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Lord Of The Rings star says Harry Potter is 'lightweight'
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Posted on 11/09/2001 12:08:13 AM PST by jjbrouwer
One of the stars of Lord Of The Rings has described the Harry Potter movie as "lightweight".
John Rhys-Davies says his fantasy film will win the box office battle between the two.
Rhys-Davies plays the heroic dwarf Gimli in the trilogy based on JRR Tolkien's books.
"I dread to say it, but I actually think, when the two films are looked at side by side, you'll see one has a texture and a depth and a moral dimension to it that will make Harry Potter look a little slight," he told the Daily Record.
"That's not a bad thing. I'm not being dismissive of Harry Potter. I think it will do well - but it's pretty lightweight stuff.
"Lord Of The Rings author JRR Tolkien is a considerable writer and, I think, a considerable thinker."
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Sounds like sour grapes to me...
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posted on
11/09/2001 12:08:13 AM PST
by
jjbrouwer
To: Aquinasfan; tonycavanagh; Da_Shrimp
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posted on
11/09/2001 12:14:54 AM PST
by
jjbrouwer
To: jjbrouwer
Rhys-Davies plays the heroic dwarf Gimli ... and they say size doesn't matter...
hmmm...
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posted on
11/09/2001 12:25:45 AM PST
by
IncPen
To: IncPen
The little fellas are often the most troublesome. Mini Me was a dangerous customer.
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posted on
11/09/2001 12:32:53 AM PST
by
jjbrouwer
To: jjbrouwer
Well he's right, Harry Potter is lightweight when compared to LOTR but then again one is aimed at children and the other is aimed at adults. Comparing the two is apples and oranges; its kind of like comparing Day of the Jackal with SpyKids.
BTW almost everything that has come out of the fantasy genre in the last 40 years is derivative of LOTR or the Arthur mythos. That includes Harry Potter.
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posted on
11/09/2001 12:33:00 AM PST
by
ICU812
To: ICU812
Spy Kids was superior.
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posted on
11/09/2001 12:35:39 AM PST
by
jjbrouwer
To: jjbrouwer
one has a texture and a depth and a moral dimension The PC alarm on my PC just went off.
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posted on
11/09/2001 1:34:33 AM PST
by
atafak
To: atafak
Yeah, I know. I feel the same about actors who go on about 'considerable thinkers'.
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posted on
11/09/2001 1:45:52 AM PST
by
jjbrouwer
To: jjbrouwer
'considerable thinkers'Quite the phrase, that. A bothernot of words.
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posted on
11/09/2001 1:49:24 AM PST
by
atafak
To: jjbrouwer
Hey, it's going to be a great day! We're ten posts into a Harry Potter thread and not one "Harry Potter is the anti-Christ" post.
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posted on
11/09/2001 1:58:21 AM PST
by
TomB
To: TomB
He is the lightweight Anti-Christ!
To: jjbrouwer
He is the lightweight Anti-Christ! I thought that was the Pope?
Maybe one of the 'thumpers' will clarify.
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posted on
11/09/2001 2:05:28 AM PST
by
TomB
To: TomB
Yes, it might be worth doing a *ping-around* Not really necessary though because the first thing they do when they get up is type 'Harry Potter' into the search bar. Kinda makes their day...
To: Deb
Ping
To: jjbrouwer
If the film is no improvement over the book (as is likely to be the case); he's right; but that's because Rowling is utterly lightweight. But then, most fantasy is, compared to J.R.R.T.
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:34:02 AM PST
by
Rocko
Fun with
Fluffy Who is H.P. Blavatsky?
If anyone finds any other occultic/hellish references please send them to me.
To: Aquinasfan
If anyone finds any other occultic/hellish references please send them to me.
Are you a collector, then?
To: TomB
Give us time. It's early.
To: jjbrouwer
I would venture a guess that
Harry Potter is popular because it is written down to a literary level that enables the majority of ill-educated American children to read and understand it.
I'd be interested in a comparison of two groups of students on these two groups of books: publik skool and home-schooled students and their opinions on the Harry Potter series and the Tolkien series.
My personal Tolkien favorite is Unfinished Tales. Most excellent.
To: an amused spectator
Possibly proving your point, I once started reading Unfinished Tales. It remained unfinished.
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