Archive: 16 posts

---

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP-oHfhIyiU TRAILER Looks awesome.

2011-12-21 03:33:00 Author: Boomy Posts: 3701

---

I've been waiting along time for this. Looks incredible. It's going to be awesome.

2011-12-21 05:58:00 Author: biorogue Posts: 8424

---

Dunno...I don't like Tolkien stuff, though I appreciate his visions... This stuff, the first thing I thought was "Hobbit of the Caribbean"

2011-12-21 07:28:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112

---

its really coming

2011-12-21 07:32:00 Author: jump_button Posts: 1014

---

My body is ready.

2011-12-21 07:39:00 Author: Alec Posts: 3871

---

Do want. 10char >__>

2011-12-21 14:38:00 Author: Unknown User

---

It's going to be a pile of Hollywood trash - full of un-needed over-the-top action sequences and false tension that weren't in the book. Also, casting Martin Freeman as Bilbo is one of the worst casting decisions ever... the guy CANNOT act, and he ruined HitchHikers Guide the Movie pretty much single-handedly. This should be understood in the context that The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings were probably my favourite books as a child. So I absolutely HATED the film version of LoTR's.... every change to the story - every unneccassery sequence grated against me like a cheesgrater of the mind. Why get the rights to the "Book of The Century" and then decide "I know, I'll change the story, leave parts out, make parts up - and add loads of stupid action sequences! And lets change the characters roles... after all - I know how to tell a story better than Tolkien"?

2011-12-21 19:05:00 Author: Macnme Posts: 1970

---

I think I read The Hobbit first before Lord of the Rings and remember it feeling very different along with getting a different mental picture, but this looks like more of the same. I was kinda hoping for the director's ideas to evolve from their experience filming LOTR when they came to making this movie, and to take it somewhere new.

2011-12-21 20:25:00 Author: Ayneh Posts: 2454

---

I have been waiting for this for a long time! I'm glad its here, it looks amazing!

2011-12-21 20:38:00 Author: craigmond Posts: 2426

---

Not going to lie... kinda scared me, also looks a bit cheasy, but sometimes cheesy is epic, i like the idea overall, will be waiting for the release. where will it come out at? just the U.K?

2011-12-21 20:59:00 Author: Tyranny68 Posts: 390

---

Dunno...I don't like Tolkien stuff, though I appreciate his visions... This stuff, the first thing I thought was "Hobbit of the Caribbean" Amazing. I think you're the first person that I've met ever to say that Tolkiens stuff are -bad-. I, for one, is very excited. I actually never bothered to read "The Hobbit" until last summer. It's an amazing book and the end was amazing. A great book, nevertheless.

2011-12-22 18:57:00 Author: AbdiHMA Posts: 86

---

It's being made here in New Zealand. I went to Hobbiton when it was a tourist attraction. EHEHEHEHEHEHE. EDIT: New production diary! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150554790416807

2011-12-23 10:51:00 Author: tomodon246 Posts: 624

---

Amazing. I think you're the first person that I've met ever to say that Tolkiens stuff are -bad-. He didn't really say Tolkien's stuff is bad, he said he didn't like it. There's a difference there... People can dislike something but still recognize its quality I confess that "The Hobbit" is the only Tolkien book I read completely through. I read it and I loved it (since then I even re-read it 3 times if I'm not mistaken) and then I tried to read the LoTR trilogy and I couldn't. I found the translation very weird, as if the Portuguese version was a mix of Brazilian Portuguese with Old Portuguese. And the translators had done something I hate which is translating the original names of characters and places. Maybe I should try the English version. Oh, and Macnme? According to Wikipedia: Trouble struck when Marty Katz was sent to New Zealand. Spending four months there, he told Miramax that the films were more likely to cost $150 million, and with Miramax unable to finance this, and with $15 million already spent, they decided to merge the two films into one. On 17 June 1998, Bob Weinstein presented a treatment of a single two-hour film version of the book. He suggested cutting Bree and the Battle of Helm's Deep, "losing or using" Saruman, merging Rohan and Gondor with ?owyn as Boromir's sister, shortening Rivendell and Moria as well as having Ents prevent the Uruk-hai kidnapping Merry and Pippin So it seems that it could have been much, much worse

2011-12-25 05:14:00 Author: SnipySev Posts: 2452

---

I personally cannot wait for The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is classified as my favorite film. The release of this film just isn't coming up fast enough for me!

2011-12-25 23:46:00 Author: Unknown User

---

It's going to be a pile of Hollywood trash - full of un-needed over-the-top action sequences and false tension that weren't in the book. Also, casting Martin Freeman as Bilbo is one of the worst casting decisions ever... the guy CANNOT act, and he ruined HitchHikers Guide the Movie pretty much single-handedly. This should be understood in the context that The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings were probably my favourite books as a child. So I absolutely HATED the film version of LoTR's.... every change to the story - every unneccassery sequence grated against me like a cheesgrater of the mind. Why get the rights to the "Book of The Century" and then decide "I know, I'll change the story, leave parts out, make parts up - and add loads of stupid action sequences! And lets change the characters roles... after all - I know how to tell a story better than Tolkien"? I felt the same way as you until I took a screenwriting class and realised the differences between the two mediums and the restrictions of structure placed upon the visual medium of film. The two mediums are so different they should not be compared directly as the relatively structure-less freedom of books will always be "better" than it's visual counterpart. That being said, I can't wait for The Hobbit. I just today received TLOTR collection on Bluray which I'm watching as I type this.

2011-12-31 08:18:00 Author: n00bsack Posts: 59

---

I felt the same way as you until I took a screenwriting class and realised the differences between the two mediums and the restrictions of structure placed upon the visual medium of film. The two mediums are so different they should not be compared directly as the relatively structure-less freedom of books will always be "better" than it's visual counterpart. That being said, I can't wait for The Hobbit. I just today received TLOTR collection on Bluray which I'm watching as I type this. What is to be gained from adapting something that was created in and for a specefic medium and that won't work as well in anther medium? Other than a short term monetary gain and a long term degredation of the original material. I absolutely detested the way they would inject false jeopardy into just about every sequence. Take the scene in maggots farm .... where Frodo has to make a small leap onto the raft as it leaves the jetty... no mention of that in the book, but in order to inject some "peril" into the film, they have Sam Gangee screaming "JUMP MR.FRODO, YOU CAN DO IT, JUST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOU CAN MAKE IT! GO ON- JUMP! JUMP WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT MR.FRODO! YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT! JUUUUUUMMMMP."... while Frodo makes a slow-motion leap onto the raft, and it looks for a moment like he's not going to make - and then he does make it after all. It was a completely contrived moment...which the entire Lord of the Rings films are chock a block full of. Every single stupid face that an ork pulled to camera, every time Aragorn needlessly throws his sword to impale a baddies head just to look flashy, grated against me. I understand why they've put them in - as you say, they are different mediums, and a cheesy hollywood action blockbuster NEEDS to have lots of cheesy hollywood action sequences shoehorned in. But to do it to a 'sacred' text like Lord of the Rings, in my opinion, is an unforgivable sacreilage.

2011-12-31 10:17:00 Author: Macnme Posts: 1970

Posts: 1077139    Threads: 69970    Members: 9661    Archive-Date: 2019-01-19

Aus dem Archiv wurden alle persönlichen Daten wie Name, Anschrift, Email etc. - aber auch sämtliche Inhalte wie z.B. persönliche Nachrichten - entfernt.
Die Nutzung dieser Webseite erfolgt ohne Speicherung personenbezogener Daten. Es werden keinerlei Cookies, Logs, 3rd-Party-Plugins etc. verwendet.