Lucy Lawless as Goldmoon in animated DL

[mhacdebhandia]

Are you telling me I have to choose the lesser of two evils, because there is no ideal third option that Narnia

You have to stop right there, because there was nothing "ideal" about The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe as a live-action film.

If that's the best they can do, roll on the animated version - and I don't even like animated films, as a rule.

No, especially not Pixar flicks.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

But the writing is harder than Tolkien!

Huh. I like the King James Bible's language a lot more than Tolkien's.

 

[Nightfall]

Mh,

Well maybe but some of the wording in the KJ Bible version is a little...off from the original texts.

I do agree the film wasn't anything to write home about, but it was hardly a miss as that whole Earthsea mini-series was. Or King Arthur.

Klaus,

It depends on which books you read.

 

[Ranger REG]

What I'm telling you Ranger is that fact is Hollywood doesn't shove money under a movie unless they're reasonable sure it will do well.

Dude, reason and Hollywood almost always never mix. If it did, we wouldn't have The Incredible Hulk and Daredevil made.

Just so you know, United Artists didn't want to foot the bills toward LOTR production but allowed PJ to shop for another company to invest. For UA, it was safe for them if the film had failed, but for New Line they would have lost big. New Line gambled, against all reasons.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

You deserve the pie in face award Gal.

YAY!!!!

*Takes pie to face*

 

[JRRNeiklot]

Quoted for truth.

I agree wholeheartedly. LotR THE MOVIE sucked arse.

 

[Ranger REG]

I agree wholeheartedly. LotR THE MOVIE sucked arse.

Meh. You cannot please EVERYONE. Not even 'dem dang snobbish up-nosed Tolkien Purists who adhere to the belief that LOTR is quite simply unfilmable.

*smirks*

Certainly I'm not pleased with the D&D sequel even though there are those that would disagree with me.

Sighs.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Meh. You cannot please EVERYONE. Not even 'dem dang snobbish up-nosed Tolkien Purists who adhere to the belief that LOTR is quite simply unfilmable.

Well, hey. It's unreadable, so . . .

Well maybe but some of the wording in the KJ Bible version is a little...off from the original texts.

Like Yojimbo is a bad movie because the Japanese setting is "a little off" from the town of Personville in Red Harvest?

Since I'm not a Christian, the accuracy of the King James Bible only bothers me as it affects its usefulness for academic inquiry - and it's plenty useful for finding out what Jacobian-era people believed!

As a text per se, though, it's quite beautiful in places.

 

[warlord]

Atleast everyone in DL doesn't randomly burst into song. That book seemed like a really bad musical at times.

 

[Hellefire]

Raistlin

http://www.dragonlance-movie.com/
http://www.dragonlance-movie.com/news/show_news.asp?id=1

This website has apparently been asked by the producers as the offical announcement site
Keifer Sutherland will be doing Raistlin
Release date autumn, 2007.

Hm, Keifer. He has a pretty good gravelly voice, but I always thought of Raistlin as speaking very very lightly, almost at a whisper. We shall see.

Aaron