Voldemort isn't thinking

[QUOTE="Wolls"]Yes i did i just didnt think that needed saying :PJandurin

Also, films > books? lol wut?Cherokee_Jack

Harry Potter movies > Lord of the Rings movies. :)Jandurin

Oh no you didn't...

There good books :D, also you can play games while listening to the CD :PWolls

Oh no you didn't...

LikeHaterade

[QUOTE="Wolls"]Yes i did i just didnt think that needed saying :PJandurin

Also, films > books? lol wut?Cherokee_Jack

[QUOTE="Wolls"]There good books :D, also you can play games while listening to the CD :PJandurin

Oh no you didn't...

LikeHaterade

to be fair, the LotR books are on an entirely different level than the HP books.Jandurin

Fair enough; but how about the acting in the LotR movies being light years better than Harry Potter? Or maybe it's just my opinion...

EDIT: I'm not being facetious btw.

if you liked that, you'll love this: Harry Potter movies > Lord of the Rings movies. :)Jandurin

OK, it's now obvious that we can never agree. On anything.

[QUOTE="Jandurin"]to be fair, the LotR books are on an entirely different level than the HP books.LikeHaterade

Fair enough; but how about the acting in the LotR movies being light years better than Harry Potter? Or maybe it's just my opinion...

I disagree, the kids in Harry potter mostly suck but the teachers are played by amazing actors like Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Brenden Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jim Broadbent.

[QUOTE="LikeHaterade"]

[QUOTE="Jandurin"]to be fair, the LotR books are on an entirely different level than the HP books.Film-Guy

Fair enough; but how about the acting in the LotR movies being light years better than Harry Potter? Or maybe it's just my opinion...

I disagree, the kids in Harry potter mostly suck but the teachers are played by amazing actors like Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Brenden Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jim Broadbent.

Alan Rickman was not at his best in the last film.

Oh, and Michael Gambon has just done a poor job as Dumbledore, from what I've seen.

I respectfully disagree. The Fellowship of The Ring in it's movie adaptation is nothing short of fantastic and Philosopher's Stone's adaptation, though the best in the movie series (IMO), is inferior to LOTR.

flordeceres

[QUOTE="Jandurin"]to be fair, the LotR books are on an entirely different level than the HP books.LikeHaterade

Fair enough; but how about the acting in the LotR movies being light years better than Harry Potter? Or maybe it's just my opinion...

EDIT: I'm not being facetious btw.

I disagree, the kids in Harry potter mostly suck but the teachers are played by amazing actors like Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Brenden Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jim Broadbent.

Film-Guy

Hm, good point. Nevertheless, I don't recall any particularly bad acting in any of the LotR movies. There for I still believe that LotR acting > Harry Potter acting.

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

[QUOTE="LikeHaterade"]

Fair enough; but how about the acting in the LotR movies being light years better than Harry Potter? Or maybe it's just my opinion...

Cherokee_Jack

I disagree, the kids in Harry potter mostly suck but the teachers are played by amazing actors like Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Brenden Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jim Broadbent.

Alan Rickman was not at his best in the last film.

Oh, and Michael Gambon has just done a poor job as Dumbledore, from what I've seen.

They are still really good actors overall though. The cast in the harry potter movies is amazing, shame they pick such average at best kids for the most part and the best actors are so underused.

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

I disagree, the kids in Harry potter mostly suck but the teachers are played by amazing actors like Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Brenden Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jim Broadbent.

LikeHaterade

Hm, good point. Nevertheless, I don't recall any particularly bad acting in any of the LotR movies. There for I still believe that LotR acting > Harry Potter acting.

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

I disagree, the kids in Harry potter mostly suck but the teachers are played by amazing actors like Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Brenden Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jim Broadbent.

LikeHaterade

Hm, good point. Nevertheless, I don't recall any particularly bad acting in any of the LotR movies. There for I still believe that LotR acting > Harry Potter acting.

There wasnt any bad acting I remember in LOTR, heck I think Elija Wood is pretty underrated. I saw him in Everything is Iluminated and he was good.

Acting is only a small part of either movie, tbqh. It's more about the story and how the story and characters are portrayed and teh fancy graphics. Also, the acting in HP is rather good. Also, some of the acting in LotR is complete ass.Jandurin

Well, acting to me is a bigger part to a movie. I want to see a movie that's believable and that is done so through the acting and less of teh fancy graphics. IMO, the kids' acting in Harry Potter was God awful. I don't recall anything to bad in LotR in terms of acting though.

[QUOTE="LikeHaterade"]

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

I disagree, the kids in Harry potter mostly suck but the teachers are played by amazing actors like Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Brenden Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jim Broadbent.

Film-Guy

Hm, good point. Nevertheless, I don't recall any particularly bad acting in any of the LotR movies. There for I still believe that LotR acting > Harry Potter acting.

There wasnt any bad acting I remember in LOTR, heck I think Elija Wood is pretty underrated. I saw him in Everything is Iluminated and he was good.

gimli was rather lame, the queen of the wood elves or whatever was lame, boromir was lame faramir too :( Considering the source material, of course.Jandurin

Whaaat!? Gimli was perfect! Galadriel's elegant, yet sinister side was captured exeptionally. Every character in that movie was absolutely amazing considering the source material. It's all opinions though. It's not like your wrong or anything. I just strongly disagree with you. :P

Though I must admit some of the acting on the Harry Potter films were excellent. Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman blew my mind.

Still, Viggo Mortensen, Ian Mckelen and Elijah Wood also performed very well.

So much good acting in only 2 series D:

[QUOTE="Jandurin"]Acting is only a small part of either movie, tbqh. It's more about the story and how the story and characters are portrayed and teh fancy graphics. Also, the acting in HP is rather good. Also, some of the acting in LotR is complete ass.LikeHaterade

Well, acting to me is a bigger part to a movie. I want to see a movie that's believable and that is done so through the acting and less of teh fancy graphics. IMO, the kids' acting in Harry Potter was God awful. I don't recall anything to bad in LotR in terms of acting though.

[QUOTE="Jandurin"]gimli was rather lame, the queen of the wood elves or whatever was lame, boromir was lame faramir too :( Considering the source material, of course.LikeHaterade

Whaaat!? Gimli was perfect! Galadriel's elegant, yet sinister side was captured exeptionally. Every character in that movie was absolutely amazing considering the source material. It's all opinions though. It's not like your wrong or anything. I just strongly disagree with you. :P

If it were like that then this would be another "hit man" movie.:P

Though i do agree with you, Voldemort isn't thinking at all, even magic is addictive.

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

[QUOTE="AcronymnsFTW"] Despite all those best sellers, getting kids back into reading again and having many successful merchandise and movie contracts.avatar_genius

Your point being? So what if she is popular, she is a pretty good storyteller but as a writer she is not one of the best around by far. Writers like George R.R Martin, Gene Wolfe, Cormac Mccarthy, Jose Saramago, and Kazou Ishiguro are much better. Heck even Stephen King, his series The Dark Tower is much better than Harry Potter imo. She just sells more.

Dark Tower is not better than Harry Potter.

anasbouzid

i suppose it's not the acting i'm disappointed with, it's what they made of the character. Which is why I like HP more. The changes they made to the characters were for the better, in most cases, or at least not a lot worse. The changes to LotR irritated me to no end. I suppose, in the end, I was too much of a LotR fan to enjoy the LotR movies and the changes to the fullest >_>Jandurin

I thought the character development was astounding. They showed Frodo being gripped by the ring more and more very well. Also Aragorn's character development. How he went from the ranger...

To the king of freakin Gondor

EDIT: When you said "changes", I assumed you were referring to character development. That was my bad. I think some of the changes from book to film were necessary to fit the film though. All in all, I thought it was the best a LotR movie could have ever been.

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[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

I disagree, the kids in Harry potter mostly suck but the teachers are played by amazing actors like Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Brenden Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jim Broadbent.

Jandurin

Hm, good point. Nevertheless, I don't recall any particularly bad acting in any of the LotR movies. There for I still believe that LotR acting > Harry Potter acting.

But strongly DISAGREE on Boromir.nocoolnamejim

[QUOTE="LikeHaterade"]

[QUOTE="Jandurin"]gimli was rather lame, the queen of the wood elves or whatever was lame, boromir was lame faramir too :( Considering the source material, of course.Jandurin

Whaaat!? Gimli was perfect! Galadriel's elegant, yet sinister side was captured exeptionally. Every character in that movie was absolutely amazing considering the source material. It's all opinions though. It's not like your wrong or anything. I just strongly disagree with you. :P

The problem with HP series is when it's started it was soarts of like a children books (philosopher's stone, chamber of secrets) and as children books, the series was really good. that's why it gained so much attention. But as the series progressed, the books matured into "grown up" books (which is the right thing to do).And unfortunately, as "grown up" books, the series sucked.

DEFINITELY agree on Faramir. They made him look like a first class jerk for the most part, totally different than the book portrayal.nocoolnamejim

FARAMIR was not amazing, they changed his character :argh:Jandurin

I do agree with you there. Faramir was an ass to Frodo.

[QUOTE="nocoolnamejim"]But strongly DISAGREE on Boromir.Jandurin

especially since even Gandalf was.Cherokee_Jack

[QUOTE="nocoolnamejim"]DEFINITELY agree on Faramir. They made him look like a first class jerk for the most part, totally different than the book portrayal.Jandurin

What do you mean that you don't like how he died? That was kind of a requirement. nocoolnamejim

You mean I wrote that long, stirring defense of the character for nothing? How disappointing.nocoolnamejim

[QUOTE="nocoolnamejim"]You mean I wrote that long, stirring defense of the character for nothing? How disappointing.Jandurin

The answer to the original question is that most everything is reversable by magic as long as the person in question isnt dead for a long time. Also everything can be blocked or rebounded by magic except Avada Kadavra (or whatever). So the most efficient and easyiest way to kill someone in the wizarding world is with Avada Kadavra.anasbouzid

[QUOTE="anasbouzid"]The answer to the original question is that most everything is reversable by magic as long as the person in question isnt dead for a long time. Also everything can be blocked or rebounded by magic except Avada Kadavra (or whatever). So the most efficient and easyiest way to kill someone in the wizarding world is with Avada Kadavra.Jandurin

Omg, what a cheese...

[QUOTE="Wolls"]Yes i did i just didnt think that needed saying :PJandurin

Also, films > books? lol wut?Cherokee_Jack

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]especially since even Gandalf was.Jandurin

I know Gandalf was tempted in the book. I'm just saying that they felt it was important to keep the audience aware of the fact that the Ring was an extremely powerful corrupting influence, and having a minor character randomly be unaffected by the Ring would not have been conducive to that.

[QUOTE="AcronymnsFTW"][QUOTE="avatar_genius"]

JK Rowling isn't the best writer.

Jandurin

[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="AcronymnsFTW"] Despite all those best sellers, getting kids back into reading again and having many successful merchandise and movie contracts.SoraX64

Her book The Host is actually pretty good though, I think she has potential, she just chooses to waste it on twilight.

Her book The Host is actually pretty good though, I think she has potential, she just chooses to waste it on twilight.Film-Guy

if you read the books most wizards arent familiar with muggle technology.

Why do you need gas when you have a broom?

Why study anatomy when all you need to do to heal someone is wave your wand?

Why learn about guns when a death curse from a wand is a sure thing?

Or perhaps they should stop making such boring movies.

if you read the books most wizards arent familiar with muggle technology.

Why do you need gas when you have a broom?

Why study anatomy when all you need to do to heal someone is wave your wand?

Why learn about guns when a death curse from a wand is a sure thing?

mrbojangles25

Why doesntHarry use a Sniper Rifle on Voldemort? Does he really assume Voldemort can cast a killing curse on him from two miles away while Voldemort has a hole in his face?