The Lord of the Rings movies were seriously overrated!

[Mr Allen]

Factual fact.

The Lord of the Rings movies were an overrated pile of cack!
I realise I'll get accused of trolling here, but it's my opinion so yeh.

 

[xudo]

Factual fact.

Not a fact, your opinion.

I realise I'll get accused of trolling here

Maybe don't troll then.

but it's my opinion so yeh.

You're entitled to your opinion (I also did not enjoy the films) but maybe come up with a more constructive way of posting them. You haven't left this open for any discussion at all, or added any information about why you don't like the films.

Also not how you spell 'yeah'.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

 

[Momo]

My heart just broke!

 

[Kisa the tea]

 

[AGXStarseed]

Might as well put this here:

 

[CyborgSpaceKitten]

I absolutely agree. I've read the Hobbit, and the Trilogy, and I think that they could have done a way better job of representing the Trilogy. They took liberties that I wasn't okay with and changed very fundamental story elements that I really didn't like

 

[Aeolienne]

The Lord of the Rings: an allegory of the PhD?
by [URL='http://www.maths.strath.ac.uk/~aas05108/']Dave Pritchard[/url]

The story starts with Frodo: a young hobbit, quite bright, a bit dissatisfied with what he's learnt so far and with his mates back home who just seem to want to get jobs and settle down and drink beer. He's also very much in awe of his tutor and mentor, the very senior professor Gandalf, so when Gandalf suggests he take on a short project for him (carrying the Ring to Rivendell), he agrees.

Frodo very quickly encounters the shadowy forces of fear and despair which will haunt the rest of his journey and leave permanent scars on his psyche, but he also makes some useful friends. In particular, he spends an evening down at the pub with Aragorn, who has been wandering the world for many years as Gandalf's postdoc and becomes his adviser when Gandalf isn't around.

After Frodo has completed his first project, Gandalf (along with head of department Elrond) proposes that the work should be extended. He assembles a large research group, including visiting students Gimli and Legolas, the foreign postdoc Boromir, and several of Frodo's own friends from his undergraduate days. Frodo agrees to tackle this larger project, though he has mixed feelings about it. ("'I will take the Ring', he said, 'although I do not know the way.'")

Very rapidly, things go wrong. First, Gandalf disappears and has no more interaction with Frodo until everything is over. (Frodo assumes his supervisor is dead: in fact, he's simply found a more interesting topic and is working on that instead.) At his first international conference in Lorien, Frodo is cross-questioned terrifyingly by Galadriel, and betrayed by Boromir, who is anxious to get the credit for the work himself. Frodo cuts himself off from the rest of his team: from now on, he will only discuss his work with Sam, an old friend who doesn't really understand what it's all about, but in any case is prepared to give Frodo credit for being rather cleverer than he is. Then he sets out towards Mordor.

The last and darkest period of Frodo's journey clearly represents the writing-up stage, as he struggles towards Mount Doom (submission), finding his burden growing heavier and heavier yet more and more a part of himself; more and more terrified of failure; plagued by the figure of Gollum, the student who carried the Ring before him but never wrote up and still hangs around as a burnt-out, jealous shadow; talking less and less even to Sam. When he submits the Ring to the fire, it is in desperate confusion rather than with confidence, and for a while the world seems empty.

Eventually it is over: the Ring is gone, everyone congratulates him, and for a few days he can convince himself that his troubles are over. But there is one more obstacle to overcome: months later, back in the Shire, he must confront the external examiner Saruman, an old enemy of Gandalf, who seeks to humiliate and destroy his rival's protege. With the help of his friends and colleagues, Frodo passes through this ordeal, but discovers at the end that victory has no value left for him. While his friends return to settling down and finding jobs and starting families, Frodo remains in limbo; finally, along with Gandalf, Elrond and many others, he joins the brain drain across the Western ocean to the new land beyond.

 

[VJCJ0628]

I don't know how you state that as a fact?

Honestly, I find few good adventure movies especially trilogies that I can really get into, Yes there were some things that I think could have been better but I find these up there with the top trilogy adventure movies

that's not to say it could not be better, I have not read the books but have heard the movies are not as accurate as they could be if so I could see that argument, However a blanket statement like that with no reason listed I don't understand

 

[AGXStarseed]

Here's Doug Walker's opinions on some of the Lord of the Ring's "dumber" aspects (which I do agree with for the most part, especially the last point).

 

[Tom]

'Factual Fact' ?

I thought the Lord of the Rings film Trilogy, based on the book trilogy was pretty great. The Hobbit Trilogy, where they tried to stretch one moderately sized book into three full length movies was pretty forgettable. That second series was at core just a moneymaking thing.

 

[Metalhead]

I remember seeing The Lord of the G-Strings at a video rental outlet once. For some odd reason, I did not feel compelled to rent that.

 

[Mia]

I quite enjoyed all of the movies. The Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring. Have been a very avid fan of the books most of my life. So much so that I quietly spoke the dialogue just before it happened during the movies. Which my husband was rather amused by. The books are complicated and extensive and the movies have done a quite proficient job of portraying the plots and characters in an appreciable way.

 

[AGXStarseed]

'Factual Fact' ?

I thought the Lord of the Rings film Trilogy, based on the book trilogy was pretty great. The Hobbit Trilogy, where they tried to stretch one moderately sized book into three full length movies was pretty forgettable. That second series was at core just a moneymaking thing.

Imagine if they tried to adapt the "The Silmarillion" into movies.

 

[Kirsty]

I hated that movie too. Was so boring that my gran and I walked out of the cinema.

 

[AGXStarseed]

I hated that movie too. Was so boring that my gran and I walked out of the cinema.

For me, I hated watching these films for two reasons.
1. My Dad made me watch the entire trilogy.
2. The version of the trilogy we watched was the extended version - with "Return of the King" having an extra 49 minutes of footage added to it!
I tell you now, I lost count of the amount of times watching those and thinking to myself "where's the halfway point so I know I haven't got long left to go through".

Now, I've gained an appreciation of how they were made and many of their elements - especially considering this was once a book series thought to be unfilmable (with only two animated adaptations from Ralph Bakshi and Rankin Bass before Peter Jackson tried his hand at it) but still can't honestly say that I like them.

 

[Mr Allen]

I remember seeing The Lord of the G-Strings at a video rental outlet once. For some odd reason, I did not feel compelled to rent that.

That was probably Porn, you did well not to rent it.