I usually don’t reply to the haters but I just felt compelled in this one specific instance. No hard feelings.
The Person in Question
I usually don’t reply to the haters but I just felt compelled in this one specific instance. No hard feelings.
Haters… haters to what exactly ? What do you mean, dude ?
[Frink, is that you ? You’re a little bit funnier usually]
It’s not me but I support anyone who doesn’t like your posts, temporarily or otherwise.
It’s not me but I support anyone who doesn’t like your posts, temporarily or otherwise.
This post is delicious.
The “united frustrated people”. Good to know. Have fun 😄
There’s a difference between “frustrated” and “recognizes someone with a very high bad-to-good post ratio.”
This whole interaction has brought me immeasurable joy…carry on.
I usually don’t reply to the haters but I just felt compelled in this one specific instance. No hard feelings.
Haters… haters to what exactly ? What do you mean, dude ?
[Frink, is that you ? You’re a little bit funnier usually]
Oh yeah, just keep on hating dude. Just don’t have a cow man. I thrive on all the hatin’ bro.
The Person in Question
The Big Lebowski (1998): 9/10
Really great. I loved the direction, the acting, the story and the characters.
One of my favorite movies. Gets better every time ya watch it.
Also, Yeah, Evil Dead 2 and Shaun of the Dead are also great. More of my favorites.
I don’t care much for Army of Darkness (loved it when I was a teenager, but find it painful now), but Evil Dead is one of my favorite horror films (one of my absolute favorite films flat-out) and Evil Dead 2 is one of my favorite horror comedies.I haven’t seen the first Evil Dead yet, it’s just the one that appealed the least to me. I’ll probably get around to watching it soon. Also, why do you find Army of Darkness painful?
The comedy is stupid. The jokes are lame. The one liners wore out their welcome 15 years ago. It’s also pretty boring.
Evil Dead 2 remains funny and exciting. It’s not at childish as AOD.
And the original Evil Dead is a different beast altogether.
The worst part of Army of Darkness is the helicopter shot at the end, when Ash doesn’t say anything at all.
The Fellowship Of The Ring (Theatrical)
I’m rereading and watching LOTR at the moment (read one, watch it, repeat until done).
Movie is great. Exciting, grand, fun. I love it.
A+ as a movie
A as an adaptation
I’m not too bothered by most of the changes from book to movie. Usually, I forgive a lot as long as the tone and spirit of the book is kept. However, I still wish Tom Bombadil wasn’t removed. 😪
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I like Tom Bambadil, but I really don’t see how he would have fit in the film.
Yeah, I know there’s no way they could have fit him in, but I always really liked him and when I first saw the movie I was really sad that he was never even mentioned.
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I think Bombadil would’ve taken some of the sense of urgency out of the Hobbit’s journey. I love his part in the book though, but I think Possessed is right in that it wouldn’t have translated well into film.
The Person in Question
In book adaptations, there’s usually one or two changes that can make or break a movie. Here, many of the changes (like Bombadil) work to make a better movie. While I miss him, I recognize that he wouldn’t fit well.
The example I like to use of just one change ruining the movie for me is the exclusion of Locke and Demosthenes from Ender’s Game.
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I never saw the movie of Enders Game… But WHAT???
Alas, it is true.
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One of the big cinematic “what ifs” I think about every so often is if LOTR had been done a decade later in this “new golden age of TV” as a miniseries (or series of miniseries. Miniseriesseries? Whatever it’s called when you adapt a finite amount of content across multiple seasons. Limited series? I digress). A much more faithful adaptation (with Bombadil included) probably would have been possible with the extra breathing room. I love the films, especially the first two, but I reread the novel a couple years ago and the richness of that experience is just so far beyond anything a trilogy of feature films could hope to achieve, even a trilogy of very long ones.
Anyway, I’ve been meaning to rewatch those myself for a while (and also to reread the book because I got The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion for my birthday a few months ago, which is basically 1200 pages of chapter-by-chapter annotations for the novel, but that’s going to require some serious commitment that I can’t really manage at the moment). I only own the extended edition on blu-ray, though, and I’d really prefer the theatrical cuts for this. I think the whole trilogy is fourteen bucks on amazon right now, I should really order that one of these days.
Spectre - B for better than i expected, but not as good as Daniel Craigs first bond film, Casino Royal, which sadly i lost my dvd of.
bond movies never overly excite though, you always know what you are going to get. thats why i redboxed it.
I want a more faithful Hobbit adaptation. TV, Film, I don’t care. Good Lord, the recent trilogy was a mess.
I know there’s a few great fanedits, but I don’t own the official versions and likely won’t until the price inevitably comes down in a few years. Plus I would need a computer that I can use to actually download and burn movies since my last few attempts ended in disaster.
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There’s always that Russian version of the Hobbit? 😉
Where were you in '77?
If you don’t own the official versions how do you know the fanedits are great?
Based on what I’ve read about them, I assume they’re great.
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I really like the Hobbit movies. Shrug.
Based on what I’ve read about them, I assume they’re great.
