04-16-2007, 07:27 PM | #121 |
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yeah, Legolas (the arrow) was a real twit. He finally shattered Eomer always shoots well.
Alan Lee is awesome! I bought "The Hobbit" version that he illustrated.
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jokejokejokejoke! (I think Gaffer put it the best)
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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04-16-2007, 11:24 PM | #123 | |
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04-28-2007, 12:27 PM | #124 | |
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I don't wanna see no movie that goes "Gandalf knocks on Bilbo's door, AND NOW EVERYONE'S IN ELROND'S HOUSE!" I think it's better to clearly explain events, rather than skipping all kinds of important parts of the story. Last edited by Peter_20 : 04-28-2007 at 12:28 PM. |
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07-30-2007, 07:10 PM | #125 |
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The Hobbit Movie Will Happen
I'd love to see a Hobbit Movie. Does it matter all that much who directs however? Peter Jackson did as far as I am concerned do an outstanding job on the Lord of the Rings, but does this mean there could not be another equally talented Peter Jackson out there?
The important point I feel is that a Hobbit movie does ultimately become reality, irregardless of who directs it in the end. |
07-31-2007, 02:33 PM | #126 |
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*tugs at Wooley's sleeve*
psst...irregardless is a double negative...
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08-05-2007, 10:49 PM | #128 |
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You just love contradicting people, don't you?
...Which argument?
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The more time that passes, the less likely that Ian McKellen will play Gandalf in the Hobbit or any other film. (He is getting older, like everyone else ) At some point it will be too late for him to play the role. I did not think that he (Ian McKellen) did a bad job as Gandalf. At times he played the bumbling fool, but I think this had more to do with direction than skills as an actor. I still am partial to Gandalf from the animated cartoon, The Hobbit. The voice of John Huston seemed just right to me.
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08-09-2007, 09:53 AM | #132 |
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It doesn't matter who plays who or who directs a Hobbit movie, it'll clean up at the box office and all of us will see it. Then we can spend the next year criticizing every little piece of it as we did with PJ's movies because that's us.
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A mini-series would be an interesting format for the hobbit. (I doubt it will happen, but it would be interesting.)
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I like the idea of a mini-series. I would schedule my time so I could watch it even though I rarely watch much TV any more. It would be nice to see it in a form that would allow more of the story to be told instead of having it pared down for a single movie. |
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Oh, shut up. Ian McKellen is a highly skilled actor. I agree that he wasn't the best as Gandalf, but can we please keep the homophobia in check?
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08-16-2007, 05:33 PM | #136 |
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No kidding.
I thought he was brilliant as Gandalf, and I had no idea he was gay at the time. Because, frankly, it doesn't really matter. |
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So. Aside from side-swipes and body checks, can someone please sum up the developments of a Hobbit film and whatever was selected as "a second prequel"?
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Okay, looked for myself:
http://www.ifmagazine.com/new.asp?article=4886 The Flatulent One is apparently eyeing another Tolkien book to make unrecognizable...
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"...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. |
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The Hobbit is a much simpler story than the Lord of the Rings with different pacing (as we all know it was written for young children) and tone; if anything a movie with the same tone of PJ's LOTR would actually have to draw things out more - esp the Battle of the Five Armies (which Bilbo really does not participate in). I would like to see what PJ would do with Mirkwood (as creepiness is what he likes best). As far as casting is concerned if it is a New Line/PJ production then I would want Ian as Gandalf (and if you are squeamish about a gay man playing Gandalf then you don't know actors all that well). Bilbo however I would expect someone besides Ian Holm but I it wouldn't surprise me if he were to jump on board. However if PJ is not involved I would imagine none of the actors from LOTR would care much to participate (caveat being $). In any case the LOTR movies grossed over 2.9 BILLION dollars so of course The Hobbit will be made.
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