The Shining Ones

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woops

is not like other people
luke always talks like everyone always has drugs in or you can just pop out to the drugs shop
 

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I hate the bits with Frodo, Sam and Gollum, but the rest's great. Also they're just a cultural landmark. They're embedded. Everyone's seen at least a bit of them.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
There are so many tedious, sentimental, pompous and cringeworthy bits in those films, but I basically love them all.

I haven't read the books but from the evidence of the films I'd say Gollum was the best character Tolkien created. He hit on something archetypal there. Certainly I have a gollum/smeaogal thing going on in my head.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
It is weird how Dissensus turned out, isn't it?

You'd probably have been lynched for liking LOTR on here in 2005.
 

poetix

we murder to dissect
Same cinematic universe, same tropes, many of the same characters, same gorgeous landscapes, but for the most part just so utterly redundant and meandering and such a joyless cash-in. It could have been a single really good movie.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
We can agree that the Hobbit films are wretched, though?
I have avoided watching these like the plague. Apparently they feature an elf-dwarf love story? Eeeurgh.

One of them was being shown while I was on a long flight once, so I thought I'd risk watching a few minutes. The bit I saw featured Radagast (who is named once or twice in the book but doesn't even appear as a real character), done up to look like someone who might have been camped out to protest a motorway bypass in Hampshire in 1994, having a little bird chirp in his ear and exclaiming "Ooh, I've got a 'tweet'!".

I imagined poor Ronald doing a rapid rate of RPM in his grave.
 
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