Comments by "Dino2996" (@Dino23968) on "WatchMojo.com"
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Sagar 1)Voldemort is basically just some Hitler wannabe while Sauron is technically the Antichrist of Middle-Earth. He's also more mysterious than Voldemort(it's the mystery of a villain that will usually increase the fear of that villain).
2)"Boring story?" HP is just an amalgamation of a middle/high school soap opera drama mixed with the whole "hero's journey" story arc(we've already seen that since Star Wars). LOTR,on the other hand, is pure fantasy adventure(you don't get a real adventure in HP until the seventh installment). And you obviously can't put adventure behind a school soap opera drama(anybody could easily get bored of that genre and want a real adventure).
3)Middle-Earth has many constructed languages(Quenya,Telerin,Sindarin,Adûnaic,Westron,Rohirric,Khuzdûl,Entish,Valarin,and Black Speech). There even exists sites and books on how to speak those languages. In HP,there's only Parseltongue(snake language). That's pretty much it.
4)HP comes off as weirdly racist.First example,"don't speak snake language because that's baaad and eviiil." That's like saying, "don't speak Russian just because they're all communists." Second example,poor house-elves as slaves. Even good wizards are implied to use them as slaves. How is this not terrible? Third example,a statue of muggles being crushed by a Ministry of Magic monument. Is there anything else to say about this one? LOTR is lucky to not have a whole lot of racism.
5)The One Ring doesn't just make its wearer invisible,but it can also corrupt and destroy anyone who has it for too long. Look at what happened to Sméagol. Also, Sauron was going to create an apocalypse with the ring.
6)Middle-earth not only transcends space and time,but also stands out as a reflection of US,based on the multiple nations and races(Elves,Dwarves,Hobbits,Orcs,Goblins,etc) that speak their own languages,are entitled to their own cultures, and even have those religions. Even in the Hobbit movie trilogy,the rivalry between Elves and Dwarves is like the Cold War in a way because,again,it's like a real-life reflection of us. There's not a whole lot of reflections of us in HP,because in HP, it's mostly just stereotypical character archetypes:The coming-of-age hero(Harry),the wimpy BF(Ron),the wise old man(Dumblerdore),etc.
7)HP may have a lot of tragic character deaths,but it unfortunately also takes the easy way out sometimes(like using time travel to save Buckbeak from getting chopped in half and Harry coming back after Voldemort killed him). Even if the series continued, it would take almost no stakes at all, while in LOTR, you have to face what's happening and then move forward. There's even this from The Fellowship Of The Ring:
Frodo:I wish the ring had never come to me.I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf:So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
The world of HP may be this whole "whimsical","joyous", and "dreamy" utopia that we wish we could be,but the world of LOTR is actually what we really are right now.
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Why it comes to tying magic into the lore, definitely LOTR. Sure, HP had good magic tied to the lore, but JRR Tolkien wrote so many endless pages about how his world was built, how gods became demigods, and how races of elves, dwarves, and humans came to be. All the things are so well explained, the magic system is so well understood, and of course it’s foundation in the creation of the world. This is something that unfortunately doesn’t come from many fantasy authors of today, not even JK Rowling. They may build a magic system, but they barely tell us how this all came to be. I know that there are some people out there like “Who cares? Nobody wants to know how this world came to be. I just want a story and not stuff that is boring to us?” Are you kidding? Of course there’s a lot of us who wants to know the history of that world and tying the magic to history and Tolkien did that in such an outstanding way once you give it a chance. Which leads to the problem here:Potter fans take one look at the LOTR or Middle-Earth books and be like “UGH, I can sooooo tell that this is totally gonna be utterly aweful and boring with too much fat written in the pages.” First of all, this is called open world building. Second, of all the books keep the juxtaposition of world building and storytelling in perfect balance. Third of all, the books have a lot written in the pages because this is a fully mature fantasy for real adult audience instead of the kind that are stuck on the juvenile too-trimmed-down-for-easy peezyness children’s fantasy that is HP.
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χουπο φης BUT you know how they say HP was easily adaptable while LOTR was hard to adapt? There's a reason behind that,based on the kind of sub-genres they are. HP was too easy to adapt on the big screen because it was classified as a Low-Class Children's Fantasy. Even Disney easily adapted classic fairytales that were in that category. The same thing with the Chronicles Of Narnia(both the BBC and Disney version). LOTR,on the other hand, was hard to adapt at first because it was classified as a High-Class Epic Fantasy. By God, a High-Class Epic Fantasy; those were considered and expected to be both critical and box office BOMBS in the past(Mostly the ones back in the 1980s such as The Beastmaster,The Dark Crystal,Labyrith,Legion,etc) . But all three films were doing something that the fantasy film's in the past didn't do: THINK.They thought about character, they thought about story, they thought about world-building, they thought about what wasn't being done in theatres anymore, and they made those elements the stars again as opposed to the effects. And with all of that together, the movie trilogy won a total of 17 OSCARS(with The Return Of The King winning for Best Picture)! What a great accomplishment!
The Harry Potter films didn't win any Oscars because they were made by different directors, while The Lord Of The Rings were all made by one man alone, Peter Jackson, who not only re-read the books but also re-STUDIED the books.
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χουπο φης Highest-grossing franchises and film series
(The films in each franchise can be viewed by selecting "show".)
Rank
Series
Total worldwide gross
No. of films
Average of films
Highest-grossing film
1
Marvel Cinematic Universe
$17,527,905,485
20
$876,395,274
Avengers: Infinity War ($2,046,669,485)
Phase Three
$8,444,969,792
8
$1,055,621,224
Avengers: Infinity War ($2,046,669,485)
1
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
$2,046,669,485
2
Black Panther (2018)
$1,346,913,161
3
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
$1,153,304,495
4
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
$880,166,924
5
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
$863,756,051
6
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
$853,977,126
7
Doctor Strange (2016)
$677,718,395
8
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
$622,464,155
Phase Two
$5,271,691,209
6
$878,615,202
Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1,405,403,694)
1
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
$1,405,403,694
2
Iron Man 3 (2013)
$1,214,811,252
3
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
$773,328,629
4
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
$714,264,267
5
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
$644,571,402
6
Ant-Man (2015)
$519,311,965
Phase One
$3,811,244,484
6
$635,207,414
The Avengers ($1,518,812,988)
1
The Avengers (2012)
$1,518,812,988
2
Iron Man 2 (2010)
$623,933,331
3
Iron Man (2008)
$585,174,222
4
Thor (2011)
$449,326,618
5
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
$370,569,774
6
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
$263,427,551
2
Star Wars
$9,241,637,334
11
$840,148,849
The Force Awakens ($2,068,223,624)
Episodes
$7,724,434,474
8
$965,554,309
The Force Awakens ($2,068,223,624)
Sequel trilogy
$3,400,763,513
2
$1,700,381,757
The Force Awakens ($2,068,223,624)
1
VII – The Force Awakens (2015)
$2,068,223,624
2
VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)
$1,332,539,889
Prequel trilogy
$2,525,197,773
3
$841,732,591
The Phantom Menace ($1,027,044,677)
1
I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
$1,027,044,677
2
III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
$848,754,768
3
II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
$649,398,328
Original trilogy
$1,798,473,188
3
$599,491,063
A New Hope ($775,398,007)
1
IV – A New Hope (1977)
$775,398,007
2
V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
$547,969,004
3
VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
$475,106,177
Anthology films
$1,448,920,016
2
$724,460,008
Rogue One ($1,056,057,273)
1
Rogue One (2016)
$1,056,057,273
2
Solo (2018)
$392,862,743
The Clone Wars (2008)
$68,282,844
3
Wizarding World
$8,539,253,704
9
$948,805,967
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($1,341,511,219)
Harry Potter series
$7,725,216,129
8
$965,652,016
Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($1,341,511,219)
1
Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)
$1,341,511,219
2
Philosopher's Stone (2001)
$974,755,371
3
Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)
$960,283,305
4
Order of the Phoenix (2007)
$939,885,929
5
Half-Blood Prince (2009)
$934,416,487
6
Goblet of Fire (2005)
$896,911,078
7
Chamber of Secrets (2002)
$878,979,634
8
Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
$796,688,549
9
IMAX Marathon (2016)
$1,784,557
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
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χουπο φης Yeah, he sacrificed himself, but still came back from the dead. In the end of the final LOTR installment, The Return Of The King, Frodo had been badly hurt in the War of the Ring, and perhaps even paid a cost higher than any other survivor. Frodo had been stabbed with a magical Morgul blade by the Witch King of Angmar, the leader of the Nazguls. Not only had this very nearly killed him, but it left physical and psychic wounds which never entirely healed. He had also been poisoned by the giant, malevolent spider, Shelob. But the burden of carrying the One Ring all the way to Mordor and to the fires of Mount Doom damaged him even more profoundly. No mortal was ever intended to carry such a weight. The constant struggle between his own good intentions and the sweet secret whisperings of the Ring must have been indescribably awful. When the war ended, Frodo was anxious to return to the thing he had always loved best, the hope of which had sustained him through the worst of his travails—the Shire. We can be certain that he hoped he would continue to heal there, and would someday resume an active life. But in this, at least, he was wrong. His pain and his alienation never ceased. He had already healed as much as it was possible to do so, at least in the mortal world. Any further healing would have to be at the hands of the Valar, the angelic supreme gods of the West. And so Frodo ultimately sailed with Cirdan, Galadriel, Elrond, Gandalf, and the other maimed Ring Bearer, Bilbo, to the Undying Lands so that Frodo could heal and die in peace in Valinor, the Middle-Earth version of Heaven. Not that is a more powerful portrayal of a main hero's big sacrifice of himself to save the whole world he was in.
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