Re: OT - Save the Hobbit pub : Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:26 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

I couldn't possibly dis the last two, because after the first one I promised that I would never suffer such interminable boredom again.

Well said.

I had the misfortune of seeing the first one.

Run away, argue, get attacked by people on horses, run away, argue, get attacked by people on horses, run away, argue, get attacked by people on horses, run away, argue, get attacked by people on horses, run away...

God it was crap.

Re: OT - Save the Hobbit pub : Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:28 pm  

Chris28 wrote:

<fx>crosses Rock God off the invite list for my "LotR -All 3 Extended Versions plus bonus features" party over Easter</fx>

You'll need more than an Easter break for that lot. And some crack, probably.

Re: OT - Save the Hobbit pub : Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:45 pm  

ROBINSON wrote:

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God it was crap.

It was superb. But - I accept - only for LOTR fans. I was hoping it wouldn't be a let-down after the book, and it certainly wasn't. Though the film was better if you had read the book as you could fill in all the stuff they couldn't find time for.

But two things are true. First, LOTR is one of those rare-ish things that there is little middle-earth of opinion about; people either love it, or detest it. I would say the same is exactly true of the books. I loved reading them when a lad and have enjoyed rereading them to my kids. But I have friends who have started the books and abandoned them in short order, with a loud "WTF??". So, you either get it, or you don't. That's fine. As it happens, many millions do get it.

The second thing? Well, how to put this politely? OK. The people who claim to not like LOTR invariably do so in either an insufferably smug, or more often an obnoxiously rude and patronising "I know much better than you what is rubbish" kind of way. It's as if they need to constantly justify to themselves why they don't like it, by going totally OTT with their views of just how terribly, unfeasibly bad it all actually is, if only the gullible and unwashed millions could see it for the total rubbish that they alone know it to be.

You don't like it? Cool. I don't need to know just exactly precisely HOW ridiculously awful it is to your finely honed critical faculties, thanks all the same.

SAVE THE HOBBIT !

[Kosh]

Re: OT - Save the Hobbit pub : Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:32 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

I couldn't possibly dis the last two, because after the first one I promised that I would never suffer such interminable boredom again.

Don't go near the books, then. There's loads of stuff in there they cut that would probably have you catatonic in short order. And definitely avoid even being in close proximity to a copy of The Silmarillion.

Personally I love the books and the movies, but I understand why some people can't stand either.

[Kosh]

Re: OT - Save the Hobbit pub : Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:38 pm  

Mintball wrote:

:lol:

I think they must have spent so much on the CGI that they didn't give any time at all to rehearsals with the humans.

Sean Bean, who is not the finest actor I can think of, manages possibly his most wooden performance ever.

I think that any decent acting comes from the sheer gravitas that McKellen and Lee can give anything, on the basis of longevity and experience and charisma (reminiscent of Alec Guinness in Star Wars) and Bernard Hill, who actually managed to imbue his death scene with enough pathos that I was – finally – actually moved.

The acting isn't great. Then again, the dialogue in the books doesn't really lend itself to character-driven performances.

[Kosh]

Re: OT - Save the Hobbit pub : Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:39 pm  

Chris28 wrote:

<fx>crosses Rock God off the invite list for my "LotR -All 3 Extended Versions plus bonus features" party over Easter</fx>

We've been know to watch those in a day.

Re: OT - Save the Hobbit pub : Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:33 pm  

Mintball wrote:

Sean Bean, who is not the finest actor I can think of, manages possibly his most wooden performance ever.

The woodenness is part of his charm

Re: OT - Save the Hobbit pub : Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:24 pm  

And yet they haven't touched middle-earth tavern in Whitby.

Re: OT - Save the Hobbit pub : Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:27 pm  

Anakin Skywalker wrote:

And yet they haven't touched middle-earth tavern in Whitby.

That's next. Then you, and other people brazenly stealing from the Star Wars franchise

Re: OT - Save the Hobbit pub : Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:28 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

That's next. Then you, and other people brazenly stealing from the Star Wars franchise

Silly isn't it.
Makes you realise just how these fools minds work.