The Lord of The Rings vs Star Wars (Can you decide?)

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Blame George Lucas. He can't direct actors for sh*t. Liam Neeson, Ewan MacGregor, Natlie Portman, Samuel L Jackson, Ian McDiarmand - all established as fine actors themselves and all come across like bad soap opera actors in those movies.

Plus there's only so much you can do with sh*tty dialog.

worlock77

New Hope waasn't bad...

It wasn't, but it was also 35 years ago, and in the two decades or so between that and 'the Phantom Menace' Lucas seem to lose whatever abilities as a director he had. Plus on the original movies he had other writers working with him and people around him will to call him on bad ideas, thus helping to filter his crap. For the prequels he had a bunch of yes-men around him.

Exactly. You need people close to you to tell you something's sh!t. His ego, understandably, became too big in the prequels.

Best movies: Lord of the Rings. Those movies are amazing, albeit Fellowship left a bit to be desired. The battle of Helms deep is one of the most amazing, if not THE most amazing battles shown in cinema and the giant battle throughout Return is fantastic as well.

Best books: Harry Potter. Sorry, but as much as I love the Lord of the Rings movies I seriously can't bring myself to trudge through the horribly written books. Tolkien was amazing for the world he created, but he was such a horrendously dull writer. The Harry Potter books on the other hand had me hooked everytime. People can hate on the series all they want but the books are fantastic (and only get better with each installment) and it is probably the most important book series to come out in my life time.

Best games: Star Wars. Really, the Star Wars series is the ONLY ONE of these three that have put out even remotely good games unfortunately. The Lord of the Rings universe could be amazing but they never seem to pull it off for whatever reason...

Star Wars is much better!

Best books: Harry Potter. Sorry, but as much as I love the Lord of the Rings movies I seriously can't bring myself to trudge through the horribly written books.

LostProphetFLCL

only a die hard star wars fans wouldnt feel it was cheap.lightleggy

If a movie feeling "cheap" creates this much of a stink for you, I don't think you can ever watch a sci-fi movie past the 90s. Or stuff from the classical Hollywood era made on budgets of a few million. Or the silent era, where one million dollars financed ten productions. And yes there are silent films out there that I would put above both LoTR and SW.

Die hard fans and those who had Star Wars in their childhood can agree on just how inluencial those movies are. For everyone else, way to go against the grain.

Star Wars Original Trilogy>Lord of the Rings>Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Best games: Star Wars. Really, the Star Wars series is the ONLY ONE of these three that have put out even remotely good games unfortunately. The Lord of the Rings universe could be amazing but they never seem to pull it off for whatever reason...

LostProphetFLCL

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Best books: Harry Potter. Sorry, but as much as I love the Lord of the Rings movies I seriously can't bring myself to trudge through the horribly written books.

Teenaged

Thy cruel bastard!

But... The Lord of the Rings...

Best games: Star Wars. Really, the Star Wars series is the ONLY ONE of these three that have put out even remotely good games unfortunately. The Lord of the Rings universe could be amazing but they never seem to pull it off for whatever reason...LostProphetFLCL

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds was just Age of Empires with new skins (why does a droid army need food? Only the SW:GB team knows), and while Empire at War had amazing space battles, the game absolutely fell apart on the ground.

Battle for Middle Earth was pretty good (even though the balance was completely screwed: Rohan >>> everyone else, once they got even one cavalry unit rolling), but War of the Ring was where it was at: it had balance, excellent heroes, a manageable economy, generous unit cap... and Helm's Deep, of course.

lord of the rings for movies. I find the lack of good lord of the ring video games disturbing

Star Wars definitely for me. I don't like the Lord of the Rings movies.

One film to rule them all

The Lord of the Ring

Twilight.

Is it franchise vs franchise, or movies vs movies? Either side can get stomped just depends what we're judging on.

I don't care for either.

Twilight.

arad96

Lol whilst it's bait/a joke, I found the first book/film to be okay. I read the next two and was appalled with their awful-ness. CBA with the other one.

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Best books: Harry Potter. Sorry, but as much as I love the Lord of the Rings movies I seriously can't bring myself to trudge through the horribly written books.

Teenaged

I am sorry but the writing is just bad. Wayyyyy booorrrinnggg...

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Best books: Harry Potter. Sorry, but as much as I love the Lord of the Rings movies I seriously can't bring myself to trudge through the horribly written books.

LostProphetFLCL

I am sorry but the writing is just bad. Wayyyyy booorrrinnggg...

Choose the way you want to die.

LOTR!

LotR has better characters but I like the setting of SW a bit better.

wtf how is star wars losing? You guys aren't even proper nerds.hummer700

I, for one, take pride in that.

wtf how is star wars losing? You guys aren't even proper nerds.hummer700

LOTR = cIass

/semi-joking

...but I give the edge to Star Wars due to the large amount of quality expanded universe content.Commander-Gree

I tried reading some of the new books, but it became clear that with the multiple authors writing novels with wildly unequal quality, I'd stop enjoying them as I got more critical of them.

I'll enjoy both of them, thanks

wtf how is star wars losing? You guys aren't even proper nerds.hummer700

Live Long and Prosper ;)

Lord of the Rings for me. Star Wars movies are overrated. Only good movie was revenge of the sith.

Live Long and Prosper ;)

rpDrummer2012

Lord of the rings - not even close imo

oh and the acting in both star wars trilogies is pretty bad

I'm tempted to say Star Wars because I prefer sci-fi over fantasy.

BUT the LOTR movies were better.

Since when was Lord of the Rings for "nerds"? I thought only Star Wars were for nerds.

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[QUOTE="Teenaged"]Choose the way you want to die. :x

worlock77

I am sorry but the writing is just bad. Wayyyyy booorrrinnggg...

Choose the way you want to die.

Erotic asphyxiation!

Lord of the Rings were much more deep movies while the original Star War trilogy felt more like a fun sci-fi adventure movie.