He's filmed/is filming a lot of the Hobbit and Lotr appendices stuff though, Dol Guldur and Necromancer etc. He'll make it work.
Walter said:I'll probably enjoy it as well. Even though I wasn't a big fan of Jackson's trilogy, I always liked The Hobbit as a book better than Lord of the Rings. But three movies—the equivalent of the Lord of the Rings trilogy? It's just absurd. The Hobbit is A book.
NightCrawler said:I like The Hobbit better as well, because its not completely bloated by Tolkien telling us about shit we don’t need to know, and now we have Jackson turning it into a bloated trilogy.
Remember, this is the man who turned the simple pulpy story of a giant gorilla climbing the Empire State Building into an overblown, self-indulgent 200 minute bore. He just doesn’t know how to get to the point.
This is already making me feel sick.Johnstantine said:...this newfound trilogy.
Walter said:This is already making me feel sick.
NightCrawler said:Remember, this is the man who turned the simple pulpy story of a giant gorilla climbing the Empire State Building into an overblown, self-indulgent 200 minute bore. He just doesn’t know how to get to the point.
...What? It's a different book.hellrasinbrasin said:From my perspective if anything was worth in the telling it would have been done so during The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
hellrasinbrasin said:I love The Lord of the Rings Trilogy like I Love the Original Star Wars Trilogy... That being said I have no intention of watching The Hobbit Trilogy. From my perspective if anything was worth in the telling it would have been done so during The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. That having been said this is one film series I'll be taking a pass on.
hellrasinbrasin said:From my perspective if anything was worth in the telling it would have been done so during The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
Griffith said:AI think after his failures since the LOTR movies Peter Jackson has realized this is all anyone cares to see him do. So, he should milk it for all its worth.
hellrasinbrasin said:From my perspective if anything was worth in the telling it would have been done so during The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
Walter said:...What? It's a different book.
Johnstantine said:That's like saying Alien should have explained more about Prometheus.
Really sounds like you're talking out of your ass, dude.hellrasinbrasin said:I'm not arguing that I know that the Hobbit Films/Book is completely different from the Lord of the Rings films/Books. I'm saying that I think we're all suffering from Hobbit overload.
Except the difference here is that one is a series of books where as the other is a series of films. The world of Alien vs the World of Tolkien. With Tolkien a writer director has a wide birth of material to use for films. With Alien you can only enhance or expand upon pre-existing materials or create a new story that changes all notions of what was a known fact where the pre-existing material is concerned.
hellrasinbrasin said:I'm not arguing that I know that the Hobbit Films/Book is completely different from the Lord of the Rings films/Books. I'm saying that I think we're all suffering from Hobbit overload.
Except the difference here is that one is a series of books where as the other is a series of films. The world of Alien vs the World of Tolkien. With Tolkien a writer director has a wide birth of material to use for films. With Alien you can only enhance or expand upon pre-existing materials or create a new story that changes all notions of what was a known fact where the pre-existing material is concerned.
Oburi said:I don't think so. He seemed to be perfectly fine sitting along as producer and letting del Toro take over director duties.
Oburi said:I think there's a lot more going on than just the simple "Jackson is milking this material because he fails at everything else" mindset.
Oburi said:I don't even think it's fair to say he's been a failure since LOTR's. And not enough time has passed for him to be a Lucas (not yet).
Griffith said:Of course there's more to it, but that doesn't mean it's not still true. Also, I think that mildly pro-Jackson perspective is more demonstrative of a mindset than my frank assessment of his post-LOTR career.
Bekul said:I'll say at this point I'm looking forward to these there a hell of a lot more than I am the three Berserk... films.
hellrasinbrasin said:And on the subject that Bekul has brought up Hollywood should have asked Peter Jackson to adapt Berserk for the big screen since he's The King of Fantasy films.
hellrasinbrasin said:And on the subject that Bekul has brought up Hollywood should have asked Peter Jackson to adapt Berserk for the big screen since he's The King of Fantasy films.