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Originally Posted by krystalhartley
Well, I remember lining up for hours before The Return of the Jedi (as a teen). I saw that and The Empire Strikes back before I saw the original Star Wars (same with Indiana Jones...saw Temple and Crusader before Raiders). Love the original Star Wars movies, but I never got into the prequels at all. Too much hype makes me rebel.
With Harry Potter...loved the books, and number 3 was my favorite. I watched movies 1-3, but I really hate how much is lost in the movies, so I stopped watching after 3.
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Too much hype doesn't do much good, does it? It makes expectations so high that no movie or book can ever meet them. I'm right there with you!
I had the luck that I was born to a country where I discovered everything in the pre-hype period... :-)
With SW, I love both OT and PT, but I can see why people don't like the prequels. Still, Revenge of the Sith is pure genius. That said, Slovakia was never the primary centre of the SW hype, so I had not chance to be annoyed with it!
With HP, I think Rowling totally lost touch after book 4 and didn't handle her own fame. Loved the first 4 though. Again, I was happy to having started to read them when there were unknown in our part of the world. With the arrival of the hype I felt discouraged, and when the author herself turned to writing a would-be-serious fantasy saga instead of the fun and original kid books she started out with, that was it for me. Nevertheless I saw the Half-Blood Prince in the theatre and was pleasantly surprised that it was actually fun, while the book bored me to tears. With the other movies it was the other way round with me. A mystery never to be solved, I guess.
With LOTR - I used to be a fan of the books in my teens and early twenties, however, in Slovakia they were totally unknown. As for the movies, I don't think they captured the spirit of the books with the possible exception of the first one. But that's what book fans always say, eh? :-) Anyway, I think LOTR can only be appreciated by people who are into mythologies (it was Tolkien's aim to create "a mythology for England", and that concerned the writing style as well). Anybody who expects a normal book is bound to be disappointed.
Said too much, haven't I? :-)