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Let me tell you about a little movie titled I, Robot.. |
I liked
I Robot.
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I will say, you should watch the show before slagging it. I personally think the Transformers movies look abysmal, But I don't go around dumping on them because I haven't watched any of them.
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As Ann Landers or her sister once wrote, "you don't have to stick your head into a cement mixer to know you won't like it." I saw enough of the "acting" and "writing" and "directing" in the review clips to know that this series was terrible. I don't need to waste ten hours of my life to verify it. Besides, I could see just in the promotional material, that they had completely changed Galadriel from Tolkien's version. She was the main character in
Rings of Power and they couldn't even get her right.
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I grumble about The Hobbit movies, but buddy, I sat through all three of those bombs.
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But they weren't bombs. They rate well on IMDB and each grossed about a $billion dollars worldwide. In comparison to the
Lord of the Rings they were definitely wanting, but that would be true with most other fantasy movies as well.
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I must question your taste.
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Why
must you? Why not just accept that my taste is different than yours?
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On the one hand, the movies barely worked as an adaptation. They had none of the feel of the book and even the story was buried under so many subplots and action scenes that it didn't feel like an adaptation of the book at all.
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You're right, but it still doesn't mean they were bombs. If they made
The Hobbit properly (according to the book) it would have had the tone of a kid's story (like the original). But, obviously, they tried to turn it into
Lord of the Rings 2. I would have preferred they hadn't done it that way but (for what it was) it wasn't horrible (in my opinion, at least).[/quote]
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But then, The Shining is a brilliant movie that similarly doesn't follow the book.
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I'll have to take your word for it. I haven't read the book or seen the movie. Although I did spend four days at the Stanley Hotel's meeting hall, getting certified to do single-mode fiber optic splicing, in the early 90s (something I never used in the real world).
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