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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3458945" data-attributes="member: 4937">Because 100 million readers world wide just have to be wrong... That is a matter of opinion.&nbsp; After, Peter Jackson's klunker of a movie in 'King Kong', its increasingly being floated around Hollywood that maybe Peter Jackson isn't so much a great director as someone that had such good material that it would have been hard to be even the slightest bit faithful to it and manage not to be extraordinarily successful.&nbsp; Again, 100 million readers and all.&nbsp; For one thing, its not at all clear that anything PJ did to the story made it any more accessible, so much visualizing a story and trimming it down ALWAYS makes it more accessible to the wider public.&nbsp; For my money, the real secret to the movies success was neither the questionable script nor the often plodding direction, but Lee and Howe's visuals.Ahhh, yes.&nbsp; The ad hominem attack in place of actual argument.&nbsp; I don't suppose that it ever occurred to you that people who tend to be intense fans of books of any sort, tend to be 'boring nerds'.&nbsp; The argument is therefore circular.&nbsp; People are made nerds by definition of 'liking to read'.&nbsp; It doesn't necessarily follow that this sterotype is valid in any fashion.&nbsp;No, but it is one that increasingly calls into question the taste of those holding the idea.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3458945, member: 4937"] Because 100 million readers world wide just have to be wrong... That is a matter of opinion. After, [i]Peter Jackson's[/i] klunker of a movie in 'King Kong', its increasingly being floated around Hollywood that maybe [i]Peter Jackson[/i] isn't so much a great director as someone that had such good material that it would have been hard to be even the slightest bit faithful to it and manage not to be extraordinarily successful. Again, 100 million readers and all. For one thing, its not at all clear that anything PJ did to the [I]story[/I] made it any more accessible, so much visualizing a story and trimming it down ALWAYS makes it more accessible to the wider public. For my money, the real secret to the movies success was neither the questionable script nor the often plodding direction, but Lee and Howe's visuals. Ahhh, yes. The ad hominem attack in place of actual argument. I don't suppose that it ever occurred to you that people who tend to be intense fans of books of any sort, tend to be 'boring nerds'. The argument is therefore circular. People are made nerds by definition of 'liking to read'. It doesn't necessarily follow that this sterotype is valid in any fashion. No, but it is one that increasingly calls into question the taste of those holding the idea. [/QUOTE]

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