#mortalanonymous

I’ll tell ya right now, we do disagree on a lot of movies. We disagree on a lot, but I avoid talking about the ones that bother me or I feel I have no valuable input towards. I’d rather not argue with you. = )

As for Star Wars and LOTR: Star Wars I like; I can’t be bothered with the books because I don’t love the series that much and it’s got such a huge archive panic (sorry if that’s a trope you haven’t been sucked into reading yet); I’m also terrified of what Disney’s going to do with it. The CGI show is bad enough.

LOTR, as is the norm with book-to-movie adaptations, made some unforgivable changes. The animated Hobbit was more faithful, too, but shockingly, LOTR manages what so few other adaptations do, and is enjoyable. Stylistically pleasing and rather suitably grand-scale. I give that trilogy a pass.

I can understand not wanting to argue about stuff. I try to be nice when I disagree with people about movies though, if it's somebody I actually like! I wouldn't be mean. I might become incredulous or something, but I wouldn't be like actually unkind to you. 

I think for me, the reason the LOTR changes don't hurt so much is because I didn't have the emotional connection to the books like I did to, say, Narnia (which was just an abysmal series when it got adapted a few years ago. SO bad.), and so I was more abstract and detached from the changes. I think leaving out Tom Bombadil was a good idea. I think changing Boromir and Faramir's plot the way they did does Boromir (my favorite LOTR character that's not Eowyn) a huge disservice and makes me feel bad because he's already so misunderstood and maligned. 

Star Wars is a series I have an incredibly strange relationship with. Growing up, we had the series on VHS but both A New Hope and Empire were damaged too badly to watch, so the only one I ever saw until the special edition theatrical rerelease in the 90s was Return of the Jedi. That is why it's my favorite of the Star Wars films. But though I read a few of the comic books and enjoyed what little I played of the video games, the lore and the series itself never sunk in as being "the best and biggest and most amazing thing" and I never truly fell in love. Part of that is because I'm just not into science fiction like I am fantasy (aside from Stargate. I like it more than both Trek and Wars). So while I will admit that the three original movies are good, I don't like Empire as much as most other people do, and I've never considered it the best of the trilogy because I have no emotional attachment to it. As for the prequels, I thought there were some bits and pieces that could have been really good. Attack of the Clones is great for the brief places where it looks like it's going to be a jedi detective/film noir movie, but then it...doesn't do that.

I'm very fond of The Hobbit - Peter Jackson's take on LOTR in general has always been super enjoyable to me, and I think some of his changes need to be made. See every post I've ever made about Tauriel, for instance.

For all interested parties (namely mortalanonymous), here is the dinosaur hoodie that, coupled with my headphones, makes up the "this fictional character wears the same clothes all the time" section of my wardrobe.