Snufkin
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This will be interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49737115
Not sure about this...
Yes the budget is huge, but then so was the budget for the recent LOTR movies and they weren't a patch on the original trilogy.
Still, I live in hope.
max.
i imagine you must have been about 12 when the original trilogy came out. i think if you watch it again, you'll see how awful it is.
Maybe this is Max’s way of saying the books were better.
Joe
What original trilogy? There was an amazing BBC Radio adaptation (still unmatched) and a very odd animated part adaptation. Nothing before Peter Jackson's film(s) that I am aware of.
30.max.
i imagine you must have been about 12 when the original trilogy came out. i think if you watch it again, you'll see how awful it is.
I think a lot of people remember their teenage readings of the LOTR books through rose-tinted glasses... yes the books are wonderful for the imaginative scope, but they can be fairly clunky at times, especially the dialogue.
As for Jackson's films -
1 - Wonderful
2 - very good, especially the faith vs hope theme
3 - an episodic gallop through the storyline with a hugely overdriven & over-bearing soundtrack. A bit of a shame after the first two. Has quite a few good moments though.
Amazon Studios, which bought the rights to the television series two years ago, said the new adaptation will explore fresh story lines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Fellowship of the Ring.
Must be about time to reread the books, I have read them several times since reading LOTR while I was in second year at Heriot-Watt.
Ditto and its available on Cassette or CD.Can I recommend you get the BBC radio dramatisation. It is very faithful to the books and a wonderful listen if you have a (several) long journey(s). I listened to it recently whilst training for a half marathon.
Can I recommend you get the BBC radio dramatisation. It is very faithful to the books and a wonderful listen if you have a (several) long journey(s). I listened to it recently whilst training for a half marathon.
30.
We're all unique individuals, Vuk, so like different things.
Vuk, it doesn't matter if they were aimed at children/teens, I greatly enjoyed watching those movies when they came out, and that's all that matters.but we live in a common culture and can make judgments about the relative value of things. are you really contending that the LOTR films were not primarily aimed at children/teens? can you defend the omni-present muzak that just won't go away? it was ultimately the pan flute kitsch that put me over the edge.