HP vs. LotR - Choose ONE and only ONE

[boyblue_mn]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "lil_mudblood" <lil_mudblood at y...> wrote:
> Also, 10 years from now, the Lord of the Rings will be 
> remembered as a part of a CLASSIC TRILOGY like Star Wars, 
. Back to the Future, Indiana Jones.
> 
> The first Harry Potter movie is just a regular commercial movie.
> it will not become a classic.  Honestly, it will be forgotten a
> few years from now.
> 
> IT WILL BE A SHAME FOR MY FRIEND TO MISS OUT A LANDMARK CLASSIC.

I don't know if I would go so far as to say the first HP movie will
be a classic, but I think it will endure far beyond i'st immediate
popularity. 

Also, since the HP movie series of seven, isn't 
finished yet, we can't be sure which direction it will go. Now
that they know it has huge box office appeal they may put more
effort into the quality and appearence of the next movies in the
series. 

I'm told they are going to use a different special effect
company, and I think they have probably had enough feedback to 
know that they made the first movie way too short. It should have
been 3 hrs. minimum. You can put a lot of movie magic into an
additional half hour of movie. I wouldn't have minded it going
over 3 hrs.

As far as the book series, I honestly believe this will be a set
of classic books that will endure like the adventures of Sherlock
Holms (probably spelled wrong but you know who I mean). Certainly,
Lord of the Rings has already been around long enough to establish
that it has the potential to endure over time. I think that kids
reading the HP books today, will end up turning their kids and
grandkids on to the books. It will become a bedtime story classic.

I've read the first 3 books 5 time and have read the 4th book 3 
times. That's very rare for me or for any book. Rowlings has a very 
compact style of writing; lots of stuff happen in not very many
pages, and she still manages to keep the writing very vivid and
captivating. I used to love science fiction, and I've read sci-fi
by some of the best authors in the field, but I rarely read the 
stories more than once. So for me to be so captivated by the books
that I can read them over and over, says that there is something
magical about Rowlings writings. Even when I read them over again,
the story is so vivid that I get caught up in the story and forget
that I already know what is going to happen.

The short version is, I think it's too early to tell what will 
happen with the HP movie series, and I am convinced that the books
will endure for a long time. True the immediate media hype will die
down, but the books themselves will endure.

Of course, I can easily see the LoR series of movies becoming a
classic.