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Caoilin  Title: Instigator
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Registered: 2001-11-20 00:03:45
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i think, of all the books i've read and then seen the movie for, two towers pissed me off the most. i still don't understand the decision to change faromir so greatly. complete 180 on his personality and what he did when he found out about the ring for NO reason. i don't get it and it really pissed me off.
i also think the harry potter movies after chamber of secrets progressively got worse (mostly because the books got longer and they kept changing directors.) to the point of being unwatchably bad to me.
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uglydwarf  Posts: 129
Registered: 2005-2-4 08:37:07
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sounds like someone has been listening to much to left wing college literature teachers. read the book. decide for yourself. 
DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Terminius_Est posted:
No, it's not at all like the book. They kept the names and the aliens and the war but that's all.
My understanding is the book is about totalitarian government and youth indoctrination (primarily) and is a social-political commentary on such.
The movie barely touches on that, and it's about young, good looking people, slaying monsters.
Should have just called it 'Bugs' or something 
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Caoilin posted:
i think, of all the books i've read and then seen the movie for, two towers pissed me off the most. i still don't understand the decision to change faromir so greatly. complete 180 on his personality and what he did when he found out about the ring for NO reason. i don't get it and it really pissed me off.
i also think the harry potter movies after chamber of secrets progressively got worse (mostly because the books got longer and they kept changing directors.) to the point of being unwatchably bad to me.
There were lots of things in LotR that should and could have been done better...but none of them are BAD movies. And they would have had to have been 5 hours long to have been good adaptations of the books...so I don't think it's fair to count them...The books themselves are fairly long and cover a LOT of material...I just hope to God they don't screw up The Hobbit, because I will seriously consider hurting someone if they do it badly.
and I though the harry potter movies were all pretty good too. They definitely left out a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been...I can't think of any examples in particular, I just remember after I read the books (which I did after the first five or so movies had already been released) there was a lot of stuff I wish had been in them....but in general, still good movies.
there aren't a lot of books I've read which have been turned into movies...I read most of The Golden Compass, and it had a fair amount in it that was missing...but I can't comment on it too much, because I got bored with the book and stopped reading it.
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Jezza_Belle Title: =^.^=
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Registered: 2001-2-24 02:29:30
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You guys just don't know awful... the Dragonlance movie was done in He-Man style animation... So take my childhood memories of after school cartoon, and mix that with what is at least a pre-teen storyline... just the scene of Tika's boobs bouncing all over the screen at the Inn at the beginning of the book made me feel all kinds of wrong to be watching it!
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DunesVladHarkonnen Title: Moderator
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Registered: 2003-3-29 22:10:08
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/runs off to read the book
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_Haole_ Posts: 103
Registered: 2003-10-16 13:26:56
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Eragon and Dreamcatcher were pretty bad.
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Rhodoman Posts: 1,397
Registered: 2001-6-14 21:02:19
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Brandun posted:
nothing
it's one of the best Stephen King movies ever made
Overpicky Moment, here: It is a Stephen King story but The Shining is Stanley Kubrick movie.
Rho
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Rhodoman Posts: 1,397
Registered: 2001-6-14 21:02:19
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DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
/runs off to read the book
Okay, this has to be an April 1 thing, right? *Nobody* here does what I tell them to do. 
Rho
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uglydwarf Posts: 129
Registered: 2005-2-4 08:37:07
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you are right. nobody does what you tell them to do. he was doing what I told him to do.
Rhodoman posted:
DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
/runs off to read the book
Okay, this has to be an April 1 thing, right? *Nobody* here does what I tell them to do.
Rho
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Rhodoman Posts: 1,397
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Imagine my relief.
Rho
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