The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Extended Edition) (2001-2003)

[GDHickey]

So kidglov3s, hundreds of people, spread over dozens of companies, convened to make these Hobbit movies costing millions of dollars, and agreed they were not there to make good movies, and just phoned it in? Wow..........

[Lord Method Man]

Originally Posted by phobicsquirrel

wow man, it's a fantasy film that offers awesome action. sorry you didn't like it but it's really fun and probably the only adaption we'll get. is it perfect no but what film is especially fantasy. You have my blessing to go and make your own film...

The Rankin-Bass adaptation is better.

[Arawn]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Jackson didn't learn from the lapses in taste in his Lord of the Rings adaptation.

Well he is known for Bad Taste.

[kidglov3s]

Originally Posted by GDHickey

So kidglov3s, hundreds of people, spread over dozens of companies, convened to make these Hobbit movies costing millions of dollars, and agreed they were not there to make good movies, and just phoned it in? Wow..........

I think to say those movies were phoned in is giving them a bit too much credit. They made money, beyond that yikes.

[solarrdadd]

I wonder how long from now before we get this trilogy and the Hobbit trilogy on UHD with DV/ATMOS; anyone hear anything?

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I was angry walking out of Desolation of Smaug.

+1

They set up this fire breathing menace that can decimate entire cities...to be done in by 5 four foot dwarves doing a Three Stooges routine.

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by levcore

Lol first world problems eh

On a website dedicated to discussing such issues? Yes.

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by 1924

That quote was taken wildly out of context

Not really. He had no time or a plan. It was a mess on set during the production and a mess in the final film. It shows.

[1924]

Originally Posted by Lord Method Man

The Rankin-Bass adaptation is better.

Disagree

[levcore]

Originally Posted by 20th Century Boy

On a website dedicated to discussing such issues? Yes.

glad you agree

[Dragon Ranger]

Originally Posted by 1924

Disagree

The BBC radio adaptation is the best non print version of The Hobbit

[drush9999]

Originally Posted by Dragon Ranger

The BBC radio adaptation is the best non print version of The Hobbit

Except the mispronunciation of various names which annoys my inner Tolkien.

[Dragon Ranger]

Originally Posted by drush9999

Except the mispronunciation of various names which annoys my inner Tolkien.

Good point; I seem to remember the same problem with name pronunciations being rife in the animated LOTR too. Missing the S from Saruman being the one that stuck out most.

[drush9999]

Originally Posted by Dragon Ranger

Good point; I seem to remember the same problem with name pronunciations being rife in the animated LOTR too. Missing the S from Saruman being the one that stuck out most.

The BBC adaptation of LOTR and the Jackson movies are pretty good in this respect.

[grim_tales]

Originally Posted by drush9999

The BBC adaptation of LOTR and the Jackson movies are pretty good in this respect.

I remember listening to some of the BBC version of LOTR - in what is a kind of nice symmetry with the films, Ian Holm played Frodo in the radio version.

[rexcrk]

Originally Posted by kidglov3s

In time I kind of think the world will collectively agree that The Hobbit never happened

See, I think that in time, people will come to realize that the Hobbit movies are just fine.

I think a lot of people don't understand that this wasn't supposed to be a straight-up adaptation of the book. And thank goodness for that.

There are so many points in the book where things are just glossed over. Which is fine for a "children's novel", but in a set of movies that are supposed to tie into LotR, it just wouldn't work.

We're lucky that we've got all this great material that Tolkien wrote about (White Council stuff, Legolas being Thranduil's son, Thranduil being named lol, etc.) that Peter Jackson and Co. were able to incorporate into this "Middle-earth cinematic universe".

They're not perfect movies of course (I hate the chase scene when they're going to Rivendell.. way too long, the "out of the frying pan" scene is also way too long especially after the awesome Goblin Town sequence... I also think there should have been more Beorn carnage in BotFA), but they do a good job of telling the whole story from the book, plus other material that Tolkien wrote. Of course there's a little artistic license involved, but that goes for every movie based on a book ever but that just means we get to spend more time in Lake Town and get to actually care about it when Smaug attacks. And we get a more fleshed out Thranduil character.

[brian9229]

You know, ive been thinking about the lotr ee's lately with all the news from Korea, and Kim Jong Un calling our president a Dotard. Lol, that's exactly what Saruman calls Theoden when he's trapped on top of the tower in the beginning of ROTK. It's always cracked me up, but seeing it in the news lately really made me chuckle.

[darkness2918]

Talking about The Hobbit films again has made me want to watch the extended trilogy again followed by the extended LotR trilogy. I'll probably do that over the weekend.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by rexcrk

See, I think that in time, people will come to realize that the Hobbit movies are just fine.

I think a lot of people don't understand that this wasn't supposed to be a straight-up adaptation of the book. And thank goodness for that.

There are so many points in the book where things are just glossed over. Which is fine for a "children's novel", but in a set of movies that are supposed to tie into LotR, it just wouldn't work.

Oh, sure it could work. It's worked for 80 years. Want a simple way of doing that? Just have Bilbo telling the story to kids, just as he's seen doing in Fellowship of the Ring. Maybe even to a young Frodo. Even Samwise knows the story in Jackson's film. Don't force The Hobbit into being Lord of the Rings. Allow The Hobbit to be The Hobbit.

[imsounoriginal]

Yup, follow up arguably the most epic movie trilogy of all time with a trite little kiddie's fairy tale that takes up one movie. Might as well follow up the Star Wars saga with a one-movie epilogue instead of a new trilogy and infinite spinoffs.