Tolkien, though? Shudder. But I wanted to like them, I wanted to be able to enjoy these like seemingly everyone else in the known world, so I rented the first one--Shire & Friends? I forget what it's called--when it came out on DVD, and it took me like, five days to watch because I KEPT FALLING ASLEEP. Didn't bode well, right? But then I did the same thing with the second one. I slept less, but I wandered out of the room more.
The third one I didn't see until it aired on TNT (and even now, I don't think I've seen all of it because of the whole falling asleep/wandering out of the room business). But for whatever reason, I just cannot let it rest that I, you know, just don't like the hobbit movies, and every time TNT airs them I fire up the Tivo and try to watch the whole thing. I figured if nothing else, it would at least become a comforting routine.
And, yeah, this is maybe the fourth or fifth time I've tried to watch these movies? And I am almost enjoying them now. Well, enjoying one, the second one. That one seems alright. Also, while I was bleep-blooping to the part where I stopped watching yesterday, I realized that, like, fully the last hour of that one is dialogue-free (you know what, everyone? if you're going to mumble, it would be awesome if you could at least mumble in ENGLISH), it's just tons of battle, and that I get. When the characters start to get all talky, or action shifts rapidly from scene to scene, or someone gets a notion to do just about anything, I am rapidly and completely confused and annoyed that we seemingly jumped from A to G and there is NO WAY I am trying to suffer through the books to understand why Liv Tyler wears three different outfits in what seems to be one day, and why is there a book and is this a dream and HEY WTF WHERE IS THE BATTLE
OH AND PS? EVERYONE IS STILL SO FIRED FOR NOT TELLING ME ABOUT THE GIANT SPIDER. FIRED FOREVER.
Anyway, if there was a movie where Viggo and Orlando Bloom and the dwarf and the blonde chick whose name sounds like Liv Tyler's character's name but isn't (AND HEY, OMG, COULD THERE BE LESS OF THAT?) fought goblins in the gloomy rain for two hours, I think I would enjoy that movie without reservations.
Also, everyone looks alike. You know I don't care for the hobbits, but I at least feel relieved when it's a Frodo & Samgee (Samwise? Sam) scene, because I can tell those two apart.
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For instance, my opinion of Spider-Man was "Terrific first half, lousy second half". And while I certainly enjoyed Batman Begins, I'm surprised at the credit Nolan received for reinventing the wheel and stuff. Yay for dispensing with Bat-nipples, but he pretty much applies the same "Moody and minamalist/reciting key phrases/implausible and unfeasable supervillain scheme" techniques Bryan Singer does.
Really though, if I didn't love the movies so much, I'd probably hate them, (Read: Pirates of the Carribean) so I say spread your backlash wings.
Arwen (Liv Tyler) is very lovely but also very boring.
I already ruined someone else's day today by telling her I didn't like The Fountainhead. And that's generous, because I actively DESPISE The Fountainhead.
"this is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. it should be thrown with great force."
dorothy parker
I never finished the trilogy of lord of the rings, too wordy.
I couldn't watch the movies either. my son, he was right into them so I bought him the dvd's but I've never really watched further than when Frodo leaves the village in search of Gandalf with the ring...
There was a spider? Cool
I think it's the third movie.
EOWYN. ARWEN. TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
SAMWISE GAMGEE IS HIS NAME.
I have to go now. I seem to have acquired the vapours.
Srsly. *mrmby*WEN and *muff*WYN really sound alike. Why is there so much quiet-speaking in that movie?
And, okay. I will give Samwise Gamgee his real name props, because he's like, one of the two characters that I at no point want to stab in the head. Stabby stab.
And that's funny, because Sam is pretty much my least favourite LOTR character.
And Aragon (Aragorn? Viggo--I'M TRYING, he's got like, 4 names, like everyone else in the freakin' movie) mumbles ALL the time. And then I turn the volume waaaaaay up to try and catch his words, and suddenly there's a REALLY LOUD BATTLE oww, my ears.
I think normally I would dislike Sam because he seems like a bit of a Mary Sue, but his goodhearted stalwart loyalty-based decision making seems like such an improvement in the face of every other character's willful stupidity. Almost every character. At times.
Everyone I know was all swoony over the guys in these movies, and I just have to say, really? REALLY? Which one does it for you? The guy in the TERRIBLE wig? The other guy in the TERRIBLE wig, who's also the size of a 6 year old? The filthy guy? Ugh.
I liked the books ok, although I thought the Hobbit was better, since it was more or less self-contained. Also, if the author's intent is to make a language and then create a world to suit it, I will probably be less than thrilled by the end product.
Also, that blonde hair is terrible on him! But that may be my bias towards men with dark curls.
And I have never been able to get through the books. I tried reading The Fellowship of the Ring and Tom Bombadil basically killed it for me. Thank God they left him out of the movie! I really don't get all the Tolkein love. Give me C.S Lewis any day.
THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE.
<- HOBBIT BIGOT
I did enjoy the movie, though I admit that they were sluggish at points. Basically, anytime Liv Tyler was on-screen was an ideal time for a bathroom break or a quick snooze.
Here's my thing. If you have to watch the movies that many times and FORCE yourself to like them? SO not worth it. I'm not going to waste my time forcing myself to like anything.
I can recognize Sam and Frodo. The other two hobbits are interchangeable to me.
I haven't been able to watch the first two Harry Potter movies from beginning to end. First off, the acting from the leads is atrocious and Emma Watson somehow manages to sound like she's faking an accent even though that's naturally the way she speaks. It wouldn't have hurt for WB to have them take a few acting lessons prior to production. Second, they're so boring. They go on and on. I keep falling asleep when I try to watch them. Whatever people say about the other three, at least I was able to watch them.