My precioussss! That's greet mon, the news I was waiting for. /img/vbsmilies/htf/smile.gif
I guess you didn't like the LotR EE then. /img/vbsmilies/htf/smiley_wink.gif /img/vbsmilies/htf/biggrin.gif Certainly, even the theatrical RotK got a bit bloated by the end, not to mention the EE version of it.Originally Posted by Jason Charlton
One can only hope that should his involvement in Hobbit become official, it would serve as an opportunity for Jackson to regain his top form as director who (as he brilliantly did with the original LoTR trilogy) can keep focus on the story itself rather than the spectacle of the "telling of the story".
Originally Posted by Adam_S
The LoTR EEs are not nearly as good as the theatrical editions. The Hobbit is a slim volume in comparison to the LOTR 'novels'. It is already structured beautifully for the pacing of a movie and without losing any scenes they could do a 160-180 minute version that was faithful and brilliant.
Instead we're going to get a 320-360 minute version that will be bloated and chuck full of a bunch of bullshit filler with Aragorn and Gandalf and Saruman to placate the drooling fan-orc hordes.
But how many places are visited in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings? If it's only two places then it would be fairly easy to work around it.Originally Posted by dpippel
The NZ locations were as much a character in the LOTR trilogy as Gandalf, Aragorn, Frodo, and Sam. Those landscapes helped Jackson define his vision of Middle Earth. Shooting The Hobbit elsewhere would be problematic at best IMO. I really hope this issue gets resolved and the production films there.
Middle Earth is Middle Earth. Moving the production out of New Zealand would change that IMO.Originally Posted by Brian Borst
But how many places are visited in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings? If it's only two places then it would be fairly easy to work around it.
Totally agree. It was pretty good with Peter.Originally Posted by mattCR
Lovely Bones was pretty good. It was not at all what people expected it to be, because it was a much simpler story, but it was well crafted.
I know I may be asking for too much; just a director with an ego strong enough to not insert himself between the source material and the audience and be satisfied that bringing the actual story to the big screen as reasonably close to as written as feasible for a 2+ hour movie is the best possible result. Now this may be as much a fantasy as The Hobbit itself given whose names have been attached past and present but there are some directors that can actually do that. There are still thousands a decisions that must be made by the director to make a great film and not everyone can do it as well as another. Just skip decisions about changing the story, characters, and tone in an attempt to make it better than the book.Originally Posted by Don Solosan
You don't want much, do you, Chuck? You want them to remain faithful to the book... except where you think the changes will be "more effective." Not much room for opinionated arguments there, nossir!