I have slightly different personal boundaries on what I like & don't like in the PJ movies, but yes. YES. Star Wars is the perfect comparison.
I don't begrudge people who dislike the movies--well, okay, not *much*--but I don't think they understand what they were to some of us. Or what they were to the genre, because seriously, I really think it was Peter Jackson plus Harry Potter that helped create our current era of somewhat faithful book-to-movie adaptations.
And I too decided I was done with feeling defensive (or guilty) about movies that I love. Yes, there are parts of the LOTR movies that I think were silly or stupid. Yes, there are bits that I really don't like. But the effort of hating something that walked away with a bit of my heart? SO NOT WORTH IT.
(And I'm honestly okay with the movies sometimes being an alternate universe. Like, Book Aragorn and Movie Aragorn are really different people, and if I had to choose between them I would totally pick Book Aragorn--but you know, I honestly like the fact that Aragorn now comes in TWO delicious flavors.)
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Date: 2014-01-23 06:01 am (UTC)From:I have slightly different personal boundaries on what I like & don't like in the PJ movies, but yes. YES. Star Wars is the perfect comparison.
I don't begrudge people who dislike the movies--well, okay, not *much*--but I don't think they understand what they were to some of us. Or what they were to the genre, because seriously, I really think it was Peter Jackson plus Harry Potter that helped create our current era of somewhat faithful book-to-movie adaptations.
And I too decided I was done with feeling defensive (or guilty) about movies that I love. Yes, there are parts of the LOTR movies that I think were silly or stupid. Yes, there are bits that I really don't like. But the effort of hating something that walked away with a bit of my heart? SO NOT WORTH IT.
(And I'm honestly okay with the movies sometimes being an alternate universe. Like, Book Aragorn and Movie Aragorn are really different people, and if I had to choose between them I would totally pick Book Aragorn--but you know, I honestly like the fact that Aragorn now comes in TWO delicious flavors.)