/raise. I've fallen asleep everytime i've sat down to watch POC1 & 2... and LOTR I respect as a great franchise that was well done, but it just isn't for me.... too long. Split it into 6 enjoyable shorter movies and I'd eat it up. Imagine if they did all the Harry Potter books as a trilogy instead of the half dozen or whatever of them they're making.
Thanks for the good laugh.
LOTR was actually three parts of one book totalling about 1000 pages. HP is a seven book series coming in at over 4000 pages. Yes, LOTR has a little more content per page, but still... If you wanted to give HP treatment similar to what LOTR got at the theaters, it would be 12 movies, not 3.
As far as the quality of the movies, I'd rank it like this:
1. LOTR
2. HP
3. POTC (could actually be more like #10)
Having read both, I find LOTR much more enjoyable as a movie, while the opposite is true of HP.