Movie Franchise - Quarter Finals - Lord of the Rings vs Godfather

[SasaS]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

I bet you're a fucking 'HOOT' in the pub you. 

Maybe I am, maybe I am not. If I knew what that means, I could tell you.

[Tony Moanero]

I enjoy SasaS’ contribution to the GF. He reminds me of this fella

 

[Baltar]

Love both but LOTR wins this for me. Godfather 3 was pants while each of the LOTR movies were a work of art.

[SasaS]

4 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

I enjoy SasaS’ contribution to the GF. He reminds me of this fella

 

That's not fair. You don't go to the threads where I do my best work.

[Tony Moanero]

1 minute ago, SasaS said:

That's not fair. You don't go to the threads where I do my best work.

Which ones are they?

[SasaS]

1 minute ago, Tony Moanero said:

Which ones are they?

The ones you don't go to.

[Evelyn Tentions]

1 hour ago, SasaS said:

They are motion pictures. Talking motion picters.

Filums

[NoelM]

This one could be the final, I love LOTR but Godfather 1 and 2 are my two favourite movies of all so they win.

[Tony Moanero]

Easy decision - The Godfather. I didn’t enjoy the Lord of the Rings films, whereas I rewatch The Godfather: Part I & II, from time to time. That said, neither would make my top 20 or 30 favourite films list.

[Bjornebye]

Godfather taking names here. Big contender. 

[Code]

 Tough one, had to go with LOTR. 

[mattyq]

6 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Why not, they both picked up Oscars for Best Picture.

Watched Godfather I & II over Christmas and they were both still fresh and just brilliant films

If LoTR was on I wouldn't bother watching any of them

Seen them enough times and they were great but I'm just not interested in them any more

Still annoys me that he got the Shire so wrong and no Tom Bombadil

[Juniper]

26 minutes ago, mattyq said:

Watched Godfather I & II over Christmas and they were both still fresh and just brilliant films

If LoTR was on I wouldn't bother watching any of them

Seen them enough times and they were great but I'm just not interested in them any more

Still annoys me that he got the Shire so wrong and no Tom Bombadil

Always imagine Tom Bombadil as a Brian Blessed type. Not sure a Merry guy hoping around singing songs would have changed the tone of the early part of the film though. Can see why he didn’t make the cut. 

 

The 300 or so pages up to Bree or even Rivendell is almost a whole film in itself though. Love that part of LOTR. Shame they missed off Tom, the elves, being stalked by the Barrow-Wights, getting to Frodo’s new house, the bit with Farmer Maggot and the Black Riders making more appearances...etc.

 

Still can’t decide on this one, might not vote.

[Strontium]

Bakshi cut Tom Bombadil from his LOTR cartoon too, which suggests he is essentially superfluous to the plot.

 

Any film adaptation from a well loved novel (and The Godfather itself is no exception here) is probably going to upset some fans by altering or removing characters and subplots.

[Moo]

48 minutes ago, mattyq said:

 

Still annoys me that he got the Shire so wrong...

Was only skim reading your post and thought you were on about Talia Shire for a minute there! 

Always puzzles me how she gets a raw deal off the (very) odd person.  Yes she has a certain acting style, as many actors do, but she's perfect for the role. 

[Mudface]

48 minutes ago, Juniper said:

Always imagine Tom Bombadil as a Brian Blessed type. Not sure a Merry guy hoping around singing songs would have changed the tone of the early part of the film though. Can see why he didn’t make the cut. 

 

The 300 or so pages up to Bree or even Rivendell is almost a whole film in itself though. Love that part of LOTR. Shame they missed off Tom, the elves, being stalked by the Barrow-Wights, getting to Frodo’s new house, the bit with Farmer Maggot and the Black Riders making more appearances...etc.

 

Still can’t decide on this one, might not vote.

Yeah, the first book's got a much lighter tone than the second two, it's more like a continuation of The Hobbit than an epic in the making. I'm sure I read that he wrote the first one before WW2 and the others after, so the increasing darkness of tone might have been influenced by that. As for the film, I'm quite glad they didn't bother with much of it, even as it is, there's still an hour or so of whimsical fairytale scene setting before things liven up- having Bombadil prancing around after that would have killed it.

[VladimirIlyich]

The Godfather trilogy is The Beatles of the film world. It will never be beaten no matter how the nerds and smellies vote.