Best Lotr/hobbit movies

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Ah, but wouldn't you have liked to be a fly on the wall during their brainstorming sessions?

No. I'm surrounded by rampant idiocy and egomania on a daily basis. I don't need exposure to more.

Originally Posted by Nerwen

If you mean "larger nerd culture", I fear this is merely the snowballing effect of something coming to be seen as "cool thing to bash". I mean, rather than it being the case of each and every nerd independently casting a thoughtful, critical eye over the movies and finding them appreciably lacking in crucial cinematic and narrative qualities.

There might be something to that. However, the nerds had the opportunity to see the films for themselves and I've never known nerds to be shy with their opinions on whatever topic. I think there is just a hostile consensus against the films.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

No. I'm surrounded by rampant idiocy and egomania on a daily basis. I don't need exposure to more.

But the gold dwarf statue/dragon trap! Surely you'd have liked to witness the creative ferment that led to that glorious invention? No?

There might be something to that. However, the nerds had the opportunity to see the films for themselves and I've never known nerds to be shy with their opinions on whatever topic. I think there is just a hostile consensus against the films.

Indeed, but how many of these people were yelling "BOX OFFICE! BOX OFFICE! HEART AND SOUL!!! APPENDICES!!!!" back in the day? Quite a few, I'd bet. Saving our august presences, a lot of nerds are really rather dumb, you know. I mean I don't think they tend to be all that good at forming their own opinions in the first place.

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

But the gold dwarf statue/dragon trap! Surely you'd have liked to witness the creative ferment that led to that glorious invention? No?

Decency prohibits me to name that particular kind of ferment that I think that process could be best likened to.

a lot of nerds are really rather dumb, you know. I mean I don't think they tend to be all that good at forming their own opinions in the first place.

But that holds true for every topic across human history.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

Decency prohibits me to name that particular kind of ferment that I think that process could be best likened to.



But that holds true for every topic across human history.

In a way... but you must know the particular nerd-fanboy mentality I'm talking about. We're not talking about some genuinely complex issue that most people couldn't be expected to really understand, after all- it's just whether or not they liked a given movie. What I'm saying is, I don't really feel like patting myself on the back just because nerd consensus happens to have swung my way for the moment, since I just don't think it means much.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Best movies?

1) FR
2 (tie) TT, RK

That's the end of the list; since "best" is the superlative of "good", one can't include movies about which there is nothing good. Perhaps if the variable term were "least abysmal....." or "descending order of suckitude".......

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

Best movies?

1) FR
2 (tie) TT, RK

That's the end of the list; since "best" is the superlative of "good", one can't include movies about which there is nothing good. Perhaps if the variable term were "least abysmal....." or "descending order of suckitude".......

Okay- what's your descending order of suckitude, then?

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Okay- what's your descending order of suckitude, then?

∞) AUJ
∞+1 (tie) DOS, BOFA