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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City
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| Feloria wrote: |
I heard (a while ago), that Peter Jackson IS directing it. It had been in pre-production for a while. Pretty exciting, eh? I will admit-I am one of those LOTR enthusiasts, to the point that I love the stories and the films-I don't wear elf ears however!!
Anyone hear of this new ERAGON(or something to that effect) epic that is supposed to put LOTR to shame?? |
Peter Jackson is the "master". If he signs on again, it will be phenomenal. |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:17 am Post subject: |
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I guess I'm the only person on the planet who wishes Peter Jackson had talked to someone who read The Lord of the Rings. I didn't hate what he did completely, but what I did hate I hated quite a lot.
Like, gutting the story of most of its nobility. The younger hobbits joining the expedition because they accidentally tumbled into the cart? Elrond as a mean control freak? Faramir as what amounted to an embittered carbon copy of his brother? Frodo believing for an instant that Sam had eaten the last of their food? I know, running time was an issue and Jackson needed some shortcuts, but all the ones he took sucked a$$. And not in the good way.
Visually these movies were splendid, but ... as a telling of the tale itself, they were just so-so. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:37 am Post subject: Re: MGM to make "The Hobbit" |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
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| In fact, I would say the orignal Rankin/Bass production outshone all three of the recent efforts, and by quite a bit. And it was animation. |
Did you drop a lot of acid back in the day?
_*_ |
This is Joo-esque... Well below your usual participation level. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| daskalos wrote: |
I guess I'm the only person on the planet who wishes Peter Jackson had talked to someone who read The Lord of the Rings. I didn't hate what he did completely, but what I did hate I hated quite a lot.
Like, gutting the story of most of its nobility. The younger hobbits joining the expedition because they accidentally tumbled into the cart? Elrond as a mean control freak? Faramir as what amounted to an embittered carbon copy of his brother? Frodo believing for an instant that Sam had eaten the last of their food? I know, running time was an issue and Jackson needed some shortcuts, but all the ones he took sucked a$$. And not in the good way.
Visually these movies were splendid, but ... as a telling of the tale itself, they were just so-so. |
Ah.... Nice. The Rankin/Bass Hobbit came so much closer to the FEEL of the books. Sparklet (  ), above, just doesn't get it.
TLOTRs was a fairy tale, an allegory and a cuationary tale all rolled in one. Thus, both obviously and not-so-obviously, it was a fantasy. But it was also a fantasy in the truest sense. The movies created by what's-his-name were faithful to the words, but not necessarily to the spirit of TLOTRs.
How old art thou, sparklet? |
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