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Sion · 09-18-2003, 07:52 AM

I've read The Hobbit a half dozen times. Read the entire LoTR Trilogy 4 times. Loved all 4 books moreso than any other 4 books I can think of. Truly THE MOST AMAZING story ever told.

as for the movies: easily the best possible adaptation one could hope for. PJ has just astounded me. sure, there are differences, but they are mostly subtle and relatively unimportant. as has been mentioned, the ONLY way they could have done the films perfectly true to the books would be to make each one a 6-8 hour film. and it would have taken them 10 years (instead of the 3 they did spend) to film it all. and it would have cost about $2 billion. which means they would have to charge about $50 per seat for theater viewing. (and guess what? I'd still see them the day they came out, but then, Im a LOTR fanatic like you cant believe).

look at it this way. given how shitty a job they COULD have done, lets just all be glad that PJ did a really good job. How bad would a "Hollywood" LOTR have been?

<shudder>

I'd rather blow Gollum than even consider the possibility.

Jackson took something that most would have said was IMPOSSIBLE to film properly and made two (soon to be 3) of the greatest films of all time from it. He is to be praised.

fuckin A!

09-18-2003, 07:52 AM	#51 (permalink)
Sion Dumb all over...a little ugly on the side Location: In the room where the giant fire puffer works, and the torture never stops.	I've read The Hobbit a half dozen times. Read the entire LoTR Trilogy 4 times. Loved all 4 books moreso than any other 4 books I can think of. Truly THE MOST AMAZING story ever told. as for the movies: easily the best possible adaptation one could hope for. PJ has just astounded me. sure, there are differences, but they are mostly subtle and relatively unimportant. as has been mentioned, the ONLY way they could have done the films perfectly true to the books would be to make each one a 6-8 hour film. and it would have taken them 10 years (instead of the 3 they did spend) to film it all. and it would have cost about $2 billion. which means they would have to charge about $50 per seat for theater viewing. (and guess what? I'd still see them the day they came out, but then, Im a LOTR fanatic like you cant believe). look at it this way. given how shitty a job they COULD have done, lets just all be glad that PJ did a really good job. How bad would a "Hollywood" LOTR have been? <shudder> I'd rather blow Gollum than even consider the possibility. Jackson took something that most would have said was IMPOSSIBLE to film properly and made two (soon to be 3) of the greatest films of all time from it. He is to be praised. fuckin A! __________________ He's the best, of course, of all the worst. Some wrong been done, he done it first. -fz I jus' want ta thank you...falettinme...be mice elf...agin...