Holy stuff, The Hobbit is Phenomenal

[devildogelite]

I really don't understand when people's only complaints are, IT DIDN'T FOLLOW THE BOOK!!!!!! 

Ok, it added some to the book, but was it still a good movie?

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[otto-san]

I really don't understand when people's only complaints are, IT DIDN'T FOLLOW THE BOOK!!!!!! 

Ok, it added some to the book, but was it still a good movie?

it was still a good movie, and there's only a couple things that were "ergh" about it.

9.7/10 is my personal rating

[devildogelite]

it was still a good movie, and there's only a couple things that were "ergh" about it.

9.7/10 is my personal rating

I saw it and I liked it a lot, I don't think it was quite as good as LotR though. But those are probably my favorite movies ever made so it's hard to top them.

[Cybersix]

I really don't understand when people's only complaints are, IT DIDN'T FOLLOW THE BOOK!!!!!! 

Ok, it added some to the book, but was it still a good movie?

What they did add actually happened around that time according to the appendices at the end of Return of the King and other sources. So when people complain about "it wasn't in the book" they're just talking out of their ass.

[Nymethus]

I don't know how many other ways I can explain this: the hobbit is not included in the "LotR" grouping because the plot is different, but it is part of the larger informal "LotR" story grouping because it precedes the other books. If I were to publish two books, one a sequel to the other, but not officially label them as a series; they're still a series because of the definition of the word "series":
A number of things, events, or people of a similar kind or related nature coming one after another: "a series of lectures".

LOTR is a title. It is a title. A title. A title applied to the LOTR books and movies. Not The Hobbit.
The reason Wikipedia acts the way it does is because LotR is more specific than LOTR, not because LotR is correct and LOTR isn't.

it's hard to top them [LOTR]

it shouldn't be when you're the same person with the same crew and have more money.

What they did add actually happened around that time according to the appendices at the end of Return of the King and other sources. So when people complain about "it wasn't in the book" they're just talking out of their ass.

Well technically they're not if it wasn't taken from the book. The problem with adding extra stuff is that Bilbo is telling Frodo a bunch of things he [Bilbo] has (had) no idea about.

[Trinick!]

LOTR is irrelevant. Do you understand how acronyms work? Lord of the Rings -> LotR. Lord Of The Rings does not exist. Lord of the Rings does.

Also: nice bump.

[King Leo]

The movie was great, but there were a couple of things I didn't like about it.

I didn't like all the parts where they tried to be funny way too hard. That's the stuff you expect to find in bad action movies, but it was way too cliche for this movie.

I also didn't like that Jackson wants to turn one book into three movies, just to earn more money. Adding random stuff that wasn't in the book to the movie didn't help either. Like that White Orc guy.

 

[Nymethus]

LOTR is irrelevant. Do you understand how acronyms work? Lord of the Rings -> LotR. Lord Of The Rings does not exist. Lord of the Rings does.

You'll have to give some kind of source. otherwise you're just making stuff up as far as I know.

Radar was secretly developed by several nations before and during World War II. The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging.[1] The term radar has since entered English and other languages as the common noun radar, losing all capitalization.

Necco (or NECCO), pronounced "neck-o", is the acronym for the New England Confectionery Company, a manufacturer of candy.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California.

Yeah, I think you're making stuff up. Stop it.

The movie was great, but there were a couple of things I didn't like about it.

I didn't like all the parts where they tried to be funny way too hard. That's the stuff you expect to find in bad action movies, but it was way too cliche for this movie.

I also didn't like that Jackson wants to turn one book into three movies, just to earn more money. Adding random stuff that wasn't in the book to the movie didn't help either. Like that White Orc guy.

It sounds like you only liked a couple of things and thought the rest was rubbish.

[Daedalus]

You'll have to give some kind of source. otherwise you're just making stuff up as far as I know.

Radar was secretly developed by several nations before and during World War II. The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging.[1] The term radar has since entered English and other languages as the common noun radar, losing all capitalization.

Necco (or NECCO), pronounced "neck-o", is the acronym for the New England Confectionery Company, a manufacturer of candy.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California.

Yeah, I think you're making stuff up. Stop it.
It sounds like you only liked a couple of things and thought the rest was rubbish.

no, Trinick's actually right - words with three letters or less are almost always uncapitalized unless they're important
'of' and 'the' are unimportant words and thus go uncapitalized

[Trinick!]

RAdio Detection And Ranging -> RADAR. Try pronouncing RDAR as a word. Exceptions are made for pronunciation. I'm not making anything up. It's LotR.

[Nymethus]

no, Trinick's actually right - words with three letters or less are almost always uncapitalized unless they're important
'of' and 'the' are unimportant words and thus go uncapitalized

source?

RAdio Detection And Ranging -> RADAR. Try pronouncing RDAR as a word. Exceptions are made for pronunciation. I'm not making anything up. It's LotR.

nice source.

[Fredulus]

wait so why isn't it RADaR then, trinick? lols

[WALDO]

This movie was tons of fun, 5/5 stars. It wasn't as great as the other movies were but this isn't as big of a story as those, so you really can't top them.

[Fredulus]

but this isn't as big of a story as those, so you really can't top them.

yeah since they chopped the book into thirds. if they had done halves.. it might have still been good. thirds was too much, the story just draaags on. they had to throw in extra villains like Azog to make it work at all. and honestly he just made it worse

[Trinick!]

wait so why isn't it RADaR then, trinick? lols

Becuase RADaR looks handicapped so they stylize it as RADAR which was eventually changed to just radar. Same thing with SFMoMA, that looks handicapped so it's stylized as SFMOMA. There's a difference between a stylization and the way acronyms are formed. It's LotR.