Subject:
|
Re: Lord of the Rings
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.fun
|
Date:
|
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 03:55:54 GMT
|
Reply-To:
|
johnneal@%Spamless%uswest.net
|
Viewed:
|
595 times
|
| |
|
|
Sproaticus wrote:
> Pete Postlethwaite. He was the cliche hunter guy in the Lost World. Good
> actor, terrible movie.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
???
Wow. I loved it. 'Course, I read Jurassic Park years before it became a
movie, and Lost World. Movies can't do justice to the books on which they are
based [1], but they do a good job of graphically portraying the characters,
especially Dinos:-) Reading the book and *then* seeing movies is the best way
IMO to go. I'd think living in Utah you'd be a little more sympathetic to our
extinct friends;-)
-John
[1] Major exception: The Natural. Hated the book. Loved the movie. Movie
was *far* better IMO
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Lord of the Rings
|
| (...) I kinda liked the book (loved JP), but I saw the movie first, and what a bad first impression. The good guys were making mistakes no sane person would make, half the movie was obviously filmed to sell the toys, the physics were all bad, what (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: Lord of the Rings
|
| (...) Well, the movie did have one advantage over the book: It didn't have to start the very first scene with the apalling retcon of how Ian (?) the mathemagician really _isn't_ dead. Other than that... both the book and the movie, even compared to (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Lord of the Rings
|
| (...) Pete Postlethwaite. He was the cliche hunter guy in the Lost World. Good actor, terrible movie. (...) Leonardo DiCaprio? :-P Or perhaps Gene Wilder... (...) Glenn Close as Galadriel and Uma Thurman as Eowyn. (...) That does it. I'm OUTTA UTAH (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
69 Messages in This Thread:
   
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
