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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5761327" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>That's the general impression I have. He made movies that were successful with people who don't like the books. And, you can hardly from a business perspective argue with the success. After all, when Tolkien thought to adapt the books to the big screen, his first inclination was to remove all the boring and unimportant <em>fight scenes</em> from the story so as to better concentrate on the important parts.</p><p></p><p>I doubt that would have gone over that well with a mass audience.</p><p></p><p>Nonetheless, it generally sucks from the perspective of a fan of the books who would like for them to have a big screen counterpart in much the same way that the David Lynch 'Dune' sucks if you are or were a prior fan of the book. Both are 'B' rate scripts with big budgets filled with wierd departures and digressions from the book. Neither does the book they are loosely derived from much justice as a work of literature, nor for that matter is the LotR movie particularly well made beyond the excellent art direction provided by Howe and Lee. There are times, if you turn the sound off, that the movie is like a dream come true, and the very vision of what I always saw in my mind's eye. The first fifteen minutes or so of the first movie is delightful. </p><p></p><p>But it all just goes wrong. I expect much the same thing of the Hobbit movie. Some scenes may well delight me, but the whole is likely to be terribly disappointing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 5761327, member: 4937"] That's the general impression I have. He made movies that were successful with people who don't like the books. And, you can hardly from a business perspective argue with the success. After all, when Tolkien thought to adapt the books to the big screen, his first inclination was to remove all the boring and unimportant [i]fight scenes[/i] from the story so as to better concentrate on the important parts. I doubt that would have gone over that well with a mass audience. Nonetheless, it generally sucks from the perspective of a fan of the books who would like for them to have a big screen counterpart in much the same way that the David Lynch 'Dune' sucks if you are or were a prior fan of the book. Both are 'B' rate scripts with big budgets filled with wierd departures and digressions from the book. Neither does the book they are loosely derived from much justice as a work of literature, nor for that matter is the LotR movie particularly well made beyond the excellent art direction provided by Howe and Lee. There are times, if you turn the sound off, that the movie is like a dream come true, and the very vision of what I always saw in my mind's eye. The first fifteen minutes or so of the first movie is delightful. But it all just goes wrong. I expect much the same thing of the Hobbit movie. Some scenes may well delight me, but the whole is likely to be terribly disappointing. [/QUOTE]
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