Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will NOT make the Hobbit!!

[Majesty]

HURRAY!!!!!

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

NOW who is going to produce a movie that completely misses the point of the book it's based on to laughable results and still mystifyingly garner acclaim and fortune??!!

 

[LanceM]

I liked the movies better than the books, which I read about ten years ago.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: LanceM
I liked the movies better than the books, which I read about ten years ago.

I don't recall where I read it before but it's been said that the LOTR movies are one of the few exceptions where the movie is actually better than the books.

 

[Alone]

That really sucks. I liked the movies almost as much as the books, and I would love to see Jackson do The Hobbit.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
NOW who is going to produce a movie that completely misses the point of the book it's based on to laughable results and still mystifyingly garner acclaim and fortune??!!

The point is that the books were just so-so, thus they need to be modified to improve them. For example, what other books have 10-20 names for just one character? That whole crap sucked. Thus, the movies were better.

 

[Fayd]

hmm...i liked the books more. then again, it's easy for me to keep things strait when i'm reading them..

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
NOW who is going to produce a movie that completely misses the point of the book it's based on to laughable results and still mystifyingly garner acclaim and fortune??!!

The point is that the books were just so-so, thus they need to be modified to improve them. For example, what other books have 10-20 names for just one character? That whole crap sucked. Thus, the movies were better.

hmmm good things I didnt waste my time reading the books

 

[GoPackGo]

I really loved the movies...New Line is a bunch of fools.

 

[mrkun]

Everyone that hates LOTR the book should be genocided.

 

[Hyperlite]

I'm more interested in seeing Peter Jackson's Halo.

 

[RandomFool]

I liked the movies and the books...I hoping he'd so the hobbit too.

and I thought Halo was canceled?

 

[TheSlamma]

Jackson is getting a big head anyway. He didn't even mention Tolken's name once with any of the awards he received.

 

[meltdown75]

What about them? THEY'RE FRESH

 

[Majesty]

Originally posted by: mrkun
Everyone that hates LOTR the book should be genocided.

Wisest words of the day. I bow to you. ;-)

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
NOW who is going to produce a movie that completely misses the point of the book it's based on to laughable results and still mystifyingly garner acclaim and fortune??!!

You know nothing about tolkiens work... He detested allegory and wrote the books purely as ledgend because he felt that aside from the christian Authurian mythology Brittian had no myths of their own.

Jackson did just that, doing tolkien justice, you are a tool...

 

[Majesty]

Originally posted by: TheSlamma
Jackson is getting a big head anyway. He didn't even mention Tolken's name once with any of the awards he received.

And Tolkien's name should never ever be mentioned with those movies!!

The movies don't make justice to the books:

The time lapse is non present
The surroundings sucks (but for the Shire)
The Balrog's behavior is a transvestite of what it is suppose to be
Gilmli's a comic relief
Frodo's behavior towards Sam is stupid
Galadriel's exorcism is also completely stupid

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: dullard
The point is that the books were just so-so, thus they need to be modified to improve them. For example, what other books have 10-20 names for just one character? That whole crap sucked. Thus, the movies were better.

If you say so...

The movies were good, but could only catch a glimpse of the motivations and personalities of the chartacters, and the interactions betweeen them. Even at 3 hours each, there just isn't enough time.

IMO, the books tell a better story.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: LanceM
I liked the movies better than the books, which I read about ten years ago.

I enjoyed the LOTR trilogy. However i could never read the book, that thing is the size of an encyclopaedia. I've got the book at home (the hobbit too), never going to read either though.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: LanceM
I liked the movies better than the books, which I read about ten years ago.

I enjoyed the LOTR trilogy. However i could never read the book, that thing is the size of an encyclopaedia. I've got the book at home (the hobbit too), never going to read either though.

You are depriving yourself of some fantastic reads.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: LanceM
I liked the movies better than the books, which I read about ten years ago.

I enjoyed the LOTR trilogy. However i could never read the book, that thing is the size of an encyclopaedia. I've got the book at home (the hobbit too), never going to read either though.

Look at the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan if you want an encyclopedia analogy. Each book is 600-800 pages or so, and there are 11(?) now...

I quit after 8. The man needs a better editor.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: LanceM
I liked the movies better than the books, which I read about ten years ago.

I enjoyed the LOTR trilogy. However i could never read the book, that thing is the size of an encyclopaedia.

It goes quick.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: SirStev0

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
NOW who is going to produce a movie that completely misses the point of the book it's based on to laughable results and still mystifyingly garner acclaim and fortune??!!

You know nothing about tolkiens work... He detested allegory and wrote the books purely as ledgend because he felt that aside from the christian Authurian mythology Brittian had no myths of their own.

Jackson did just that, doing tolkien justice, you are a tool...

So you're content because Jackson created "a" legend. Tolkien created a masterful one. Jackson's was a laughably portrayed anemic one. But if that's all it takes to make you happy....

 

[meltdown75]

Wow. I couldn't get enough of Tolkien. When I finished The Hobbit and LOTR I read the Silmarillion and Book of Lost Tales.

Non-ADD kid FTW?

 

[SSP]

Go ahead New Line, hire Uwe Boll and ruin this movie. Then go back to being fscing broke.