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hitman133
United States1425 Posts
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white_horse
1019 Posts
peter jackson better direct the hobbit because all other directors will fuck up the movie, just like the way 99% of hollywood movie adaptations are. | ||
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Madkipz
Norway1643 Posts
On April 15 2011 05:05 Grettin wrote: If i say it captured my attention as much as it could have, would your theory be wrong? People read different books. Some people like different books than others. If it isn't your cup of tea it doesn't make the book poorly written. I agree with the Silmarillion movie talk. NEver!!! we need to streamline the books and appeal to the lowest common denominator! CONSOLISE THE BOOKS! I would say that Lotr atleast got it done right. Sure the book will forever remain better than the movie in many peoples eyes but ATLEAST IT IS NO phantom menace. | ||
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Ryuu314
United States12679 Posts
The Hobbit movie would be so sick to see though... | ||
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BlueBird.
United States3889 Posts
On April 15 2011 05:28 Ryuu314 wrote: I loved the Hobbit and LOTR. The other stuff was just way too dense for me. They practically read like textbooks :[ If you were really into the whole Middle Earth stuff then it's definitely really well done seeing how in-depth Tolkien went into describing Middle Earth lore. One thing you definitely have to credit to Tolkien is his incredible imagination and attention to detail. The Hobbit movie would be so sick to see though... Yeah some of the stuff is really dense, and to be honest, I felt like I was reading it like a textbook when i read a lot of it, since I didn't pull too much information out of it. There are some really awesome story's that happen and a lot of cool stuff about Middle Earth to be found. Not too sure how excited I am about the Hobbit to be honest, though it's more for very sad personal reasons than me thinking it will be an exciting movie, I am going to go see it in theater's and hopefully it will be a blast. | ||
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Ghost151
United States290 Posts
In particular I loved the Battle of the Five Armies, so epic. The way the events lead up to the outburst of this battle and the reemergence of previous characters onto the scene was so awesome. Especially Beorn. Fuck yes Beorn is a BAMF. They better not screw this part of it up, at least. Yeah, and The Hobbit has something LOTR can't top : A dragon. Hell yeah. | ||
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Madkipz
Norway1643 Posts
On April 15 2011 05:42 Ghost151 wrote: sick. There's so much in the The Hobbit that kicks the crap out of the LOTR storyline. In particular I loved the Battle of the Five Armies, so epic. The way the events lead up to the outburst of this battle and the reemergence of previous characters onto the scene was so awesome. Especially Beorn. Fuck yes Beorn is a BAMF. They better not screw this part of it up, at least. Yeah, and The Hobbit has something LOTR can't top : A dragon. Hell yeah. and alot more dwarves. Cant all be used for comic relief and be mutilated beyond belief when compared with their book based characters now can they? >BD | ||
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nbaker
United States1341 Posts
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gozima
Canada602 Posts
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Grettin
42381 Posts
On April 15 2011 05:56 gozima wrote: I just saw this on the youtubes. + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfesknLk5uI&feature=player_embedded Third time someone posts it. | ||
MrHoon
10183 Posts
just MAYBE MAYBE | ||
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Thorakh
Netherlands1788 Posts
And for gods sake I hope the movie stays true to the original story. | ||
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johanngrunt
Hong Kong1555 Posts
i lolled so hard when peter jackson and ian mckellen were riffing on it and the heat during filming. | ||
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Voltaire
United States1485 Posts
On April 15 2011 05:42 Ghost151 wrote: sick. There's so much in the The Hobbit that kicks the crap out of the LOTR storyline. In particular I loved the Battle of the Five Armies, so epic. The way the events lead up to the outburst of this battle and the reemergence of previous characters onto the scene was so awesome. Especially Beorn. Fuck yes Beorn is a BAMF. They better not screw this part of it up, at least. Yeah, and The Hobbit has something LOTR can't top : A dragon. Hell yeah. There's no way you have even read The Lord of the Rings. The Battle of Five Armies is nothing compared to certain parts of LotR like Theoden's charge at the Battle of the Pelennor fields. But you probably don't even know what that is. Personally I've read the Hobbit twice and The Lord of the Rings three times, both are great books but The Hobbit obviously had a younger audience in mind. LotR isn't for everyone. There is a lot of description and "slower" moving parts, yes, but for those of us who can deal with it it is an amazing book. Not even just a book, but an adventure. | ||
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Zorkmid
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Manit0u
Poland17542 Posts
On April 15 2011 14:14 MrHoon wrote: maybe the silmarillion can work as a huge budgeted miniseries for HBO just MAYBE MAYBE Silmarilion is a bit hard. I think they should start with something simpler, like The Unfinished Tales. Some stories there would fit nicely into LotR, I bet a lot of people would be eager to learn about the origins of Gandalf, Celeborn and Galadriela etc. On April 15 2011 04:50 Falling wrote: If you have the time, these lectures are interesting: http://www.tolkienprofessor.com/ (A current professor analyzing Tolkien's works.) This website is absolutely dreadful. Horrible, tiled light background with fonts defaulting to system colours (which in my case is light grey instead of black, making it unreadable) etc. Can't believe that the site has been created in 2010. It looks as if someone created it in MS Office back in the 90's... | ||
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feanor1
United States1899 Posts
I am sad to report that Rob Kazinsky, who was cast in the role of Fili, is having to leave The Hobbit and return home, for personal reasons. Rob has been terrific to work with and his enthusiasm and infectious sense of humour will be missed by all of us. I should say that Rob's departure will not affect ongoing filming of The Hobbit, nor will it impact work done to date, as we had yet to film much of Fili's storyline. At the moment we are shooting scenes featuring Bilbo without the Dwarves, which will give us time to find a new Fili. I'll keep everyone posted with updates as they come. Cheers, Peter J It appears the an actor has dropped out of The Hobbit less than 2 weeks in. Hopefully this doesn't delay it much if at all | ||
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Apolo
Portugal1259 Posts
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Thereisnosaurus
Australia1822 Posts
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hobbit-J-R-Tolkien/dp/0007106777 If you can get a copy of this edition of the hobbit audiobook, you will fall in love. my mum copied a set onto casettes way back when I was like 6 or 7, and I literally wore them through, I must have listened to it 40 or 50 times, often back to back. I bought a digital version of it recently just so I could listen to it again. Shaw has the most incredible voice for reading tolkien, he does a better gandalf than ian mckellen. It really is spellbinding, I wish I could find a sample for you but I can't. If anyone more resourceful could do so that would be awesome | ||
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Maginor
Norway505 Posts
On April 24 2011 21:45 Apolo wrote: Just to add to the genius of Peter Jackson, if you didn't know how they did frodo appear so small and gandalf so big, it didn't have any digital change. It was all just optical illusions Not in all of the scenes, though, and it wasn't Peter Jackson who did that, it was his team. | ||
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