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The Hobbit to become a trilogy

Started by Solmyr, July 30, 2012, 10:56:09 AM

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Eddie Teach

#45
July 30, 2012, 07:14:49 PM
I enjoyed Avatar. More than the LOTR movies in fact. It flowed better, was easier to take in one sitting, despite similar length.
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dps

#46
July 30, 2012, 07:43:28 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 30, 2012, 05:04:02 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on July 30, 2012, 05:02:50 PM
King Kong is the greatest movie EVER. Fact.

Fuck Charles Grodin, man.  Fag.

To be fair, he may not have meant that version.  Perhaps you should be telling him to fuck Robert Armstrong or Jack Black instead.

Siege

#47
July 30, 2012, 07:51:18 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 30, 2012, 11:41:36 AM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 30, 2012, 11:32:44 AM
Quote from: garbon on July 30, 2012, 10:58:54 AM
Yes because bloat and lack of efficient editing is a positive? Color me skeptical.
I agree with him. garbon is right.

Yes.  Sometime less is more.  The theatrical version of Return of the King could have used some trimming.  For instance it didn't need 5 endings or a green cloud of ghosts.

Less is more? Are you fucking Obama?

Yeay for the trilogy, yeay for free enterprise in cinema.



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Razgovory

#48
July 30, 2012, 07:53:25 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 30, 2012, 07:51:18 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 30, 2012, 11:41:36 AM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 30, 2012, 11:32:44 AM
Quote from: garbon on July 30, 2012, 10:58:54 AM
Yes because bloat and lack of efficient editing is a positive? Color me skeptical.
I agree with him. garbon is right.

Yes.  Sometime less is more.  The theatrical version of Return of the King could have used some trimming.  For instance it didn't need 5 endings or a green cloud of ghosts.

Less is more? Are you fucking Obama?

Yeay for the trilogy, yeay for free enterprise in cinema.

No, I'm not engaged in sex with the President.  Don't be stupid.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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garbon

#49
July 30, 2012, 07:53:48 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 30, 2012, 07:51:18 PM
Less is more? Are you fucking Obama?

If you had a little economy with your posts, we'd all do better.
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dps

#50
July 30, 2012, 07:57:41 PM
Quote from: garbon on July 30, 2012, 07:53:48 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 30, 2012, 07:51:18 PM
Less is more? Are you fucking Obama?

If you had a little economy with your posts, we'd all do better.

Economy?  Heck, if he had a little sanity with his posts, we'd all do better.

Sheilbh

#51
July 30, 2012, 08:01:11 PM
Quote from: garbon on July 30, 2012, 10:58:54 AM
Yes because bloat and lack of efficient editing is a positive? Color me skeptical.
Yep.  And those problems have never afflicted Jackson films before :bleeding:

This may end up as another part of my argument why fanboys shouldn't be allowed near adaptations. 

Strip it back to its barebones and make it cinematically compelling.

Admittedly my dream version of LOTR would've been like a Hobbit 'The Road'...:mellow:
Let's bomb Russia!

Razgovory

#52
July 30, 2012, 08:04:57 PM
I'm not sure if a movie where Frodo and Sam starve to death five miles outside of the shire would be that compelling.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#53
July 30, 2012, 08:09:43 PM
Quote from: dps on July 30, 2012, 07:57:41 PM
Economy?  Heck, if he had a little sanity with his posts, we'd all do better.

If Siege was lucid, he wouldn't be so funny.
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Monoriu

#54
July 30, 2012, 08:41:22 PM
Quote from: garbon on July 30, 2012, 05:00:53 PM
Quote from: grumbler on July 30, 2012, 04:57:34 PM
I don't think Hobbits in bed was in the edited version.  Dunno what "Frodo-Sam Mooney eyes" is, so I'm not sure whether that was in the edited version or not.

I already said what it was early in this thread. The unnecessary seen of Frodo and Sam chilling on Mount Doom - essentially professing their gay love for one another...which then was oddly book-ended by Sam suddenly getting married. :D

Pretty sure there was a very early scene showing that Sam was interested in the girl.  I didn't get the feeling that there was any gay love between Sam and Frodo.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what is wrong with hobbits jumping on a bed :unsure:

CountDeMoney

#55
July 30, 2012, 08:46:55 PM
Quote from: dps on July 30, 2012, 07:43:28 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 30, 2012, 05:04:02 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on July 30, 2012, 05:02:50 PM
King Kong is the greatest movie EVER. Fact.

Fuck Charles Grodin, man.  Fag.

To be fair, he may not have meant that version.  Perhaps you should be telling him to fuck Robert Armstrong or Jack Black instead.

He knows what he did.  He left an opening.

Queequeg

#56
July 30, 2012, 09:50:02 PM
QuoteAdmittedly my dream version of LOTR would've been like a Hobbit 'The Road'.
:lmfao:
Worth it just for the scene where Frodo and Sam discover the half-eaten baby.
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grumbler

#57
July 31, 2012, 06:55:30 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on July 30, 2012, 08:41:22 PM
Pretty sure there was a very early scene showing that Sam was interested in the girl.  I didn't get the feeling that there was any gay love between Sam and Frodo.

You probably saw the version I saw, not the one garbo saw (or thinks he saw).

QuoteCan anyone enlighten me as to what is wrong with hobbits jumping on a bed :unsure:

It was unnecessary, long, and rather painfully filmed.  The film would have been better if they had never filmed it, or if they ignored the fact that they had filmed it.
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Ed Anger

#58
July 31, 2012, 07:03:04 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 30, 2012, 08:46:55 PM
Quote from: dps on July 30, 2012, 07:43:28 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 30, 2012, 05:04:02 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on July 30, 2012, 05:02:50 PM
King Kong is the greatest movie EVER. Fact.

Fuck Charles Grodin, man.  Fag.

To be fair, he may not have meant that version.  Perhaps you should be telling him to fuck Robert Armstrong or Jack Black instead.

He knows what he did.  He left an opening.

:yes:

I made a Tim joke, Seedy slipped Grodin in.
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Faeelin

#59
July 31, 2012, 07:42:46 AM
Incidentally, did anyone find the movie's version of the Misty Mountain song to be wrong? I pictured it as a fast-paced tune the dwarves sang while putting away dishes, not some funeral dirge.
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