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Originally Posted by mousepod
To continue the derail for a moment - the Blu-Ray is on its way to me right now - but the PS3 is being repaired by Sony (blah) - so it'll be a couple of weeks.
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WhaaaA? What happened to the Ps3?
And WOW I can't believe how harsh you guys are on PJ and Company. Or those that thought that the first LotR was great and the last two sucked (sorry, but there were two moments in TTT that brought me to tears -- when the ents attacked Isengard, and when Gandalf showed up on his horse in Helms Deep.... and I thought the battle sequences and Shelob were spectacular in Return of the King). I loved the movies. The only movies I've seen more than once in the theatre are: Rocky Horror, Amelie, Triplets of Belleville, and the LotR trilogy (in extended edition, no less). I'm of the opinion that PJ is fvcking brilliant.
FYI -- I'm re-reading the novel and PJ changed WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY more than I remembered (I read LotR once, a few years before the movies came out). Besides the very general storyline, many of the characterizations, locations, etc. were completely changed to make the story more cinematic. For some reason I thought it was just "little changes" here and there (with the exception of the Scouring of the Shire ending) but that is not the case.
So if you're such a "purist" that if it didn't come from Tolkien's pen, it's crap, then I'm sorry. A filmed version of exactly what I'm reading in LotR would be boring as sh*t. It is interesting to me because of the backstory that I'm WAY more familiar with than the first time I read it, where I skimmed over all the "history" stuff and had no appreciation for what had happened prior to the story upon my first reading.
I've been involved over the last year in Lord of the Rings Online, which has lots of the locations from "Fellowship of the Ring" but also entire locations that are just mentioned in the "history" books -- Angmar, Evendim, Forochel, Helegrod, Carn Dum -- and compelling locations and stories have been made for these areas -- many of them just made from scratch by the game company.
I have no doubt that if video game programmers could come up with this stuff, someone like Guillermo Del Toro, who I also think is a fvcking brilliant director, would come up with ways to a) make The Hobbit more cinematic and b) make a sequel set in the same world which isn't crap. What I mean is I don't think the idea is a crap idea from the outset.
What I had thought originally was that they were SPLITTING The Hobbit into 2 parts (which would be way too long for a simple story). But I don't think that creating The Hobbit 2 is a creatively bankrupt proposition, or that good things cannot be done with it because it isn't expressly a "Tolkien" story, or whatnot, as long as it doesn't conflict with what happens in LotR.
The title though, has to go. Hobbit 2: Electric Boogaloo! That's not hot.