Elmer is right about the classic thing. But still LOTR is a very good trilogy. Personally I can't say which one is better, not a huge fan of any of those movies.
Star Wars: instant classic. LOTR: won't be a classic for a few more years.
That's about the most ignorant statement I've seen in a while..
While I may be biased (Lord of the Rings completely and totally), to say that Lord of the Rings isn't a classic is just unbelievable. It's been around for 30 - 40 years more than Star Wars. It's had countless remakes of it done already. Just because the definitive version of it just came out recently does not make it a "new" movie. Basically George Lucas took The Lord Of The Rings and put it in a future setting instead of a midevil (sp?) sort of setting. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, but no way that you can't call the Lord of the Rings a classic.
Well, it was ignorant, because J.R.R. Tolkien didn't write that part for Elijah Wood. He is just one of the most captivating people to capture that particular role. Plus you make the quest sound like he was trying to find a bathroom in the mall or something. He was on a journey to rid middle earth of the most corrupt force on that earth. What's the difference really between the different factions of good and evil battling amongst each other for complete control except that in one it's "aliens and robots" and in the other it's wizards, ents, hobbits, trolls, dwarfs, elves, etc. The main difference is the time frame, and the fact that Lord of the Rings came 30-40 years before Lucas ever "thought" of it.
Plus you make the quest sound like he was trying to find a bathroom in the mall or something. He was on a journey to rid middle earth of the most corrupt force on that earth.
Hey, usually if a man is trying to find the WC, it is because he is on a journey to get rid of the most corrupt force on earth. The fact that he went all the way to middle earth to do it is what puzzles me.
in one it's "aliens and robots" and in the other it's wizards, ents, hobbits, trolls, dwarfs, elves, etc.
Well, my opinion clearly states that I prefer aliens and robots over wizards and all that jazz. Am I not entitled to my own opinion? LOTR was just a downright boring series to me, because I'm not into the type of "magic" used in the series. If "Elijah Wood going on a quest" was all I could absorb from that entire series, it means that it just wasn't the right series for me.
Well of course you're entitled to your opinion. That's what these threads are about really, discussions like this. Though if you would have said all of what you said in your last post, you wouldn't have been labeled ignorant in the first place. Bear in mind that I wasn't the one calling you that. I was just the one trying to explain, perhaps, why the other guy called you that.
Go LOTR! It is the best. I read all the books in first grade. I'm not kidding. I acctually dries tears of happieness at the end of the books. Plus the Lord of the Rings has walking trees, elves, dwarves, men, sorrcerors, hobbits, and goblins. Not to mention the balrog and other timless villans.
And what is that about LOTR not being old enough to be a classic? Those books were made long ago even before there was a galaxy far far away.
