HP vs. LotR - Choose ONE and only ONE

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Malia Kawaguchi <malia at q...> wrote:
> > Which one would you recommend?  Now you will have to make
> > a choice.  Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings.  Only
> > one movie.  That's all she will see.  Pick one.
> 
> Depends entirely on the friend.  

I agree.  People are so entirely different. 

For example, I would never ever recommend LotR to my sister b'c I 
know she's not a fantasy fan, and she espially hates the slimy 
grotesque.  If there's ever a time in a movie when I say, "Eww, 
gross!" I just know it's not for her.  Well, she did see LotR and 
HATED it.  She's the only person I know who felt that way, but there 
it is.  Mind you, she fell asleep twice during the movie.  How?  I 
have no clue.  When I was watching it, I asked my brother, how on 
earth could she fall asleep during this?

My sister wasn't too fond of HP either, although she liked the books 
well enough.  Her gripe with the movie, though, wasn't that it was 
bad, but that it was too true to the book and was too long.  But 
she'd sit through that (or the horrendous 2.5 hour "Vanilla Sky") 
twice before seeing LotR again.

Haha.

I for one quite liked LotR... more than I think I expected to.  I 
thought it was very well done and I really like the fantastical 
element to it.  But I certainly don't think it's the best movie this 
year.

> p.s. For what it's worth, in my view Fellowship is the better
> movie, Harry is more enjoyable.  It doesn't get clearer than
> that in my head.

I completely agree.  LotR was well-done, or better done.  But HP was 
more enjoyable.  And as 99% of my friends would rather see an 
enjoyable film than a "good" one, I'd recommend HP.

Dawn

PS:  I DO think that HP books will become classics.  I don't know 
whether or not the movies will.  Nor do I know whether or not the 
LotR movies will.  I think many of the people going to see LotR are 
LotR fans and I just don't think that's enough to make it the "Star 
Wars" of our generation.  Star Wars was just a totally new type of 
movie at the time, using brand new special effects and all (I for one 
thing the story of the first Star Wars (episode 4) movie was horribly 
boring).  LotR has great effects, but nothing earth-shatteringly 
new.  Although I must say that I loved how they made the Hobbits 
looks smaller than everyone else (even if somewhat inconsitantly).