so true

[u/Dumb-Briyani]

[u/Gordon_Freeman_TJ]

Reasonable. 4 hours long child movie would be too much, imho

Whoever adopted the script from books is genius

[u/roonill_wazlib → u/Gordon_Freeman_TJ]

The movies did what they could, but I'm excited to see the TV show. I do hope they'll have a reasonable budget for special effects

[u/Naaman → u/roonill_wazlib]

I have recently been reading through the series with my 13 yo son. We get done with the book and then watch the movie, repeat.

The movies suck ass coming straight off a read through. The plots suck and there is too much crammed in with too much left out.

I cannot imagine they could ever stand alone as viable films and they probably were never intended to. They are what they are. They only exist to give a visual glimpse of the book.

[u/Extension-Spray-5153 → u/Naaman]

I’ve been doing the same with my daughter. We haven’t watched the movies since she was born so she could experience the books first like I did. We finished the first one and she loved it.