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Germany / USA16648 Posts
On December 13 2004 10:51 Slaughter)BiO wrote:
I hated how they took out like the MAJOR encounter with Tom Bombadil in the 1st book -_- And I agree with making the female elf big was stupid. The Elf Lord guy who really helped them owned. The movies where good however. And if one of the writers said they improved on his writing he is a fucking moron.
hm.
i think it's pretty understandable that they didn't include the tom bombadil thingy. it's more of a side story anyway - it's not major in any way, it doesn't give anything to the main plot, and since you cannot cover the whole content of this trilogy in about 10 hours of film it only makes sense to leave this sort of thing out.
it would probably only have confused the part of the cinema audience that hasn't read the books anyway, since they would have wondered why tom doesn't become invisible when he puts on the ring..., even in "pro"-tolkien forums people are discussing a lot why he is quasi immune to the ring's influence. some people claim it might even be eru himself -_-
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He is supposed to be God ;x
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
eru aka illuvatar aka the one is god.....
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The first hour of the fellowship was awesome. Then it just become massively cliched and overacted. Did any1 else spend the whole time watching the 3rd one squirming and embarrased at Hollywoodised it was?
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Norway10161 Posts
I've been a big fan of the books since forever, and never had any real expectations regarding the movies. But I absolutely loved them. Sure, I wanted to see Tom and some other things, but as it is there is no way they could have been any better. People should stop bitching and simply enjoy the fantastic work Peter did on this impossible task.
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What exactly did he do that was above average?
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On December 13 2004 14:04 Servolisk wrote:
What exactly did he do that was above average?
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On December 13 2004 04:50 kaz wrote:
would be nice, after jackson finishes up king kong. i liked the story of the hobbit more than the lord of the rings trilogy.
nice to see, that im not the only one who likes the hobbit more than lotr
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On December 13 2004 14:22 IceLeY wrote:Show nested quote +On December 13 2004 04:50 kaz wrote:
would be nice, after jackson finishes up king kong. i liked the story of the hobbit more than the lord of the rings trilogy. nice to see, that im not the only one who likes the hobbit more than lotr
Second that, but unfortunatly the movie probably won't be what I expect if he does make it. The book is always better than the movie imo.
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On December 13 2004 14:22 IceLeY wrote:Show nested quote +On December 13 2004 04:50 kaz wrote:
would be nice, after jackson finishes up king kong. i liked the story of the hobbit more than the lord of the rings trilogy. nice to see, that im not the only one who likes the hobbit more than lotr
I liked The Hobbit more too =]
Just seemed more magical and epic to me. LotR had all these complications and stuff. The Hobbit just kept things simple.
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Hobbit was the best. forever <3
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On December 13 2004 14:23 CyuntiyuL wrote:Show nested quote +On December 13 2004 14:22 IceLeY wrote:On December 13 2004 04:50 kaz wrote:
would be nice, after jackson finishes up king kong. i liked the story of the hobbit more than the lord of the rings trilogy. nice to see, that im not the only one who likes the hobbit more than lotr Second that, but unfortunatly the movie probably won't be what I expect if he does make it. The book is always better than the movie imo.
I don't see the point of putting imo at the end of that. EVERYBODY says the book is better than the movie. Everybody you ever meet that can actually read anyways..
The only better part of the movie is that it takes 2 hours. I won't even say that it is your opinion as you've had every teacher through every grade repeat a similar thought to you.
I just felt like ranting..I dunno why.
FrEaK
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ah, ive been tryin to find info on this, i heard about this like almost a year ago now, but i thought it was just something i was hoping would happen, but im glad to see it's true.
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Are they gonna do a silmarrilion? 
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On December 13 2004 09:08 LTT wrote:
Yeah, that would be great because the Hobbit + LotR + King Kong would forever be known in history as the Jackson Five.
ROFL ART~
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On December 13 2004 16:22 Hippopotamus wrote: Are they gonna do a silmarrilion?
oh man, if they do, i'll see it five times in the same day
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wow hes making a king kong movie? lol any details?
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Austin10833 Posts
On December 13 2004 05:26 Servolisk wrote:
I've already seen a trailer for it a long time ago.
If he makes the Hobbit I won't make the mistake of seeing it like I did with the lord of the rings. I really liked the books but he did a horrible job. It makes me sick to hear his fellow writers say how they improved Tolkien's writing. Atleast one of them did anyway. I didn't think he would do lotr justice (injustice as I now think), but I thought I'll go see the movie and I might be surprised, and if it is bad it is no big deal. But it is a big deal to me because now when I am picturing something from the books all I can see is Peter Jackson's mass marketed movie.
I guess you weren't really paying attention during the movies, seeing as the "trailer" for The Hobbit is just scenes from the films editted together by a fan, with the song used in the trailer for TTT. Ok, so the films didn't pander to your notions of the importance of certain elements, I'm deeply sorry for your loss. I don't think you can fully conceive how much Peter Jackson staked his career on a hunch with these films. He convinced a studio to do something that had never been done before, and to invest such an enormous ammount of money in a relatively unproven director and unfinished scripts speaks volumes about his dedication. A director looking to make a blockbuster gets $80M to make Bad Boys II, not $300M to adapt a piece of fantasy literature.
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On December 13 2004 09:08 LTT wrote:
Yeah, that would be great because the Hobbit + LotR + King Kong would forever be known in history as the Jackson Five.
jackson five... sounds familiar
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On December 13 2004 10:21 InFiNitY[pG] wrote:Show nested quote +On December 13 2004 10:02 Hautamaki wrote:
I have 2 very serious beefs with the movies. 2 scenes MAKE that trilogy the best thing that has ever been written. The first is the confrontation between Gandalf and Gothmog at the gates of Gondor after grond smashes them in. The second is the confrontation between Eowyn and Gothmog after Gothmog slays Theoden. Those 2 scenes are the best things in the history of literature. Jackson scrapped the first and pissed all over the second. Every other decision they made in the movies was understandable/justifiable/forgivable, but those 2 scenes were begging to have a movie made about them. They were the entire justification for making those movies in the first place. And they got shit on. I can't understand it. That and the invincible ghost army that kills everything within 2 seconds
seriously, they all looked like fuckin caspers(translucent blobs flying around), when i read the pook i pictured them as killable walking skeletons with real swords, not a huge green swarm that flew 100 miles per hour, it was almost comical to watch.
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