Lord of the Rings

[Booklover]

nor I. I really enjoyed them, though, some parts did irk me.. buuut, over all they are great movies, not as good as the books, but that's just my option..

Who would ever want movies or TV when there are books?

[shisteer of nothing much]

nor I. I really enjoyed them, though, some parts did irk me.. buuut, over all they are great movies, not as good as the books, but that's just my option..

Your opinion is very, completely and in all other ways correct, as far as I'm concerned.

[The Shadow of Korriban]

Who would ever want movies or TV when there are books?

Books are quite good for the brain.  Though, (My opinion) TV and cinema will let your mind believe what is happening in a quite simpler fashion.

[lass of something much]

Mmm, very true..

nor I. I really enjoyed them, though, some parts did irk me.. buuut, over all they are great movies, not as good as the books, but that's just my option..

Your opinion is very, completely and in all other ways correct, as far as I'm concerned.

[shisteer of nothing much]

nor I. I really enjoyed them, though, some parts did irk me.. buuut, over all they are great movies, not as good as the books, but that's just my option..

Who would ever want movies or TV when there are books?

Whilst I agree that books are preferably to both of those alternatives, there is a place for movies and TV.

[Cornflower MM]

I agree with Teer. I like movies and TV shows, when they're interesting and done well.

Although I can't say I enjoyed the first Hobbit movie, so much so that I never finished it and I haven't seen the other two. (There's a chance I watched the first one and couldn't get through the second, I can't remember exactly now that I'm thinking about it, but that in and of itself says something) I was just..... Extremely bored with all the violence and action. There was too much for my tastes and not enough plot. Shame, really, I liked The Hobbit more than The Lord of the Rings. (Bookwise)

[shisteer of nothing much]

I think it would be hard to make the movies better, though. There is a lot of action in the book, but it's different because, rather than just seeing action, you know what people are thinking and why they're doing what they're doing. In a movie, you can only see what's going on on the outside, so it just seems like unnecessary violence and a lot of yelling. The movies could have been a lot worse.

[lass of something much]

indeed, and at lest they tryed to show what was going on..

[Jetthebinturong]

That is simply not true. The majority of the boring action in the Hobbit films was added into the movies to pad out the runtime and justify having three parts, it was never in the book. And most of it is just ridiculous and over the top.

[lass of something much]

nonsense, they had to cut allot out, and that still left three parts, and as for pointless actshon, in the book it could be summed up in a paragraph, but in the movie they needed to bring it to life, and give the characters more...well character...

[shisteer of nothing much]

This could become a rather heated argument. Maybe we should just talk about Radagast or something.

[lass of something much]

it's fine, I don't think anybeast is in any way upset...

[Jetthebinturong]

nonsense, they had to cut allot out, and that still left three parts, and as for pointless actshon, in the book it could be summed up in a paragraph, but in the movie they needed to bring it to life, and give the characters more...well character...

For the first movie: Everything with Radagast and being chased by orcs doesn't happen. Fight in the goblin cave is much less... video game-y. "Out of the frying pan" scene has no fight.
Second movie: Barrel scene has no fight. Battle in Lake Town doesn't happen. Battle with Smaug doesn't happen.
The third movie is the only one that's somewhat justified, because the battle happened in the book, we just didn't see it because Bilbo was unconscious.

[Booklover]

Yeah, in the book The Battle of the Five Armies was probably not even two pages.

[Sebias of Redwall]

One thing to remember is that movies and books have different story structures and such. Each can get away with certain things, and sometimes film makers need to add/take out scenes while making adaptions. Not saying The Hobbit films were perfect, but some changes were understandable imo.

Any update on the LOTR TV show?