Not related to blu-ray....

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Originally Posted by Existentialist

All those movies you mentioned are targeted at kids and young teens. They are fantasy, but you really can't compare them to LOTR. There really haven't been any adult fantasy films to compare it to since the 70-80's. There was Willow, Conan, Dragonslayer, Time bandits, Beastmaster and a whole slew of others. Now if they were to make the original Shannara trilogy or the wheel of time series that would be more on the level with LOTR.

I noticed you pointed out a few of the "newer" novels to take off. Were you aware that George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series has been optioned by HBO?

It'll be one of those shows that, like Rome, I'll have to purchase HBO for and then buy the series when it comes out. Here's to hoping that HBO will put something other than the Soprano's on blu.

That is, if Martin survives to write the books. At his pace, he'll end up the same as Robert Jordan, dead before the last one is written.