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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1618579" data-attributes="member: 812">I never said I didn't care about how talented somebody is. I said that if I had to CHOOSE between talent and passion, I'd choose passion. I'd rather watch somebody who really CARES about what they're doing make a hash of it than watch somebody do something really well without giving me any sense that they care about it. Best, obviously, is watching people who are really good at something do it with loads of passion.I would say that Jackson has reserves of passion over Solomon. I mean, the amount of effort and faith it took to get LotR made the way he made it blows me away. I can still wish that big parts of it were done differently, and I think on any scale it fails at points, but it's still a magnificent achievement. If I've ever given the sense that I think the D&amp;D movie compares at all to LotR, I apologize. I think the D&amp;D movie is a very typical bad fantasy movie, nearly on a par with, say, The Sword and the Sorcerer, or The Beastmaster. The acting at its worst is worse than either of those films, but the leads in the D&amp;D picture were better, I thought. The story was no stupider and the effects significantly better, and a couple of the fight scenes actually worked.Yeah, it was lame. It was obviously made by people possessing very little experience or talent. I find that endearing. It find it far more appealing than many of the slicker, big-budget pictures that leave me with no sense of the people who made them. I don't think Courtney Solomon's much of a director, but I do feel like I kinda know him, and I think we'd get along just fine.I bet he likes Beastmaster, too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1618579, member: 812"] I never said I didn't care about how talented somebody is. I said that if I had to CHOOSE between talent and passion, I'd choose passion. I'd rather watch somebody who really CARES about what they're doing make a hash of it than watch somebody do something really well without giving me any sense that they care about it. Best, obviously, is watching people who are really good at something do it with loads of passion. I would say that Jackson has reserves of passion over Solomon. I mean, the amount of effort and faith it took to get LotR made the way he made it blows me away. I can still wish that big parts of it were done differently, and I think on any scale it fails at points, but it's still a magnificent achievement. If I've ever given the sense that I think the D&D movie compares at all to LotR, I apologize. I think the D&D movie is a very typical bad fantasy movie, nearly on a par with, say, [i]The Sword and the Sorcerer[/i], or [i]The Beastmaster[/i]. The acting at its worst is worse than either of those films, but the leads in the D&D picture were better, I thought. The story was no stupider and the effects significantly better, and a couple of the fight scenes actually worked. Yeah, it was lame. It was obviously made by people possessing very little experience or talent. I find that endearing. It find it far more appealing than many of the slicker, big-budget pictures that leave me with no sense of the people who made them. I don't think Courtney Solomon's much of a director, but I do feel like I kinda know him, and I think we'd get along just fine. I bet he likes [i]Beastmaster[/i], too. [/QUOTE]

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