Obviously I disagree. I'm glad you feel very informed about those movies! More power to you! :)
Not really. The CGI didn't impress me as a child/teenager back then and they certainly don't impress me now - it's just bland and boring. Not sure what Harry Potter has to do with LOTR.
I enjoy action as much as the next person but I'd say LOTR's action scenes were far better. They also weren't plagued with over used CGI, "3D gimmicks" like things flying to the screen and characters being there who shouldn't have been doing stupid things (Legolas jumping on falling rocks and slicing necks whilst hanging from something).
Same. And i was a 10 year old who sat through Oliver Stones JFK and loved it.
good for you, i guess? I've seen bad cgi and good cgi, and LOTR is definitely not in the former.
you said the movies were boring, i was suggesting something more apt to your tastes.
Lol. I don't remember about in the movies, but in the book, Boromir (or someone else, I forget who) does propose to catapult the ring there, but they quickly shut it down because of lack of accuracy.Should have asked the eagles to take the ring to Mt. Doom. Then the Fellowship could have skipped everything.
Or a catapult.
lol I suppose that's true. One and done.
I just read Fellowship. I don't have the book with me but I can try to find it later. It may not have been Boromir, but someone else at the council. I'm quite sure someone suggested it in the book while discussing what they are supposed to do.
Quite sure, yes, unless I misinterpreted it. The answer to this proposal was that they were not sure it would just land somewhere near the mountain, and that would let the ring be close to Sauron and his minions to easily obtain.
Eh? No need to criticize. I was in the right mind when reading. I can find the exact passage and see if I just misinterpreted the text.
Haha I initially read your post as "I love the podracing" and wondered what version this was I could see where Anakin podraces in Lord of The Rings
Nah. I didn't hate LOTR, but I realized that it's not my cup of tea. My biggest issue with the movies is that Sam is the only likable character as far as I'm concerned and he is treated the worst throughout the movies. I don't have confidence in Jackson to create characters that I like. In fact I should have been clearer upfront that the "movie" aspects of this trilogy are the reason why I just could not buy the story. I'm sure that Frodo is great in the book, but the way Jackson portrayed him made me REALLY hate that character. I'm still pissed that Sam didn't just push him with the ring into the lava. I would pay for that alternate ending! :) Just in general tonal shifts didn't work for me. I think I would have loved this trilogy if it just stayed more "whimsical" like the first half of the Fellowship. This is probably the reason why I liked the second movie the most. It's has more consistent tone.
