Overrated movies/TV shows/books. They loved it, you hated it.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

But "I thought it sucked" could = "I hated it"

Very true. But not all answers have been qualified that way.

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

lol I'll take that to mean that you liked it.

Well taken.

I'll admit it -- I'm an extreme Tolkien geek and have been since junior high. I've read Lord of the Rings at least once every couple of years, well over 20 times now. Regularly re-read The Silmarillion and The Hobbit, too. I have multiple copies of The Lord of the Rings, including this one:



I've taught classes and led discussion groups on LotR. This full-sized movie poster is framed and hanging in my office:



I have the director's cuts of all the movies. While there were places where I had to deal with the movies departing from the books, I thought P Jackson did an awesome job of adapting the books.

So yeah, I liked them.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Very true. But not all answers have been qualified that way.

Well taken.

I'll admit it -- I'm an extreme Tolkien geek and have been since junior high. I've read Lord of the Rings at least once every couple of years, well over 20 times now. Regularly re-read The Silmarillion and The Hobbit, too. I have multiple copies of The Lord of the Rings, including this one:



I've taught classes and led discussion groups on LotR. This full-sized movie poster is framed and hanging in my office:



I have the director's cuts of all the movies. While there were places where I had to deal with the movies departing from the books, I thought P Jackson did an awesome job of adapting the books.

So yeah, I liked them.

Ditto.

Now, my question is, how many of your students took the short cut and just watched the movies instead of reading ?

Missing the Tom Bombadill part is usually key, HA!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Now, my question is, how many of your students took the short cut and just watched the movies instead of reading ?

Missing the Tom Bombadill part is usually key, HA!

Ah, Tom Bombadil. I did miss him in the movie, but I understand why he was left out.

I couldn't tell you about any students. The discussion groups have always involved reading the books a few chapters at a time and discussing them. The classes have been one time things I was asked to do on specific occasions, not ongoing classes, like a class I've done on finding God in LotR, Narnia and Harry Potter. Those classes have tended to have people who'd read all the books, read some of the books or never read the books. (But I hope they wanted to read the books afterward.)