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#157598
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If the O-OT ever came out, the future of SW is with the PT fans.
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Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
The LOTR trilogy has just as much of an "overuse" of CG, and perhaps more, than the PT. People seem to like the LOTR trilogy so much becuase it is new, and they have nothing to judge against it.


But the difference is that the CG in LOTR was a lot more believable than in the PT. When watching the PT, I felt like I was watching a cartoon.
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#156602
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HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
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Well, I finally saw it today. Much better than I was anticipating, I have to say. MY only gripes:

1. We don't get to watch the Quidditch World Cup

2. It pretty much gives away Tom Riddle Jr. from the get-go.

3. The music. John Williams's absence is far more painfully obvious than "Prisoner of Azkaban". The birth of Voldemort scene could have used much better music.

Other than that, very well done. I give kudos to Mike Newell. His directing sort of has a Terry Gilliam-ish feel to it.
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#156179
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HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
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I'm sixteen, and I've been reading the HP books since I was in fourth or fifth grade. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that would go against my Catholic beliefs, or any other Christian beliefs for that matter. Heck, my mother has read them and enjoyed them too. The only people that seem to have a problem with them are the ones that don't know anything about them.

Sure, they use magic, but the magic in the books is no different than Gandalf and Saruman's magic in LOTR, really. Only the bad wizards use the bad spells, the students in the schools just learn how to magically unlock doors and things of that nature.


Yet there is a member of this very forum who will not let his children see the movies or read the books untill they are 18. 18!


And yet they will probably be allowed to read "Catcher in the Rye" in freshman or sophomore year in high school (like I was required to do for English class). I kinda find that funny.
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#156116
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HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Everything is a blatant rip off of something else. Hell, Tolkien and CS Lewis more than likely ripped off old myths they were familiar with and used them for their stories.



Actually, since Tolkien was a professor at Oxford and had a lot of dealings with the old English mythology (he even has a published translation of
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo) he definitely drew on them for his LOTR and other books. He expecially drew a lot from Beowulf; for instance, the stuff with Smaug's lair in The Hobbit bears a lot of resemblance to some bits about the dragon's lair in Beowulf, like the fact that a thief stole a trinket from the dragon's hoard, and the dragon therefore got angry and destroyed a nearby town.
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#155777
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What Music Is On Your MP3 Player?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/155777/action/topic#155777
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I still use CDs. I refuse to use iPods, just because they're another trend that I hate. Mp3 players in general just don't do it for me. I love the aesthetic qualities of tearing the shrink-wrap off of a newly bought CD, and popping it into my CD player for the first time, while reading the little insert booklet.

Which reminds me, am I the only one that gets pissed off when there's no booklet inside an album jewel case? I give my hard-earned cash, I expect it to be there, dammit!