What Are You Watching Now
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@tim_g said in What Are You Watching Now:
Books are always better with everything.
Books contain so many more details and a ton more "time". If you duplicated a book to a movie you'd have like a 12+ hour movie and spend a billion dollars. YOu just can't. So it's all pick and choose.
Sometimes there are exceptions to the rule. The Hunger Games books are pretty bad. The first movie was REALLY bad, but then I believe it was the 2nd and 3rd movies that were actually better than the books. But the 4th movie was meh.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@momurda said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
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@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Watching Now:
Books are always better with everything.
Books contain so many more details and a ton more "time". If you duplicated a book to a movie you'd have like a 12+ hour movie and spend a billion dollars. YOu just can't. So it's all pick and choose.
I think Peter Jackson did a decent job with LotR, at least remaining true to the spirit of the story while not including 100% of the details.
Tolkien was terrible with prose. He couldn't write himself out of a box if he tried. His world building though was phenomenal, and that's really the only reason you read the LoTR or the Silmarillion. The Hobbit was slightly better but still only for the world elements.
Actually, I don't like his world building, either. I find his worlds to be two dimensional and nonsensical. It doesn't feel like a "living" world. Things are big and overdramatic in a world that is empty and pointless.
Only my 2nd downvote ever on this site. You choose HP over LOTR, come on. Not even in the same league. HP is double A minor league in comparison to LOTR.
As movies go, LOtR rocks. But as books, very weak
HP the opposite.
JK Rowling is a fantastic author. I think I've read all of her books. We listen to the Harry Potter audiobooks every winter.
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@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!
ouch
Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.
I actually prefer the first two to the rest of them. Some fantastic costumes and sets, and some great casting.
You just have to deal with child acting and a not smoothed out book to movie translation.
If we have kids they're going to be shocked the first time they find out HP movies exist.
I don't mind the kids in teh first ones, they had to be rough, they were so young. It's the insanely trimmed story lines and focus on super goofy effects instead of the story. They went for so much broom flying, computer characters flailing around, and running from event to event and not establishing a mood. They are so trimmed, that if you don't read the books, they don't even quite make sense. My six year old complains that they are so cut compared to the books.
I haven't seen any movies made after the Goblet of Fire because of how drastically they cut the story down.
You quit too soon. They get better and better and by book seven they are amazing.
I'm starting to reconsider trusting everything you've ever said
We tried to go through all the movies again and made it through six before we gave up and declared it as not worth it.
And we've made it through all of the Bond movies.
The last two movies are REALLY good, a leap ahead of even #6.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!
ouch
Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.
I actually prefer the first two to the rest of them. Some fantastic costumes and sets, and some great casting.
You just have to deal with child acting and a not smoothed out book to movie translation.
If we have kids they're going to be shocked the first time they find out HP movies exist.
I don't mind the kids in teh first ones, they had to be rough, they were so young. It's the insanely trimmed story lines and focus on super goofy effects instead of the story. They went for so much broom flying, computer characters flailing around, and running from event to event and not establishing a mood. They are so trimmed, that if you don't read the books, they don't even quite make sense. My six year old complains that they are so cut compared to the books.
I haven't seen any movies made after the Goblet of Fire because of how drastically they cut the story down.
You quit too soon. They get better and better and by book seven they are amazing.
I'm starting to reconsider trusting everything you've ever said
We tried to go through all the movies again and made it through six before we gave up and declared it as not worth it.
And we've made it through all of the Bond movies.
The last two movies are REALLY good, a leap ahead of even #6.
I remember watching #8 in theatre on opening night. I didn't mind it then, but now watching all the movies just doesn't feel worth it.
I hope someday we get a BBC Harry Potter, though it would have to be WB partnered since they have the film rights.
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@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
we've made it through all of the Bond movies.
Because Bond is awesome
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@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Watching Now:
Books are always better with everything.
Books contain so many more details and a ton more "time". If you duplicated a book to a movie you'd have like a 12+ hour movie and spend a billion dollars. YOu just can't. So it's all pick and choose.
Sometimes there are exceptions to the rule. The Hunger Games books are pretty bad. The first movie was REALLY bad, but then I believe it was the 2nd and 3rd movies that were actually better than the books. But the 4th movie was meh.
Rule #1: There are exceptions to every rule
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Curious - what are you watching in on? the on screen controls are not ones I recognize. -
Re-watched parts of this being made... wow.. turned out very nice.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller
Curious - what are you watching in on? the on screen controls are not ones I recognize.HBO Go on a Kindle Fire Stick.
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Stopped halfway through Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to switch to reading.
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Finishing Deadwood with Laura
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:
Finishing Deadwood with Laura
That was a great series. A shame they pulled it.
Ian McShane is sooooo good in that.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:
Finishing Deadwood with Laura
I was going to post two of my favorite two scenes but realized neither are appropriate for even ML, LOL.
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@brrabill said in What Are You Watching Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:
Finishing Deadwood with Laura
That was a great series. A shame they pulled it.
Ian McShane is sooooo good in that.
Watch American Gods. I love Ian McShane.
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This thread is too long to read everything, but Planet Earth 2 was bad ash!
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@computerchip said in What Are You Watching Now:
This thread is too long to read everything, but Planet Earth 2 was bad ash!
No, you have to read through all 1780 posts before replying.
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@computerchip said in What Are You Watching Now:
This thread is too long to read everything, but Planet Earth 2 was bad ash!
Good Ash, Bad Ash... I'm the one with the gun.
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Just restarted Andromeda. If this keeps up I'll be watching Babylon5 before to long.
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@travisdh1 The only episode I remember of that show is where they found these artifacts and became super human, but it put such a strain on their body that they were dying faster
