Star Wars vs Lord Of The Rings

unclebruce

I don't wanna be a Jedi, I don't wanna be a Jedi, you better not try and make me a Jedi, you won't like me as a freak'n Jedi!!!

Last year on H20 Focus drew my attention to reading Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. I'd long appreciated the artwork and finally got arround to reading the book a few months ago. The wife read it as a kid but the only books we had growing up were printed in a dark brooklyn tower.

Two nights ago I saw the first in the movie trilogy and am convinced that George Lucas ripped off, stole, yes - plaugerised Tolkiens work to create that boring american sitcom Star Wars I,II,III, IV, V etc etc etc... ~ boredom x INFINITY.

Simon please make me a hobbit instead of a Jedi... please! Simple Simon met a hobbit crying to be fair ..

unclebruce

PS: All you tax dodging bludgers who recon i should just stop posting .. piss off .. i ain't finished playing funny buggers yet

ThiChi

He ripped off Star Trek too..........

zerubberballs

ThiChi,

Star Wars, Star Trek, Lost in Space, Mork from Mindy, My Flavored Martian .. all American sci-fi is the same, watered down blanderized middleclass American moralistic bilge and happy endings.

unclebruce dying for an unhappy ending

ThiChi

Not all happy endings! Kirk's son dies in episode 3....

But really, you can’t compare the trilogy of LOTR. I read it some 20 years ago, saw the movie last Saturday and now will re-read this epic adventure!

Mum

Have you heard of Lemony Snicket? No happy endings, I hear.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. - Horace

I have learned to live each day as it comes and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. - Dorothy Dix

zerubberballs

Thankx ThiChi,

I've sat through a few episodes of Star Trek in the wee small hours and to me all the aliens look like judgmental yanks with various skin ailments .. carbuncle heads from ajax7 and so forth .. at least Red Dwarf shows Rimmer on the dunny and stuff. (although the "horsemen of the apocalypse" episode might have been ripped off from the works of Christ via mad John of Patmoss)

unclebruce, who'd rather be a puffed up hologram than a jedi kniget

zerubberballs

G'day mum,

Jeremy Cricket? That Walt Disney insect the Watchtower bible scholars condemed for preaching "let your conscience be your guide"?

unclesnigat

ashitaka

"unclebruce dying for an unhappy ending"

COOL. Me too. It's about time that people smashed the cliche'd shit they call movies. I hope to someday make a real film, no bullshit included.

I love Lucas, but his screenwriting abilities are terrible. Can't write dialouge to save his life. Plot line isn't bad, though, you have to admit.

As for LOTR, I love the books, and the books period. And yes, Lucas did borrow from many different places.

The movie was horrible in my eyes, but I already talked about that.

Star Wars wins, but not because of the dialouge.

zerubberballs

The mighty dollar rules and most American films cater to the lowest common 4 year old. I think all the plotlines are terrible, they borrow from ancient myth and legend but water them down into baby slop and girl vomit lol. Thank God for spagettii westerns and euro trash. .. but I gotta admit Pulp Fiction was cool. ;)

Enjoy your treky knighthood ashitika, unclebruce.

PS: A friend of mine says he saw a movie review a few weeks back pointing out in minute detail the way George Lucas plaugerized Tolkien. StarWhatevers have never interested me but I'd like to see the comparisons drawn ... Saruman = Dolt Vader?

ashitaka

Spaghetti westerns, aye!

Along with David Lean flicks, and Bergman, and Welles.

ashi

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