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I realise I might be in the minority with LOTR though as Mrs Arkay went to see the first one six times at the cinema. SIX TIMES! It's any wonder I married her at all.
I don't think it's a bad film but it's nowhere near a great film.
24 really didn't do it for me either. Got about 3 episodes in before baling out.
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Only seen it once,which is a good indication.
Dexter was a good premise and even started quite well and could've been a truly great show but turned into a cartoon of itself very quickly.
Started watching Dexter when we got Netflix a couple of years ago, but it went rapidly downhill after the first series.
24, on the other hand, I thoroughly enjoyed. Not so much for the show itself, the plots were ridiculous, but TDA Jnr, who had seen the series first time round had come to live with us out here whilst he was sorting out his own place. We had a routine of a couple of episodes twice a week with a large mug of tea each and a family sized bag of Maltesers ready for the second installment and we actually got through all 192 episodes during the year. Happy days!
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I remember when I first watched the deer hunter. 45 minutes in and all that had happened was they were getting pissed at a wedding. I was on the verge of caliing Blockbuster and telling them they'd given me the wrong DVD.
Ah, perhaps this a disagreement over form then? What can work in one (literature) might not work in another (film) regardless of how faithful an adaptation it is, for me at least. My main gripes with them were that it felt episodic, they were overly long (ANY film over two hours has me questioning the writing) and the third one had about six different endings, all more sentimental than the one before. Perhaps having not read the books left me at a disadvantage in watching the film in the same way that having read War of the Worlds, I thought the Tom Cruise adaptation was a load of old tripe despite being very popular with others (and managing to clock in under two hoursCan't agree on that!
The Hobbit and LOTR were required reading when I was young and even though it took me three years to read LOTR, I loved the books. A coupe of lame attempts had been made to put the stories on the screen, but Peter Jackson's epics were true to the books in every respect and hugely enjoyable, provided that you like Tolkein.
Coincidentally, TDA Jnr gave me a box set of The Hobbit recently and I had earmarked this evening to settle down with the third installment.
).I realise I might be in the minority with LOTR though as Mrs Arkay went to see the first one six times at the cinema. SIX TIMES! It's any wonder I married her at all.
Some of the greatest epic films of yesteryear were much, much longer than two hours. Gone With The Wind, How the West Was Won, Ben Hur, The Greatest Story Ever Told. LOTR certainly is an epic tale and knowing the books well puts a different light on things.Ah, perhaps this a disagreement over form then? What can work in one (literature) might not work in another (film) regardless of how faithful an adaptation it is, for me at least. My main gripes with them were that it felt episodic, they were overly long (ANY film over two hours has me questioning the writing) and the third one had about six different endings, all more sentimental than the one before. Perhaps having not read the books left me at a disadvantage in watching the film in the same way that having read War of the Worlds, I thought the Tom Cruise adaptation was a load of old tripe despite being very popular with others (and managing to clock in under two hours
I realise I might be in the minority with LOTR though as Mrs Arkay went to see the first one six times at the cinema. SIX TIMES! It's any wonder I married her at all.
Couldn't agree more
I don't think it's a bad film but it's nowhere near a great film.
24 really didn't do it for me either. Got about 3 episodes in before baling out.
Taxi Driver.
Overrated dreary shite.
Overrated dreary shite.
Only seen it once,which is a good indication.
Same here. And the same with the new Keifer Sutherland thing on Netflix, Designated Survivor. A couple of episodes was enough to see it's not for me.
Dexter was a good premise and even started quite well and could've been a truly great show but turned into a cartoon of itself very quickly.
Started watching Dexter when we got Netflix a couple of years ago, but it went rapidly downhill after the first series.
24, on the other hand, I thoroughly enjoyed. Not so much for the show itself, the plots were ridiculous, but TDA Jnr, who had seen the series first time round had come to live with us out here whilst he was sorting out his own place. We had a routine of a couple of episodes twice a week with a large mug of tea each and a family sized bag of Maltesers ready for the second installment and we actually got through all 192 episodes during the year. Happy days!
