16 | |
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12-25-2003, 01:21 AM | #17 |
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Wait a minute...I haven't seen the movie yet but the big complaint about it is that it's long??? WTF people? When you jump in a swimming pool do you complain that it's wet? You go to a movie that you know is longer than most double features and what? You're surprised by its length? People are frigin' weird...
Me? I like a long movie. Probably why I own as many anime series as movies. Length adds a lot of character development, as well as a sense of familiarity. Though, I think it should be a given that a lot of the scenes simply aren't necessary.
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12-25-2003, 02:36 AM | #18 | |
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Lynch mangled it, but you have to admit the damn thing couldn't have been done right in less than 10 - 11 hours. So the stupid Sci Fi did it in a mini-series and fucked it up again! Grrrrrrrrrr. The later books would make righteous movies. |
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12-25-2003, 08:32 AM | #19 |
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I really like David Lynch's Dune ... with this caveat. I like it as a David Lynch film, but NOT as an adaptation of Dune.
But I think it was way better than the SciFi Channel's miniseries of suck.
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07-05-2004, 05:30 PM | #20 |
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I have previously ranted on my dislike of the books, but was told by several people that the movies were a different experience, and that I should watch them just for the special effects, etc.
Seems as though they were wrong. I tried to watch LOTR:FOTR last night. I became bored and fell asleep, apparently at a fairly exciting bit (that big battle in the castle and 2/3 of the way through). I did like the way that they handled the ringwraiths, though. Cool. Almost could feel the evil oozing off them.
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07-10-2004, 01:19 AM | #21 |
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I am forging ahead, despite my rising gorge, and increasing boredom.
Finished LOTR: TTO last night. Might not proceed with LOTR: ROTK until late Sunday or early next week. One of my coworkers reviewed it by saying "I just had to look away. There was just too much killin'!" Johnson is not one to be put off by too much killin' usually, so I'm mildly intrigued. As with FOTR, there was one bit that stood out as being cool ... you know when Isengard is being set upon by the ents, and they let the dam go, and there's that one ent that had burst into open flame and he runs up to the rushing waters and sticks his head in? That was cool. Unfortunately, given that the movie is about three hours long, 3 seconds of really cool doesn't cut it.
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07-10-2004, 01:43 AM | #22 |
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I never found the movie length to be a problem. I really liked the book series and I liked the movies fairly accurate interpretation of it. Some liberties were taken (especially in the second one) but overall the length of the movie was justified by the amount of material in the books. Did any one read the books but hate the movies? I find it hard to hate a movie for its length, although I have read some books that definitely needed serious trims for the movies (*cough, cough* Tom Clancy *cough, cough*).
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07-10-2004, 09:43 AM | #23 |
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I hated the books too.
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07-12-2004, 09:13 AM | #24 |
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I like all three movies and I'm a sucker for epic pre-modern weapon battles, especially when there's clever battle tactics or nicely choreographed weapon-play used. (Troy had some NICE ones). I also like the story itself. I plan on taking a Saturday and watching all three movies at once, but not in the theater, oh no. Marathon will happen in the comfort of my living room, with a heapin' pile of chinese food, maybe a rack of ribs in the oven and some cornbread, and enough generic fruit punch soda to swim in. Oh yes, with a pause button and my own private bathroom.
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07-12-2004, 10:30 AM | #25 |
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When RoTK cam out in theaters, ten of us went to New Orleans and did all three in one day.
We left the house at ten in the morning and came back at two AM. FoTR: extended version one hour intemission TT: extended version one hour intermission, free pizza RoTK lite We got dollar refills on the large drinks, dollar hotdogs, pass on a lanyard and a small statue with a couple of film cels in it. All that for the bargain price of 25 USD.
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07-12-2004, 10:50 AM | #26 |
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All that for the bargain price of 25 USD.
That would have cost me my sanity. How do you not develop deep vein thrombosis and suffer a stroke from sitting that long? What, out of curiosity, encouraged you to sit for that long to watch that many hours of movie in a row? |
07-12-2004, 11:00 AM | #27 | |
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2) Sitting a long time, in the dark, doesn't bother me, I'm in IT, 3) I'd waited the above-mentioned quite a long time for the movies to come out, 4) I enjoyed the movies with their changes, mistakes and all, 5) Some movies you have to see in the theater, 6) I'm a masochist.
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07-12-2004, 11:05 AM | #28 |
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I bought the dvd of RoTK, left it on the kitchen counter for 2 days planning on watching it asap. jinx didnt want to watch it when i did, so i waited.....now my kids have hijacked it, and 3 weeks later, it's still missing. damn kids.
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07-12-2004, 11:23 AM | #29 | |
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07-12-2004, 12:35 PM | #30 | |
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