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Lord Of The Rings is decent

WittumWittum Member Posts: 553 ✭✭✭
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
Maybe worth seeing if you can stand a movie that is made to have a sequal with no real ending.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Waaaaaait a minute. I didn't think that it opened yet.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's not MEANT to have an ending. It is the first book in the trilogy. The book doesn't end decisively. If the movie is going to be true to the novel, it shouldn't either!
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  • WittumWittum Member Posts: 553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Your right the movie hasnt opened yet, but i used to work for a theatre and i get to watch movies before the come out, so it is an ok deal. It is a ok movie, check it out.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I still have "gaming" (AD&D) in my blood. I saw Dungeons & Dragons when it first came out and have rented it twice since then. I have been planning on getting to LOTR ever since I heard they were making the movies over a year ago. I grew up reading the LOTR trilogy annualy.
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  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ids:I too am a recovering AD&D addict. RPG's are a lot of fun, but my old crew broke up after high school (Betcha haven't heard of THAT happening before!) and I haven't played since. I've heard from a few of my customer's who are die-hard LOTR fans that the movie is VERY faithful to the first book and the script is basically verbatim from the novel. I certainly LOOKS good. I'll have to go see it. It came out at midnight last night I believe. I'm STILL waiting for them to make a Shadowrun movie, not just a Matrix or Johnny Mnemonic (sp?) rip-off.
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The appeal of Lord of the Rings cuts deeper than politics, but I didn't expect to find a thread about it here! I plan to take the family on the 24th.Books I would like to see done with the same level of quality: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian tales, Zelazny's Amber series, Heinlein's Cat Who Walks Through Walls and/or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and/or Glory Road (they ruined Starship Troopers), Asimov's Foundation trilogy. I'm not holding my breath.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I met my "crew" (instrumentofwar and 13fister) in the Army. We will game again someday. I can feel it in my bones. Heck, I don't have anyone to game with but I bought a new manual a few months ago (Reverse Dungeon).
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You know, with the advent of computer-assisted production, it might well be possible to bring some of these classic SF works to the screen. They sure would have some excellent material with which to work. How about the Niven/Pournelle collaborations - particularly "Lucifer's (Satan's?) Hammer" Or the Harry Harrison's "The Stainless Steel Rat"? Doubt many in LA could capture the wry humor of Zelazny or Harrison, though.
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  • Miss. CreantMiss. Creant Member Posts: 300 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This movie opened on Dec. 18th in SD. Gordian Blade are you an Edgar Rice Bouroughs fan? i used to have the complete collection of Tarzan and Mars books. Think I need to get to the library and read up on John Carter and Barsoom. Thanks for bringing up the memory.
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  • SP45SP45 Member Posts: 1,761 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I read the lord of the rings twice. Once in junior high school and once in the service. I think I just might read them again, its been about 24 years,Wow someone else who is ERB fan. I have all the martian series and most of the Tarzan. How about some of the less known like Pellucidar (voyage to the center of the earth for most of you), The moon maid, men. And the Venus series.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    EvilATF--Not that my opinion of you wasn't high already but it keeps on going up. I think you would get along with 13fister, instrumentofwar and me. The three of us did the AD&D thing all night on many occasions while stationed together at Fort Drum, NY.
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  • Miss. CreantMiss. Creant Member Posts: 300 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Been there and done that also SP45. I got my kids reading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn right now. Robinson Crusoe is next but I will add ERB I had forgot about him. Hell I think I will read all of them over. My entire ERB collection was stolen in the late 80's in Ft. Sill, OK.
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  • Rotten BastardRotten Bastard Member Posts: 13 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    For you ERB fans-Project Gutenberg has a bunch of his stuff on line. I downloaded some of the Barsooom stuff and a couple Tarzans for my laptop to read on the plane...Gotta love technology.RBIllegitimi Non Carborundum[This message has been edited by Rotten * (edited 12-19-2001).]
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  • jetjet Member Posts: 543 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    great hardcore sf tooany doom masters,S.W. ,duke ,quake
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow! Other fans of ERB! I used to read the Martian stories to my kids at bedtime. We alternated between those and Hobbit / Lord of the Rings. I didn't get into Tarzan as much, I don't know why. I loved watching Johnny Weissmueller Tarzan movies on TV when I was a kid. Pellucidar never appealed to me that much either, but I think I know why: When I was a kid, a friend read me the part where the humans are hypnotized to go into the water so the lizard men can have fun eating them. It kind of freaked me out.You may have trouble finding the Martian tales at your library. The first one, A Princess of Mars, was written in 1914 and is not considered "important" enough by many librarians to warrant the shelf space. Fortunately, I have retained my paperback collection. I also have high-res digitized images of the cover art.Did you know that some of the science fiction ideas of ERB in the Martian tales have come to pass? I can think of the following things off the top of my head (and keep in mind when the books were written): digital watch with GPS, atomic power, bioengineering and genetic manipulation, transplant surgery, and automated flying weapons. There were a couple of other things I can't remember at the moment; I haven't read them for 10 years.
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  • .250Savage.250Savage Member Posts: 812 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Science fiction always preceeds science fact. Who would have believed in the 19th century that those funny stories by that crazy H. G. Wells would ever come true? Men on the moon indeed! If you want to know the "shape of things to come", read sci-fi.
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  • thebutcherthebutcher Member Posts: 374 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    SP45- I knew an English professor who proclaimed that every thinking person should read LOTR every ten years. Her philosophy is that each decade that passes makes the story more relevant. Enjoy the read.
    The definition of an "expert":An "X" is an unknown quantity and a "spurt" is a drip under pressure.
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  • Rotten BastardRotten Bastard Member Posts: 13 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey 'BladeHave you read Heinlein's Number of the Beast?Sounds like it might be right up your alley...Hmmm... The ERB Barsoom series was re-released in paperback in the late 70's early 80's... Check your old book shop.RBIllegitimi Non Carborundum
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