My list of everything wrong with the movies (Not EE) - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Knight of Gondor · 04-08-2004, 08:41 PM

*Ehem* Well, if you abridged me a whole lot, that's basically how I feel too.

starkat · 04-09-2004, 05:12 PM

Hey, if you want anything profound out of me, you'll have to visit with me at Narnia web site. I'm better at keeping things short then I am at expounding my full reasons. :-)

TheBladeThatWasBroken · 04-09-2004, 08:37 PM

Geez... this is really getting quite annoying...
The dude took eight years of his life to adapt a thousand-something pages book, ya can't expect him to follow every, single, darn word! If so, he'd probably have to make one movie for every three or four chapters, and seriously, who'd want to sit through all of Tom Bombadil's silly songs? At least he actually took the time to make the films, let's see you do better, and if ya don't like it, then just don't watch it! They actually gave some excuses concerning some of the changes, and most of those excuses are really acceptable... but if you're just too stubborn to accept them, then like my history teacher used to say: "Too bad, so sad, tear

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Knight of Gondor · 04-12-2004, 09:04 PM

Yeah, but they have the right to critique the movie. I just get to defend it!

I have a few issues with the movie too, of course, I think it is far from perfect. I just think that this version is pretty much the best that Hollywood could have given us.

The Only Real Estel · 05-08-2004, 07:31 PM

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Geez... this is really getting quite annoying...

I agree with that. At times it does get annoying, but there's no problem with a little intelligent critisicm.

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At least he actually took the time to make the films, let's see you do better, and if ya don't like it, then just don't watch it!

I don't agree with that. If all you had to say was 'you couldn't do it any better, so it must've been good & above reproach', then life would be to easy.

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They actually gave some excuses concerning some of the changes, and most of those excuses are really acceptable... but if you're just too stubborn to accept them

Some of the excuses are acceptable, some of them are tolerable. Some fo them are stupid. But just because someone doesn't agree with the excuses they give doesn't make the person stubborn, it just means that they either don't buy the excuse or they don't agree with it, & they're entitled to that.

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Geez... this is really getting quite annoying...

But you have to look at it from the other side, too. It might get annoying for you to hear nitpicking, but it also might get annoying to them to be accused of being stubborn & ungrateful.

04-08-2004, 08:41 PM	#1
Knight of Gondor Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 744	Ehem Well, if you abridged me a whole lot, that's basically how I feel too. __________________ Eagerly awaiting the REAL Return of the King - Jesus Christ! Revelation 19:11-16

04-09-2004, 08:37 PM	#3
TheBladeThatWasBroken Animated Skeleton Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hopefully Middle-Earth Posts: 48	Geez... this is really getting quite annoying... The dude took eight years of his life to adapt a thousand-something pages book, ya can't expect him to follow every, single, darn word! If so, he'd probably have to make one movie for every three or four chapters, and seriously, who'd want to sit through all of Tom Bombadil's silly songs? At least he actually took the time to make the films, let's see you do better, and if ya don't like it, then just don't watch it! They actually gave some excuses concerning some of the changes, and most of those excuses are really acceptable... but if you're just too stubborn to accept them, then like my history teacher used to say: "Too bad, so sad, tear " __________________ Here I set it, but I command you not to touch it, nor to permit any other to lay hand on it. In this elvish sheath dwells the Blade that was Broken and has been made again. Telchar first wrought it in the deeps of time. Death shall come to any man that draws Elendil's sword save Elendil's heir.

04-12-2004, 09:04 PM	#4
Knight of Gondor Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 744	Yeah, but they have the right to critique the movie. I just get to defend it! I have a few issues with the movie too, of course, I think it is far from perfect. I just think that this version is pretty much the best that Hollywood could have given us. __________________ Eagerly awaiting the REAL Return of the King - Jesus Christ! Revelation 19:11-16

04-09-2004, 05:12 PM	#2
starkat Wight Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Cair Paravel during the Golden Age of Narnia Posts: 146	Hey, if you want anything profound out of me, you'll have to visit with me at Narnia web site. I'm better at keeping things short then I am at expounding my full reasons. :-)