Star Wars Vs. Lord Of The Rings

[David64ca]

I have to ask this question. Which movie do you think is better: LOTR:TFOTR or SWE4:ANH?

[Outlander00]

Considering Lucas was a little influenced (and I do mean a little), PLUS LOTR is older... Id go with the older classic on this one.

[GoufCustom]

Lord of the Ring: Fellowship Of The Ring, this movie is the Star Wars of my generation.

[Joker85]

I loved both of the movies to death, but I really enjoyed Star Wars: A New Hope more. Yeah, the special effects weren't as good but it was a fun sci fi adventure type movie and it wasn't nearly as long! No, that really would be a tough call, but I think in the end I'd go with Star Wars.

[James]

Star Wars. Perhaps it's my generation... hmm, no - I think it was a far more revolutionary film to LOTR. I loved FOTR, it had it's flaws though despite being on of the more rivetting films I'd seen at the time. Star Wars offered something entirely new - it made scifi credible and spawned a generation which fans whose love for the movie spurs their work today in a variety of films. As a film itself, it's pretty much faultless too. Some of the effects were a little off (and still off in the SE), but then some of the CG in LOTR didn't hit the grade. The big difference to me is the end of the films - LOTR suffered a messy ending, one which i think could have been executed better, while Star Wars had a perfect resoloution.

Cool question - and tough, but Star Wars Ep IV is the winner for me!

[Barb Gordon]

Star Wars. That's always number one for me. The conversations sometimes are so awesome, and you've got to admire how well they did with special effects back then....sometimes I like what they did in the originals more then the new ones! LOTR is one heck of an amazing book and story in general. It was a great movie to, but I don't think it can compare all that much to SW. Otherwise, why not Harry Potter? I find it a bit hard to truly compare something that's based on a book first, to something that was first made for the big screen, and then books followed afterwards.

~Barb

[Trent Lane]

Star Wars- I was awake through the whole thing when I saw it in the theater, the special edition, whereas I fell asleep twice in LOTR. LOTR is better at home, maybe cause I was poking fun at it the whole time to annoy my friends

[zarius]

I was poking fun at it the whole time to annoy my friends

Mocking LOR is NOT Permissible, or forgivable

[Trent Lane]

Oh well... I had fun

[Ordinary Guy]

Gotta go with Star Wars. I'm a huge Star Wars fan. Plus I think I'm probably the only person who did not like Lord of the Rings.

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,

Originally posted by zarius
I was poking fun at it the whole time to annoy my friends

Mocking LOR is NOT Permissible, or forgivable

Fan: Someone who laughs along with the jokes poked at the object of admiration.

Zealot: Someone who gets really mad at the jokes poked at the object of admiration.

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I'm going to declare this one a tie. Star Wars was the first movie I can ever remember seeing, and I remember coming home and starting to draw X-wings and a vague attempt at Darth Vader. It's a nice, self-contained cinematic work of tremendous creativity.

LotR:FotR is, in my opinion, a better movie. I think it manages to hit the emotional buttons more accurately, more often, and on repeated viewings compared to Star Wars. However, it does run awfully long (sometimes, IMO, where it doesn't need to be) and doesn't end the story. You can watch Star Wars all by itself and walk away perfectly happy. You're just going to be horribly disappointed by the end of LotR:FotR, if anything because you know you have to wait for a whole 'nother year (or, by now, only another 3 weeks) to see the next one.

I guess that's a long winded way of saying, "Uh, I like 'em both." .

-- Ed/Ace

[Jedigreedo]

Star Wars.

Luke's flying down the trench, music's going, Darth Vader's right behind him and R2's been shot. Obi-Wan's told him to shut off his targeting computer and he's just playing it by the force. Music's getting louder, Vader's getting a lock, Vader starts firing and then you hear a YEEHAW! And see the Falcon coming in and Luke makes the shot.

Come on...now you can't tell me there was an LOTR sequence as on-your-seat as that. A New Hope is a great story, had flaws throughout it but it was still a very enjoyable story, and had great actors to pull it off. Alot of the special effects helped like the trench scene but can you imagine how hard that was for them to make back then?

[Mynd Hed]

Come on...now you can't tell me there was an LOTR sequence as on-your-seat as that.

It's true, I feel that as an action movie Star Wars edges out FOTR. The strength of FOTR lies in other areas, such as storytelling and theme. Not that these elements weren't DAMN strong in Star Wars as well, mind you, but they were improved on even more in the next two SW movies.

I dunno, I just can't choose between them. I try and try, but... I just can't. They're both just so !@#$ great, real triumphs of big-budget film-making.

[JDuncan]

You mean the real version of Star Wars, not the special edition, right? If so, my vote goes to Star Wars.

[Calico]

Star Wars. There's just something so innocent about it, and furthermore, it didn't have so much hype to live up to. It was just this little space movie and it's turned into a generational icon. Besides with wookies, prim British droids, and a masked figure that strangles with his mind, it's just in a class by itself.

But then in the end I had to put up (a young) Harrison Ford agains Viggo Mortenson, and as much as Viggo sets my heart a pitter-patter, Harrison Ford is the epitome of, well, manness.

[Mynd Hed]

But then in the end I had to put up (a young) Harrison Ford agains Viggo Mortenson, and as much as Viggo sets my heart a pitter-patter, Harrison Ford is the epitome of, well, manness.

Interesting, the ladies where I work are all ga-ga over Orlando Bloom, not so much Viggo Mortensen.

In all heterosexuality, I'd have to call Viggo the more attractive out of the three, but hey, what do I know?

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[Starflyer 58]

I love them both. But my vote's with Star Wars, too. I only discovered LOTR about four years ago, and SW at age 7; that probably has a lot to do with it. For nine years since then my fandom hasn't lessened. Fellowship is a fabulous movie... it has also caught and held my attention, moreso than the Tolkien novels (although I enjoyed those, too; they were just a bit tough for me to get into)... but in the end, A New Hope wins out.

[The Guard]

STAR WARS is great, one of the best representations of Good Vs. Evil that I've ever seen, and the internal struggle inside us all, but LORD OF THE RINGS just has it beat in terms of sheer scope and imagination. STAR WARS is a space opera. And while it has cool things like Darth Vader, lightsabers, and well, star battles, it cannot compare to the mines of Moria, the Balrog, Gandalf, and the overall atmosphere of LOTR. Plus, I don't think there's am emotional moment in all of STAR WARS that rivals the death of Boromir, or some of the other scenes in the movie.

[Sandro]

I was a Star Wars fan before a LOTR fan. However, seeing both of them, LOTR has just blown Star Wars out of the water in every aspect.

[JohnCrichton]

I hate to betray my generation, but I have to go with Lord of the Rings since it is the greatest fantasy epic told on the silver screen of all time.

And currently in my eyes the greatest film of all time.

I love you Star Wars, and I always will..... but I cannot deny that LotR is the one movie to rule them all.

*bows head in shame*