Could The Hobbit trilogy be reduced to a single film?
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Nice to know, I'll be avoiding that fanwank like the plague.
Funny how nerds always think they know so much more than professionals.
It's not like professionals are right 100% of the time.
If you think about it, really the only difference between professionals and amateurs, professionals get paid.
All of the stuff he (she?) cut out was PJ fan-wanking, so I hardly see the difference.
As Professor Zoom said, the only difference is that the professional got paid. For all we know, this person could actually be a professional. He/She must have connections in order to have already aquired a copy of BotFA.
Or a reliable torrenting site! (Not I encourage or endorse such activity)
Colour me crazy, but isn't that the same length as two regular length films? OK, 135 mins is slightly more than the norm, but who is going to sit down for FOUR AND A HALF HOURS without a break? I haven't seen this cut, but it does seem to support the original notion that 2 films was the way to go.
Colour me crazy, but isn't that the same length as two regular length films? OK, 135 mins is slightly more than the norm, but who is going to sit down for FOUR AND A HALF HOURS without a break? I haven't seen this cut, but it does seem to support the original notion that 2 films was the way to go.
sometimes I think things are left best the way they are. Yes there were no women and all but the book was written in the 30s. In the 60s all the leads in TOS are men but that has never stop people from enjoying the film.
Jackson tried to hard to modernised it that is became just awkward to watch.
Well, that's easily the most objectively false statement I've read on these boards all month. Accordingly, you will exercise punishment protocol nine alpha.
Well, that's easily the most objectively false statement I've read on these boards all month. Accordingly, you will exercise punishment protocol nine alpha.
No. I won't!
I really need to make a shorter version of that clip that doesn't give people that out. Damn you, Icheb! Damn you!Well, that's easily the most objectively false statement I've read on these boards all month. Accordingly, you will exercise punishment protocol nine alpha.
No. I won't!
Anything was better the the supposedly 'classic' (to some people) 1976 version that couldn't bother to use stop-motion, but a guy in a suit (after a mechanical Kong failed and could only work a little bit.) The padding added a great non-white character and his young white friend that looks up to him, as well as give us characters to care about.
Three hours is too long? And too much time was spend getting to know the most important characters and two minor ones? IMHO, I`d love to see that more in fantasy & sci-fi films that what we get now (imagine if the 2009 Star Trek movie was that long? We would get more about Amanda Grayson that what we got thus making her death even more tragic, and the reason why Nero was trapped for 20 years before retrieving Spock Prime, thus making the movie a bit more understandable.) Too bad people in the film-making and film exhibition industry are greedy.
With regards to The Hobbit trilogy, we have seen the way forward for adapting long works to the screen,and a way for them to not be denuded to fit an arbitrary two hour running time. I`d love to see more like it (perhaps for a movie version of Dune?)
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I would, on a lazy Sunday maybe, but I'm not quite right in the head. I'm one of those lunatics who thinks the SEE versions of LotR are just right.
I would, on a lazy Sunday maybe, but I'm not quite right in the head. I'm one of those lunatics who thinks the SEE versions of LotR are just right.
The people who sat through marathon showings of the LOTR trilogy when it was done by Famous Players (now Cineplex) in Canada would like a word with you three.
Also, the people who watch The Return of the King Extended Edition.The people who sat through marathon showings of the LOTR trilogy when it was done by Famous Players (now Cineplex) in Canada would like a word with you three.I would, on a lazy Sunday maybe, but I'm not quite right in the head. I'm one of those lunatics who thinks the SEE versions of LotR are just right.
I'm the same way, but who says you can't have a break in the middle of this fan edit? There is such thing as a pause button.
I went to Trilogy Tuesday in 2003. Pavlov would have been proud to see all the people who got up to use the restroom at exactly the point where you have to change the discs during the EE's of the first two films.
And for the record, there were breaks between the films. And pizza!