LOTR

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Originally posted by vsp
I've said it before and I'll say it again -- I like the books too much to watch their movie adaptations. Even with ten hours and three movies to play with, I know I'll feel like I'm watching Lynch's "Dune" all over again -- seeing a stream of identifiable scenes and situations from the books, but missing out on the extraordinary (and unfilmable) level of detail that made the books excel in the first place.

Hell, I'm still waiting for an authentic "Fletch" movie. LOTR is several orders of magnitude more complex than that.

YAY Dune!
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.