RicOlie_2 said:

generalfrevious said:

TV's Frink said:

You haven't even seen them? Get out of this thread.

I don't need to eat arsenic to know it's poison. And I have seen the LOTR trilogy, so I should be in half of this thread.

Anyone can make a movie look bad to someone who hasn't seen it, but that has little to do with whether or not that person would enjoy it or not if they actually saw it.

Yeah well said, I at least watched the last Transformers movie before calling it garbage. Now I may not be interested in the next Star Trek movie after the last two but once it comes out I wouldn't claim to know if it was a good or bad movie when I have not seen it.

I have read all of Tolkien's stuff several times and that doesn't stop me from enjoying Jackson's version of middle earth. They are well made films and anyone who says otherwise doesn't know a thing about modern film making. I live and breath bad movies and there are far worse films out there.

Also adapting a book to the screen in a way that you think will best work as a film and get investors in the film their money back is nowhere close to digging up a corps. Oh and Tolkien himself said that anyone who wanted to turn his books into films would have to make major changes to them in order to do so and he was fine with that, that is why he let the film rights go cheap when he was alive, because he knew the director would have to put a lot of work into the script to make it work on screen. I can't say the changes bother me. I enjoy the films and I have seen them.