marquac
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I think after he goes nuts he goes to a temple underneath the Forbidden City and murders Aerith.
Is that the trailer for the Hobbit 3 part one? (They did split the third movie into two part, right?)
Don’t give 'em ideas, you.
Billy Boyd sings The Last Goodbye, the end credits song for The Battle of the Five Armies.
Sounds pretty good.
Are we going to have to endure another 20 minutes of hugging and laughing at the end of this movie? I can imagine Jackson in the editing suite saying “No, we can’t roll the credits yet, this is the end of my epic movie sextology!”
I didn’t even know the trailer was out, lol.
Looks on par with the last 2 movies.
Maybe it’s just because I had read the books before the movies came out, but I thought the pacing for the many endings was pitch perfect for a conclusion to Lord of the Rings.
I don’t think I could bear an extra minute of meandering in the last Hobbit movie though. I’m waiting for a fanedit that condenses the trilogy back into a single movie, which sticks to the book. Less because I care about book purism (I don’t) than because most of the made up bits haven’t been working.
No more Jackson Tolkien films after the conclusion of The Hobbit. Praise be to Eru!
Peter Jackson has said he won’t be making anymore movies based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s work, because the estate won’t let him.
The director made it clear at a press conference for the final Hobbit film, The Battle of The Five Armies, that cooperation would be essential if he were to bring more of the British author’s work to the big screen.
‘Without the cooperation of the Tolkien estate, there can’t be more films,’ Jackson said on Wednesday…
If the Jackson of Fellowship wanted to make a Silmarillion-based film, I’d be thrilled. That Jackson is long dead, though, so this is good news. Christopher Tolkien apparently feels the same way:
The writer’s son Christopher, who was appointed by his father as his literary executor, said that he was disappointed by the way the movies had diluted the artistry of the novels.
He told Le Monde in 2012: 'Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of our time.
‘The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work and what it has become has overwhelmed me. The commercialisation has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.’
Aside from the “get off my lawn” comment about the absurdity of our time, I understand his position perfectly.
I just get worried that’s not a confirmation of no more films so much as it’s a sneaky campaign to get things in motion so they could make more films. Get the buzz out there that "Gosh, we’d love to make more, but those cranky old Tolkiens won’t let us! Plus there’s still that lawsuit between the estate and the studio about the crazy movie accounting that meant the films weren’t “profitable”. Maybe letting Jackson make more films becomes a bargaining chip in that.
Basically I won’t start feeling safe until Jackson is completely retired from movie-making.
HBO needs to do a Silmarillion show after it finishes with GoT. I can wait until then.
Not sure I want a bunch of Maiar sex scenes.
God. Yeah, sex and Tolkien don’t mix.
Well, they would have to, unless he would completely dissolve.
All week, try the veal.
beats them riding on rabbit-drawn sleds
Such small minds. Rabbits having sex on Maiar-drawn sleds is the way to go.
I get the impression that Christopher Tolkien is a bit too controlling when it comes to the Tolkien estate, particularly after reading a recent article about the experiences of various developers of Middle Earth games on dealing with him / the estate. But he’s certainly dead right about the Hobbit movies. When they’re more bombastic and action-packed than the crescendo of Return of the King, you know Jackson has forgotten what he’s supposed to be doing.
It’s his father’s life’s work. I can completely understand why he would be so protective of it.
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Didn’t see this posted, and I found it amusing.
The unabridged audio book is 11 hours. Are audiobooks slow reads?
Edit: even at 11 hours the point still sort of stands
You know those really long text crawls in RPG games where a gravelly voice reads it extremely slowly and portentously? I don’t know about you, but I always end up reading it twice and fast and skipping the voice over. Just imagine an entire book of that!
