generalfrevious

SilverWook said:

I don't think the market can support three movies about him that don't form a trilogy. ;)

http://www.slashfilm.com/tolkien-biopics/

 Don't worry; Jackson will produce the least faithful portrayal of the author. He will probably devote four hours to the time he was frightened by a spider. And those other two biopics will never get off the ground.

I wonder if Peter Jackson will do a biopic of JRR Tolkein if he can't get the rights to the other books in the estate? 

Then inside the digestive system

a fifteenth century sea dragon!!!

brush his teeth under water

Meanwhile, on the Canadian border...

went to an Anthonys convention

went off the rails inside

West of sunspots on Betelgeuse 

Stale in the fourteenth generation

a meteorite struck the Earth

on their souls yesterday afternoon

Real or implied by Martians 

followed by California and Florida

is that mustard costs money

TV's Frink said:

If you make that tired joke a third time, you should be immediately banned.

 Sorry about that.

What if in the new movies the stormtroopers are part of the Rebel alliance now? Would that work in any sense?

JJ abrams will just remake the Empire Strikes back, and add more lens flares.

Darth Sidious comes back from the dead and clones Darth Vader so they can fabricate a complicated trade dispute against the new republic. JJ Abrams' only contribution would be lens flares.

Handman said:

unamochilla2 said:

generalfrevious said:

Now I might have said I liked TPM for three years before I realized it sucked; now that I think about it, what I really meant to say was that it took me three years to realize that Padme was Queen Amidala all along. 

Otherwise I believe I was in denial about the badness of Episode I for a while; even when I first saw it I found Anakin to be annoying, Jar Jar Binks to be out of place, and the whole film did not feel like Star Wars. What really disappointed me about the PT was that once Qui-Gon died he was almost never mentioned again. I was hoping he would be the Obi-Wan of the new trilogy and that he would come back as a force ghost in Episodes II & III. The good news is that it took me a lot less time to shake off the next two movies.

I'm surprised Lucas didn't do that considering he was trying to "rhyme" certain PT aspects with OT.

 I don't think Liam Neeson wanted to come back. Otherwise, that would've happened.

 That's interesting because Lucas got Alec Guiness to return as a ghost in Empire and Jedi despite him hating his role as Obi-wan. At least Nesson managed to get out in time.

Now I might have said I liked TPM for three years before I realized it sucked; now that I think about it, what I really meant to say was that it took me three years to realize that Padme was Queen Amidala all along. 

Otherwise I believe I was in denial about the badness of Episode I for a while; even when I first saw it I found Anakin to be annoying, Jar Jar Binks to be out of place, and the whole film did not feel like Star Wars. What really disappointed me about the PT was that once Qui-Gon died he was almost never mentioned again. I was hoping he would be the Obi-Wan of the new trilogy and that he would come back as a force ghost in Episodes II & III. The good news is that it took me a lot less time to shake off the next two movies.

Umm...did I misspell JRR Tolkien's name or something?

Otherwise I don't think Peter Jackson ever read the Hobbit in the first place.

Ryan McAvoy said:

generalfrevious said:

 ...designed to piss off all Tolkein fans.

Who is "Tolkein"? and who are these "Tolkein fans" of which you speak?

 Fans of the works of JRR Tolkein; I'm betting Peter Jackson never actually read more than a few pages of any of his books. Maybe there was some bully growing up who was into Middle-Earth too much.

SilverWook said:

Well, it's not like there aren't other adaptations out there. ;)

http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/9-wonderfully-bizarre-hobbit-adaptations-including-one-from-soviet-russia.php

 All of them are probably a hundred times more faithful than Jackson's cash-grab sodomy, designed to piss off all Tolkein fans. No one can like the book and the movies at the same time.

emanswfan said:

Peter Jackson, WTH?!     Interview

Peter Jackson said:

I don't really like the Hollywood blockbuster bandwagon that exists right now. The industry and the advent of all the technology, has kind of lost its way. It's become very franchise driven and superhero driven.

Umm, did he seriously just say that?!

MF: Now that the entire franchise is done, are there any characters from "The Hobbit" that you're sad you can't move into "Lord of the Rings"?

PB: You're the person to ask that!

PJ: You mean retrospectively?

PB: Tauriel.

PJ: Tauriel.

PB: I actually think the young girls are going to start watching this 1, 2, 3 and they're going to start wondering where she is.

PJ: We're really three or four years away from eight and nine year-olds discovering these movies and watching them in this order and will be wondering why she doesn't show up in "Lord of the Rings." Maybe we'll get Evangeline down to New Zealand, shoot a bunch of stuff, chop it up and put it into a box set.

I'm certain they are joking, but disturbing if they aren't.

 Peter Jackson is turning into Saruman!

There's almost no Bilbo in the Hobbit itself. They were the only three dimensional characters in the books; and Jackson decided to focus on the less interesting characters, even making up characters on the spot. I read that Freeman only has 25 lines in the entire movie! Why did Jackson even make these movies in the first place?!? It's like an atheist adapted the Bible to film and removed all references to God.