Ok, if you haven't seen this yet:

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• you have no brain
  
• you have no money
  
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The ickyness quotient was down by 33% from the first movie, but would have rocketed back up if they had included Shelob. The Elijah wood hotness factor remains about the same. However, he becomes brooding and aloof like an artist, so if you're the type attracted to the aloof, brooding and artist-like types, Elijah wood becomes 20% hotter than the first movie. Legolas has a smooth factor of 86% compared with the 94% in the original movie, but still maintains his elfish spry-hots at a remarkable 99.9%. Gimli the dwarf gains 400% coolness factor, unless you happen to be short like Ashley and hate short people jokes, in which case he takes a -65% coolness hit.

All information posted herein is objectively true.

LOL did you write this?

As opposed to me FINDING something this stupid anywhere else? :rofl: :lol: :rofl:

OK...after viewing this film 5 times (I'm trying to beat my record of 8 times viewing FotR in theaters), I just have one adjustment to your analysis. Legolas's (:wub:...well I AM female) smoothness factor should probably be a bit higher, as he has more lines...and some of them actually make the character more like that in the book (in which he's a bit sarcastic). Oh, and the "annoying love scene with Arwen" quotient should be tripled :X .

I am not short just vertically challenged

That's what Gimli would say :r

The weather is always better down here. I feel so sorry for you people of normal or tall height! :w00t:

did anyone else wanna cry when they made Faramir a...well a less good guy? i was going to say slightly bad guy but he ends up good anyway so that didn't quite fit. but seriously, in the book he was very awesome because he was like the better half of Boromir and there was a whole family/sibling rivalry/men are bad, men are good issue goin on and they so killed it in the movie. -sigh- i guess i just wanted everything to be exactly like it was in the book.

hmmmmm, I think I actually enjoyed the movie more since I haven't read the books. I got about half way through the fellowship but never finished it.

Wow... I am so exactly the opposite. My movie experience was so greatly enhanced by my having read the books beforehand that it wasn't even funny :P.

I'm glad that I read the books before the movie came out...and the whole Faramir issue was kinda annoying. :/ i mean, he's not really mean at all in the books, but i guess his "movie-attitude" makes sense with his father's personality.

Well, I don't know that it helped me for sure, I just have heard multiple people say that they didn't like many parts of the movies due to descrepencies with the books. :s

Have you ever noticed that it seems better to watch the movie then read the book instead of reading the book and then watching the movie? :s

Yea. I did that with Contact. I liked the movie, I liked the book, and now I still like the movie though.

lol, i did the same thing with that movie. and Sphere. it's probably a good idea, watching the movie without preconceptions. plus, when you go back and read the book you can seriously imagine everything they left out just how it would be in the movie b/c you've seen everything before. kind of cuts out some of the imagination stuff, though.

I beg to differ greatly. I think reading the book before you see the movie helps because you can see what they've changed. When you see the movie after reading the book you can determine whether or not your imagination matches with that of the director. Take the Harry Potter series for example: after reading the book and then seeing the movie you have more of a right to criticize the actors performance, special effects, etc. The same with Atlantis(excellent book by the way. Highly recommend) or Dead Poet's Society(also an excellent book although Hollywood changed the ending). You compare the movie with what you've read and adjust your perspective accordingly.

I HATED the entire LotR series until I was forced to read the book in English Lit. After reading Fellowship of the Ring I became hooked... the movie made much more sense after reading the book, because the movie was kind of confusing, due to the material left out. I did read the Two Towers before the movie though, and I wish I would have waited until after the movie. During the whole thing I was criticizing it and trying to remember everthing that was left out, instead of just enjoying the movie. (But the movie was awesome!)(Especially Legolas!)

i think the whole "Book First or Movie First?" debate can be solved on a case by case basis. for instance, i read The Lord of the Rings before seeing any of the movies, and i'm glad i did. by reading the books, i already knew the little details that are not focused on or explained well in the movies, or not mentioned at all. i found it helpful to know who's related to who and how (heck, 3/4 of the last book is focused on that). it cleared up a lot of confusion that i would have had. however, this sort of thing isn't true for all books/film adaptions, and of course, personal preference can change everything.

Definitely needs to be handled on a case-by-case. Aubrey is right for TTT. For The Princess Bride, however... the movie is FAR superior to the book.

Yeah Seth, but that's mostly just due to Andre the Giant's awesome performance :P .

I was thinking more b/c of the swordplay. Saying "he stepped back off the cliff" in a book just doesn't have the same effect as watching someone step off the cliff, y'know? And the albino... and the Death Machine thingie. And "My name is Inigo Mantoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

*Seth realizes this thread is way off track :blink: