Star Wars, Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, pick one.

Flagpole wrote:

More nerds around in today's society than in 1977; flat out more people, and the percentage of nerds is greater too.

The Star Wars franchise remains the most attended franchise in box office history...less money that Harry Potter (the franchise money making winner) because it started in 1977. EVERYONE saw Star Wars, nerd or not. Only nerds went willingly to see Lord of the Rings.

Yes, there just happen to be millions and millions of extra nerds around now. It has nothing to do with the fact that the books are some of the most celebrated and widely read contemporary literature on earth, or that the films broke all kinds of records.

No, it is just that there are more nerds around now.

Flagpole, get your head examined.

Nothing there disproved what I said.

Flagpole is typically wrong wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

More nerds around in today's society than in 1977; flat out more people, and the percentage of nerds is greater too.

The Star Wars franchise remains the most attended franchise in box office history...less money that Harry Potter (the franchise money making winner) because it started in 1977. EVERYONE saw Star Wars, nerd or not. Only nerds went willingly to see Lord of the Rings.

You are wrong. And you are a moron. Check out the statistics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_film_trilogy

Flagpole wrote:

Nothing there disproved what I said.

I don't think you're going to find a listing of "how many nerds" are in the US at any given time. GTFO with your stupid posts.

I didn't say I'd find a list brother. Just my observation, and a correct one at that.Regarding more tickets sold for Star Wars than any other movie, that is a long-standing known.Here's just one story mentioning it as opposed to Avatar which topped Star Wars in revenue.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/17/entertainment/main6107664.shtmlHere's the relevant part:"But factoring in today's higher admission prices, "Star Wars" remains well ahead of "Avatar" on actual number of tickets sold."Back to the question posed in this thread, WHY did Star Wars sell more than the other two nerdy movies mentioned?It appealed to a wider audience...nerds and non nerds alike.

An Obstetrician wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Nothing there disproved what I said.

I don't think you're going to find a listing of "how many nerds" are in the US at any given time. GTFO with your stupid posts.

Flagpole wrote:

The Star Wars franchise remains the most attended franchise in box office history...

Uh... it has twice as many films. I don't think that is a comparable statistic. When looking at the first three of each franchise, LOTR and HP blow it away in attendance numbers.

Flagpole wrote:

I didn't say I'd find a list brother. Just my observation, and a correct one at that.

Regarding more tickets sold for Star Wars than any other movie, that is a long-standing known.

Here's just one story mentioning it as opposed to Avatar which topped Star Wars in revenue.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/17/entertainment/main6107664.shtml

Here's the relevant part:

"But factoring in today's higher admission prices, "Star Wars" remains well ahead of "Avatar" on actual number of tickets sold."

Back to the question posed in this thread, WHY did Star Wars sell more than the other two nerdy movies mentioned?

It appealed to a wider audience...nerds and non nerds alike.

Straw MAN!!!!! Flagpole you are too much with your ad hominem posts.

Hahahahaha Flagpole is wrong so he just creates another argument to "win."

Tolkien created a new language for his books and a whole new world that you can study at some universities! LOTR by a wide margin

the real winner is Toy Story

1) Harry Potter

2)LOTR

3)Star Wars

I love all 3, but actually the closest 2 are LOTR and Harry Potter. Harry Potter is such a cool world and the main characters in the book were very close to my age as the books came out.

LOTR is almost equally great. It's hard, even though they are both fantasy, it's hard to compare them. One is more epic fantasy and the other is just a different type of story. Characters are a little more personal.

LOTR is the GOAT. But Game of Thrones is close.

Like many on here, I grew up reading the HP books as they came out- but I also grew up watching the Star Wars movies,and the first book my dad ever read to me (after Hop on Pop of course) was the Hobbit, and when I started reading LOTR and the HP books were some of the first ones I picked up. With that said, Lord of the Rings wins it on both fronts.

As far as the books go, its no contest; LOTR is vastly superior. I loved reading the HP books as they came out, and they certainly qualify as a pop-culture phenomenon- but I can't imagine that they will have the staying power that LOTR has.

As for the movies, the Star Wars franchise is a classic (I agree that the original trilogy is much better, but I tend to enjoy the prequels more than most people- probably because I watched them all in theaters when they came out). I think that the LOTR movies did an incredible job of capturing the "epicness" of the books- even if A LOT of stuff was missing, they did about as good a job as was humanly possible given the time constraints.

Don't really like the HP movies at all, particularly the last 3- not very faithful to the books and certainly none of the movies could stand on their own merits.

Movies- Lord of the Rings

Books- Harry Potter

Honestly, I found the lord of the rings books difficult to get through. Outstanding idea, world, story, ect, but i found the story telling quite boring.

You must be joking. Star Wars is a classic movie and changed the structure of movies, even more than Jaws, both in technology and in subject matter, and it was a terrific film. Lord of the Rings was among the most boring films I have ever seen, and I have seen Matthew Barney's movie Drawing Restraint 9, so that is saying something. There was no virtue to Lord of the Rings either, though the books are very good. Harry Potter is juvenilia, nothing more.

You and I would not get along. I actually have refused to date girls who have said LOTR is boring because I know something is fundamentally wrong/uncool with them.

Umm what about Twilight??

When Star Wars came out in 1977 it was probably the biggest movie phenomenon of all time commercially. Maybe

Jaws was the same. It was an exciting and fun movie from start to finish. Especially as a 10 year old kid.

Lord of the Rings I finally watched when I had my wisdom teeth taken out 4 years ago. Watched the first two in their entirety. Definitely would have been better in a theatre.

I have only seen the last Harry Potter movie in the theatre this year and it was extremely well done and fun to watch but I had no clue what the hell was going on. Some guy wanted to kill Harry and there were huge battles. Sort of like Lord of the Rings.

I'd have to say Star Wars, but it can't compete in this day and age with the other two in the special effects obviously. All three are quality of the genre. Good acting, storyline, and amazing visual effects. A opposed to the last Star Wars or Transformers which only have the special effects going for them.

jjjjjjj wrote:

Star Wars is a classic movie...Harry Potter is juvenilia, nothing more.

The original Star Wars and the two sequels were ground breaking and I loved them when I was an adolescent, but the whole series is definitely "juvenilia."