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Ancanar Teaser Trailer Available
Still Gainfully Unemployed writes "A teaser trailer for Ancanar, an indie Tolkien inspired fantasy film, has been released. Check it out. It's not a Tolkien story, but rather inspired by his works."
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Do you mean based on as in the way The Two Towers is based on Tolkien, or is it more accurate than that?
It's not a Tolkien story, but rather inspired by his works.
Doesn't that describe the vast majority of fantasy novels ?
The LotR series is so popular, I'm sure we will see many LotR-inspired films in the next few years.
Hopefully this round will be better then "Conan" & "Heavy Metal" clones like "Beastmaster", "Red Sonja", etc. from the 70's and 80's
This looks like a lower budget movie, which should be entertaining.
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Here. I hate to look at movies within a web browser, is there actually a QuickTime plug-in for Mozilla?
mp3: l33t term for empty.
no, it was TORNed like a week ago. slashdot is pretty late on this news.....
And the vast majority of it sucks.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
And why won't it play in my MPlayer rc1?
Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available (enable it at compilation!)
Wtf is that faad?
Since I can't see the trailer, I have to make it up.
... thereby leaving the world unprotected from the resurrected band of singing barbers.
In this one, Dorfo and Samdumb go frolicking west across Amerrycah in their K-Y delivery van, lubing their way from adventure to adventure in their quest to destroy the Wrinngius Unus which was stolen from the Great Lord Mauron after a battle in which Mauron was defeated by a band of singing barbers. The movie climaxes when, at a Mauron's resort in Misted Mountains of Kallorahdoe, Samdumb gets his tongue stuck to a conveniently-placed ski-lift, and in order to unstick him, Dorfo engages in rough butt love to heat him up.
The passionate Nhobbit Love opens up a HUGE CRACK in the earth, into which an alert but orgasmic Dorfo tosses the Wringius Unus, thereby destroying it and Mauron...
Celine Dion writes the title song, My Hardon Will Go On.
first of all, no. All the stuff you mentioned goes back a couple thousand years. The main thing inspired by tolkein is the setting - middle earth. It will probably not contradict tolkein (in many ways), but it will not be from the professor himself. So it's in middle earth - so it's inspired by tolkein.
I never got around to seeing the Two Towers, but I did see FOTR on DVD. Does anyone remember the LOTR cartoon? I think I'm permanently scarred for life after seeing it. :)
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The search begins?? for what, better actors and a plot? Sheesh, this is one of these storys that got rejected from Xena isnt it? seriously, it looks horrible, but it has elves and swords, so what the hell, I'll go see it...
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345 314255/103-9283348-9273448?vi=glance
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Sword of Shannara.
It's about a humble farmer dude who is told to leave his home by a great and powerful old wizard so that he can fulfill his destiny of destroying an evil phantom-like wizard, something which can only be done with the help of a magical artifact (this case it's a sword, not a ring).
Other intersting points in the story:
the king of one group of people is having his judgement clouded by a wicked chancellor who is actually working for the evil one. This is undone by the heroes, and the king helps defend against the onslaught of the army of evil orcs.
That army of orcs almost breaks through the inner part of the castle by going through the only available opening: the sewers. They know about this because the chancellor escaped and told them.
The epic battle to seize the castle encompasses four waves - three inner battlements are conquered, and a fourth when the orcs are defeated by a reenforcement force
Sound familiar? 'Cause I had to keep checking the title to make sure I wasn't reading Two Towers.
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Oh, come on; "indie film" and "teaser trailer" are not two terms that should appear together on the Slashdot mainpage. Can anyone say "slashdotted"? Early fantasy books (ie inspired by Tolkien) actually labeled themselves as "Tolkienesque" works.
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is a collection of short stories, all inspired by Tolkien and written to honor him. Some major fantasy/SF authors participated. One of the stories even has Bilbo make an uncredited cameo. I highly recommend it.
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Actually, I discovered recently that the "snowboarding" thing isn't necessarily as "anachronistic" as we might have thought.
As a friend pointed out, Petrarch wrote about germanic tribes surfing/sledding on their shields (naked!) down snowy embankments into battle -- that was 2000 years ago. So shield-surfing is a pretty old idea.
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I'm not an expert, but I vaguely remember reading that when Tolkien sold the film rights to LotR, he specifically prohibited any 'based on'-type works (thus thankfully preventing a Middle-Earth sitcom). Even if this is not the case, aren't there legal issues involved in using, at the very least, Tolkien's geography? It was always my understanding that one needed some sort of contractual right in order to do, say, a Dune prequel or Star Wars novel.
Irrespective of the legal issues, I don't think that a film like this does Tolkien much service or is particularly respectful of his wishes. Unlike, say, the Star Wars universe, Middle-Earth was very much the product of one man, and it was for him a very personal way of expressing some of his most deeply-felt beliefs. Considering that the vast majority of the Tolkien canon remains yet unfilmed (I would kill for a Beren and Luthien movie), the only real reason I can fathom for making a movie like this is to exploit the depth of Tolkien's universe without having to include its messages.
That being said, I may see this movie, and, if it is true to Tolkien's beliefs and tone, I may see it fit to like it. That, however, is unlikely; while I liked Jackson's FotR quite alot, I felt his TTT was unfaithful not only to the plot of Tolkien's work (which I can forgive), but to the messages as well. I don't want to sound like a snobby purist when I say that; it's just that all the talking (particularly by Faramir, Gandalf, and Treebeard) was the interesting part of TTT for me, not the fighting. I understand that many may feel differently.
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Enjoy. I'm not so sure it's going to be a hit or a cult classic but, maybe worth an hour and a half or so. I've wasted plenty of my time watching other trash.
Disney's Pinocchio 2.0 (2002) starring Roberto Benigni is much more faithful to the novel than Disney's Pinocchio 1.0 (1940) was, but it got bad reviews and AFAIK didn't do that well at the box office. Fidelity to a classic literary work doesn't guarantee ticket sales; the movie must be adapted to the cultures that exist 95 years later. It's possible to pull this off, but it's also possible to screw it up to hell as in The Time Machine (2002).
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They might try, but parody is completely legal. Or haven't you heard of Bored of the Rings? The first paragraph pretty well sums up the tone of the whole book: Who can forget the song of Tim Benzedrine? Hilarious stuff - unless, of course, you think of Tolkien as God, and regard any mocking of his work as sacrilege.
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Oh wait, this is Slashdot, nevermind. That's like asking the editors to check for dupes! :)
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Looks a lot more like they were taken with the movie adaptation of LOTR than the source material itself. A lot of things are "Tolkien inspired," but I think its more fair to call this LOTR movie inspired. The bits of CGI, the trailer, etc all scream, "We really liked Fellowship, lets make our own" instead of ,"Lets make a good Tolkien flick."
Afterall, if it didn't try to emulate the "look and feel" of LOTR it would just be another fantasy movie and probably never be posted on slashdot.
As a Christian (don't really like binding myself to a specific religion) and a Sporadic church goer (at least once a month more than just C&E)
Church isnt really a bad thing, but it is wherever any gather in his name..sorry, off on a tagent...back to the topic, dogma.
I think it's a great satire piece on religion (especially Catholicism)and is something funny. As far as Catholicism goes, I think the movie really shows the fallacies of not only that religion, but pretty much organized religion in general. Now, I'm not saying organized religion is a bad thing, as it does bring people together for a common good (for the most part) but it is subject to being something percieved by humans from a literary work that was written from a human standpoint. As anything else, it's open to interpretation, and yes, a lot of things in the bible can be bent in many many ways - My favorite being that God gave man all plants bearing seed (save the apple), for which they could use.
Ok, I'm way off topic now....
so go ahead and laugh..it's ok, honest! im sure God isn't going to smite you due to your finding humor in something just because it's a spoof on something sacred.
PS: I'm not trolling I swear...I guess the combination of my tendancy
It's really unfortunate that an indie movie with such nice-looking production has such a crap-ass story. Apparently a guy is pissed off that the elves are immortal and he wants to go find them and burn their city down. Epic emotion that.
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case in point - that ancanar movie linked above. looks like a high school production.
what sucks about that is, when it fails, studios etc think it failed because it's fantasy, not because *it sucked*.
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"...whilst you are granted life eternal!!"
And why do independent films always have ugly actors with weenie voices>
I think the point of the poster was that a story contrary to the tone and message of Tolkien, and clearly exploitative of him, would be shot down.
And my point was that Bored of the Rings is clearly quite contrary to Tolkien's message, and clearly exploitative - and yet, Tolkien's lawyers don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of shooting it down, because parody is completely legal.
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Try this one instead.