StocktontoMalone wrote:then I thought. "Shit, Randall Graves was right. They were just fucking walking." pitiful! Hey, looks like you are onto something there.....bravo!
Let's delve deeper:
Breaking Away - They were just fucking riding bicycles. Pitiful!
Top Gun - They were just flying planes. Pitiful!
Fast & The Furious - They were just fucking racing cars. Pitiful!
Speed - They were just fucking riding on a bus. Pitiful!
LOTR is about getting to a place far away while many someones are trying to wax your ass. Now, granted, the movie adaptations were a little hokey. Having read the series at LEAST 20 times in my life the movies were a letdown...but let's get real here....Rowling doesn't have the talent to bring Tolkien a cup of coffee, let alone stack up against him in the writing category...
The *only* point I'm making is that I think Peter Jackson did a poor job of grabbing the attention of a fan that hasn't read the books 20 times. In fact, I've never read them once. I read the hobbit in high school. Thought it was gay, but had to read it to pass the 9th grade. The point is, that a good movie should grab *both* the die hard fan, like yourself, and the passively interested movie goer like myself. From what a friend has told me (who is a die hard Tolken fan), Jackson butchered story lines to adapt it to the movies...and increased the impact certain characters (like Liv Tyler's) so that there would be more ticket draw....
Speed, Breaking Away, Fast and the Furious and Top Gun all have individual flaws that don't belong in this discussion. Your logical point regarding them is cyclical and doesn't do anything for your argument.
Regardless, listen. I can't stand on a very strong soap box in this argument. I gave the LOTR movies 75 minutes to win me over and after wasting said 75 minutes, I resolved that I was not going to give any more. I can't stand on a very good platform and argue a point unless I've invested the 9+ hours into the three movies....which I'm not prepared to do, just to argue against or for the movie. You win.....I'll forfeit and go back to watching Potter movies....
I'll be willing to bet that I'm not the only one, given the fact that Daniel Radcliffe would be accosted by a thousand screaming girls in 100 different countries....At the same time Sean Austin will likely be remembered mostly for his roles in White Water Summer and Goonies.
I will take him to the Dillinger movie next weekend, or any testosterone filled gut flick he wants to see.
