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SoulSever
Canada779 Posts
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Erasme
Bahamas15899 Posts
On November 05 2011 07:13 SoulSever wrote: A Silmarillion movie would be mind blowing and epically long 10hours of Tolkien, won't be long :p | ||
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Thorakh
Netherlands1788 Posts
Blasphemy! | ||
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Kimaker
United States2131 Posts
...WTF. IFUCKINGHATE3DIT'SAGODDAMNPIECEOFSHITGIMMICK!!! Sigh* Okay, I'm good. Still pumped, still gonna go see this opening night all dressed up and shit. But I really fucking hate 3-D. That being said...anyone else planning on dressing up? | ||
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Kinetik_Inferno
United States1431 Posts
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Shebuha
Canada1335 Posts
On December 13 2004 05:08 Liquid`Drone wrote: they could easily use a new bilbo  and god I hope they make it smaug would be sooooooooooooooooo awesome. YEAH!!! Smaug better be fucking amazing. I should hope the whole movie would be awesome, but Smaug better have a sick voice actor playing him!!! MY BREATH - DEATH!!!!!! Skip to 3:30 to hear the most epic dialogue. | ||
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Hertzy
Finland355 Posts
On November 05 2011 06:08 Biff The Understudy wrote: I never managed to watch Lord of the Ring until the end. As much as I like Tolkien novel, and although some image were really strong and some passages really successful, I really thought Peter Jackson did overall a terrible job. Don't think I will bother watching him slaughtering The Hobbit, which is my favorite Tolkien book. Now the thing here is, the trilogy was butchered because Jackson had to fit six books each worthy of a three-hour movie into just three movies. Now we have one book being split to two movies, which I predict will involve a lot of scenery shots. I'm sort of worried about Galadriel showing up, and I hope to hell Frodo will only show up in a framing device. | ||
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Steveling
Greece10806 Posts
On November 05 2011 06:51 turnip wrote: Edit: On topic: I can't wait to see Smaug and the random orc tunnels and the 15,000 Dwarves or whatever  Off topic (high school essay tiem): I love the LotR books, and I've re-read them all 5 times (the Hobbit only twice). I also really enjoyed the movies, for somewhat different reasons. I like the books better, even though the writing is not nearly as good as some people seem to think. In fact, by today's standards, Tolkien's writing was mediocre at best, especially The Hobbit. A lot of scenes, description, and even a few subplots were awkwardly done, poorly placed or simply too long. Rivendell, Tom Bombadil and the long, dull, boring, gritty, dull, long trek to Mount Doom stand out as weak points. The movies fixed a lot of problems in Tolkien's storytelling but, of course, had the problem of being a movie. Pandering to the masses, the idiotic implementation of the dead road subplot, the bland representation of the already-bland elves, removal of several great scenes, etc. What the books and movies both had was... sheer epicness. Has there ever been any fictional world created so thoroughly and consistently? I mean, damn. The amount of random stuff, lore, culture, and continuity in the books is what makes them awesome. If you can't get completely into the world, you probably wouldn't even like the books. But most can, and do. You feel like you're there, watching history happen, learning about the world along with your naive, oblivious hobbits. You understand the import of the battles, the confrontations, the difficulties and the ever-present threat of failure and complete destruction just as viscerally as the characters do. Useless (plot-wise) bits like Tom Bombadil and the scouring of the Shire (wtf was that anyway lol) don't bother you much because they're part of the experience of the world. Because that's what the books are: an experience, and not just a story. The movies are just a pretty good and very entertaining approximation of the books. I find myself having no trouble keeping the books separate from the visuals in the movies. I can apply the stuff I know from the books to the movies and enjoy the beautiful Shire and the sweet fight scenes and the "I-am-a-total-boss" Balrog. TLDR: I love everything, books and movies and kittens and stuff! All for what they are! :3 Burn the witch! Seriously though, you can't present your own opinion as a fact. Many people (and I'm one of em) love the Tom Bombadil mini arc and find the journey to Mount Doom anything but tedious. Also you might want to consider how you phrase your opinion, about Tolkien's knowledge of how to write a book, since he was an academic legend in the field of philology and linguistics. I also can't comprehend your view on modern fantasy. Imo 99.9% of the new books are complete and utter trash. *Sorry if I'm coming off a bit too aggressive, but I'm a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge fanboy. | ||
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emc
United States3088 Posts
I'm done... I'm DONE! I quit, I didn't ask for fame! All I wanted to do was translate! | ||
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Grettin
42381 Posts
On November 05 2011 09:16 emc wrote: no new trailers? no new 'news'? Nothing!? then why the fuck did people bump this thread I'm done... I'm DONE! I quit, I didn't ask for fame! All I wanted to do was translate! Check the last page. New production video up if you haven't seen it. | ||
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Kaien
Belgium178 Posts
On November 05 2011 07:33 Kimaker wrote: It's in 3-D. ...WTF. IFUCKINGHATE3DIT'SAGODDAMNPIECEOFSHITGIMMICK!!! Sigh* Okay, I'm good. Still pumped, still gonna go see this opening night all dressed up and shit. But I really fucking hate 3-D. That being said...anyone else planning on dressing up? 3D i overrated but man thats no reason to hate it and not see the movie, you can always still see it in 2D | ||
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Suvorov
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Assault_1
Canada1950 Posts
On November 05 2011 13:04 Suvorov wrote: Deard lord, no, stay away from the Hobbit jackson, you mcfailed LOTR. ur a mcfail, LOTR was amazing | ||
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xXFireandIceXx
Canada4296 Posts
On November 05 2011 13:04 Suvorov wrote: Deard lord, no, stay away from the Hobbit jackson, you mcfailed LOTR. Um.......LOTR was perhaps one of the greatest feats in cinema... Use of film techniques was just amazing | ||
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overt
United States9006 Posts
On November 05 2011 07:33 Kimaker wrote: It's in 3-D. ...WTF. IFUCKINGHATE3DIT'SAGODDAMNPIECEOFSHITGIMMICK!!! Sigh* Okay, I'm good. Still pumped, still gonna go see this opening night all dressed up and shit. But I really fucking hate 3-D. That being said...anyone else planning on dressing up? It's likely, in fact it's almost definite, that you don't have to go see it in 3D. There will probably be 2D showings as soon as opening day (although if you go to a midnight showing they might only have it in 3D). | ||
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tomatriedes
New Zealand5356 Posts
On November 05 2011 13:04 Suvorov wrote: Deard lord, no, stay away from the Hobbit jackson, you mcfailed LOTR. LOTR obviously had to cut out a huge amount from the books but that's the reality of modern cinema. People still complained that they were too long. I think he did about as good a good as he could have and I'm a huge fan of the books. The casting was completely spot-on (Viggo Mortensen was perfect as Aragorn) in my opinion and the battles looked just as they should have. Imagine if it had been Michael Bay or one of his ilk directing. *shudder* | ||
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wishbones
Canada2600 Posts
has anyone played it, was it fun!???? i remember playing on ps2 but i never heard of anything about hobbit/lotr so i just threw the game away as the controls were really hard, that and i never played sc1 at the time, so i had no real GAME SKILLS. now when i play games i adapt to them like they are ilk. since in comparison to sc any game is easy to get used to. omg, i swear i saw this in grade 5 or 6. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077687/ | ||
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AutomatonOmega
United States706 Posts
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AutomatonOmega
United States706 Posts
On November 05 2011 13:31 tomatriedes wrote: LOTR obviously had to cut out a huge amount from the books but that's the reality of modern cinema. People still complained that they were too long. I think he did about as good a good as he could have and I'm a huge fan of the books. The casting was completely spot-on (Viggo Mortensen was perfect as Aragorn) in my opinion and the battles looked just as they should have. Imagine if it had been Michael Bay or one of his ilk directing. *shudder* I was glad they announced The Hobbit as two movies, it means the material will be more true to the base material. As it is, to fit everything cut from LOTR, they would've had to make 4 movies in total instead of 3. | ||
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TyrantPotato
Australia1541 Posts
my cousin is working on the CGI/special effects of this film he also worked on avatar | ||
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