Best Lotr/hobbit movies - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Kuruharan · 10-11-2016, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Nerwen

But the gold dwarf statue/dragon trap! Surely you'd have liked to witness the creative ferment that led to that glorious invention? No?

Decency prohibits me to name that particular kind of ferment that I think that process could be best likened to.

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a lot of nerds are really rather dumb, you know. I mean I don't think they tend to be all that good at forming their own opinions in the first place.

But that holds true for every topic across human history.

Nerwen · 10-11-2016, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Kuruharan

Decency prohibits me to name that particular kind of ferment that I think that process could be best likened to.

But that holds true for every topic across human history.

In a way... but you must know the particular nerd-fanboy mentality I'm talking about. We're not talking about some genuinely complex issue that most people couldn't be expected to really understand, after all- it's just whether or not they liked a given movie. What I'm saying is, I don't really feel like patting myself on the back just because nerd consensus happens to have swung my way for the moment, since I just don't think it means much.

William Cloud Hicklin · 12-15-2016, 08:54 AM

Best movies?

1) FR
2 (tie) TT, RK

That's the end of the list; since "best" is the superlative of "good", one can't include movies about which there is nothing good. Perhaps if the variable term were "least abysmal....." or "descending order of suckitude".......

Nerwen · 12-19-2016, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

Best movies?

1) FR
2 (tie) TT, RK

That's the end of the list; since "best" is the superlative of "good", one can't include movies about which there is nothing good. Perhaps if the variable term were "least abysmal....." or "descending order of suckitude".......

Okay- what's your descending order of suckitude, then?

William Cloud Hicklin · 12-23-2016, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Nerwen

Okay- what's your descending order of suckitude, then?

∞) AUJ
∞+1 (tie) DOS, BOFA

Morthoron · 12-23-2016, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

∞) AUJ
∞+1 (tie) DOS, BOFA

The suckitude is strong with those, my young Padawan.

I would say...

1) FotR
2) RotK

3) TTT

...And then the rest fall into the Bromidic Abyss of Banal Prequelity.

Kuruharan · 12-26-2016, 03:20 PM

So following in the footsteps of the Star Wars franchise, what are the odds that Jackson will come back again with some..."midquels" to milk out some more money?

(Is there an accepted neologism for "new movies between the original and the prequels or sequels" yet?)

12-15-2016, 08:54 AM	#3
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Best movies? 1) FR 2 (tie) TT, RK That's the end of the list; since "best" is the superlative of "good", one can't include movies about which there is nothing good. Perhaps if the variable term were "least abysmal....." or "descending order of suckitude"....... __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

12-26-2016, 03:20 PM	#7
Kuruharan Regal Dwarven Shade Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold Posts: 3,593	So following in the footsteps of the Star Wars franchise, what are the odds that Jackson will come back again with some..."midquels" to milk out some more money? (Is there an accepted neologism for "new movies between the original and the prequels or sequels" yet?) __________________ ...finding a path that cannot be found, walking a road that cannot be seen, climbing a ladder that was never placed, or reading a paragraph that has no...