When I read the first two HP books, I was totally bummed out by how they had missed the whole awe factor in magic, unlike the Earthsea books. In Harry Potter, magic is basicly the same as James Bond gadgets; cool but meaningless.
In the Earthsea books, Le Guin really captures the wonder of magic and the danger it's use carries. Another set of books that really explore the whole consequences of power is Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy. Would like to see a big screen version of those books.
I hope this production doesn't miss out on that as well.
I'm a Mac tech and just recommended to a friend to get a PC laptop. Why? He needs Auto-CAD. I've gone round and round with Virtual PC/Auto-CAD and various Mac CAD programs and nothing works quite right. Regardless of what I, or my friend, like, you have to go with the right tool for the job. Yeah, maybe in a few years, Auto-CAD will come out with a Mac version but I won't hold my breath on that.
Looks like the same goes for DVD production. If you are planning on making money via DVD production, you have to get the right tool for the job. Holding out for something that'll run on your current rig doesn't always work.
People want to interact with stuff. 'Course they're going to go with vid games.
If tv is so worried, why don't they work on interactive tv where people can at least "choose your own adventure" for some of their shows. Soaps would be easy to do. Same for formula SF (Star Treck, Star Gate, Star Search, etc.).
I just went a found a girl who was a sys-admin and had a similar interest in history. Things took care of themselves after that. Now that I have a family, I really don't have to go out and interact with people, except at work. Cool!
Until your knees blow out. I'll be lucky to be walking by the time I'm 50. Yeah, with enough money stuff can be done. With enough money, that is.
Martial arts are cool, as long as you find a good teacher that's able to work with you as an individual and is not there just to make some cash and look good to the newbies.
Get him out to an SCA event and get him drunk. Extra points if you can get him in armor and let him wail on some folks. Then get him laid by an SCA chick with big boobs. Yeah, he'll still be a geek but he'll feel good and, at the same time, be slightly sickened by it all. Will make his classroom peers seem a much better choice.
This sets Sauron up as more ambigous. You don't really know if he's a bad guy or not.
With Aragorn swinging first, he's just a guy defending himself. Instant sympathy from the audience.
I just didn't like the part where Arwin's riding past all the Nozedruels and all their swords had been replaced with carrier pigeons. Totally ruined the sense of danger and thrill.
I've already started installing a home theater setup into my bathroom. After that, I just have to install a mini-fridge with a keg setup for my home brew and I'll be set. Suppose I'll have to send wife+kid out for the weekend.
I think Jackson's done a great job of making Tolkien's work accessible to non-Tolkien geeks. My example would be my Dad. He's your typical 60 something aging jock who's never ready anything more profound than Bill Cosby's book on fatherhood (doubt he even finished it). He went to the first movie because (so he tells me) he figured it was a chance to try and see just what it was about these books (all fantasy and sf) that had obsessed me as a kid (and 'stolen' my interest from sports and such). He went to the next two movies because he was hooked and wanted to see how they ended. Ture, he mostly talked about the battle scenes and such, with me, but Jackson was able to hold his attention across three years. If he can do that, I have no worries about Jackson making The Hobbit a snore fest.
As to The Hobbit being slower than LotR, it can seem that way reading it but if you're doing a retelling, it can move pretty fast. I have a three year old who loves fairy tales but isn't going to sit still for a reading of The Hobbit. What I give her is high points and can tell the story in three nights. She does stop the story from time to time to ask questions and I just give her a little more of the story details at those times. As she gets older and able to follow the narritive better, I'll be giving her more of the actual text.
The only danger I see with Jackson making The Hobbit, is that he could miss out and lose the special feel of the story and, instead, turn it into Force 10 from Hobbitation. That would suck cow patties.
Um...Sauron? So just what would an attack by the White Council (Gandalf, Saruman, Galadriel, Elrond, Radagast the Brown, who else?) look like? Would they even be there physically? Gandalf just says that the Necromancer (Sauron) was driven out of Dul Gulder. Could be interesting.
That's how I've described The Silmarillion to folks; it's Tolkien's Bible to his world. If you try to read it as anything other than a collection of historical tales that have been collected many generations later than the action, you'll be in for a hard slog. I guess if one was really into wearing pointed ears and such, you could figure out a weekly reading schedule and work your way through it each year, discussing it's relevance to modern life and all. I don't think I know anyone who might consider doing this but i better check, just to be safe.
Other than a dragon attacking a whole city and a battle between elves, dwarves, goblins, men, and eagles. And the giant spiders. Can't forget the giant spiders. Oh yeah, there's also trolls. And more goblins. And a giant man/bear. But other than that, it's pretty dull.
If Jackson does cut the end from the Hobbit, would the title then be The Hobbit, or There and... ?
I'm jealous. After two semesters of biblical Hebrew, I was planning on biblical Greek and then classical Greek. Ended up leaving university and haven't been back. Now, I may have to wait until my kids are grown and gone before I can put the time in.
The one movie called Troy hasn't been released yet. It's set to show in the states this May.
They are about the war in Troy but but are just a loose adaption of the plot of the Illiad. Don't know how one would go about adapting the poem itself to the screen. Which translation would you use? I prefer Fitzgerald's translation
These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special!
Do you mean a revolver firing.45 Colt or a Colt Model 1911 semi-auto pistol firing.45 ACP? And what about.38 super? I have a 1911 that's chambered in.38 Super. Would that confuse those fascist liberals?
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When I read the first two HP books, I was totally bummed out by how they had missed the whole awe factor in magic, unlike the Earthsea books. In Harry Potter, magic is basicly the same as James Bond gadgets; cool but meaningless.
In the Earthsea books, Le Guin really captures the wonder of magic and the danger it's use carries. Another set of books that really explore the whole consequences of power is Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy. Would like to see a big screen version of those books.
I hope this production doesn't miss out on that as well.
I like the evil Dr. Sunshine Lollipops. Talk about filling one with terror at the mention of his name!
I'm a Mac tech and just recommended to a friend to get a PC laptop. Why? He needs Auto-CAD. I've gone round and round with Virtual PC/Auto-CAD and various Mac CAD programs and nothing works quite right. Regardless of what I, or my friend, like, you have to go with the right tool for the job. Yeah, maybe in a few years, Auto-CAD will come out with a Mac version but I won't hold my breath on that.
Looks like the same goes for DVD production. If you are planning on making money via DVD production, you have to get the right tool for the job. Holding out for something that'll run on your current rig doesn't always work.
Summer, 1993 in Italy, gas was around $4-$4.5/gal. No one batted an eye.
People want to interact with stuff. 'Course they're going to go with vid games.
If tv is so worried, why don't they work on interactive tv where people can at least "choose your own adventure" for some of their shows. Soaps would be easy to do. Same for formula SF (Star Treck, Star Gate, Star Search, etc.).
I just went a found a girl who was a sys-admin and had a similar interest in history. Things took care of themselves after that. Now that I have a family, I really don't have to go out and interact with people, except at work. Cool!
Fritto.
Until your knees blow out. I'll be lucky to be walking by the time I'm 50. Yeah, with enough money stuff can be done. With enough money, that is.
Martial arts are cool, as long as you find a good teacher that's able to work with you as an individual and is not there just to make some cash and look good to the newbies.
Get him out to an SCA event and get him drunk. Extra points if you can get him in armor and let him wail on some folks. Then get him laid by an SCA chick with big boobs. Yeah, he'll still be a geek but he'll feel good and, at the same time, be slightly sickened by it all. Will make his classroom peers seem a much better choice.
Sauron swings first...
This sets Sauron up as more ambigous. You don't really know if he's a bad guy or not.
With Aragorn swinging first, he's just a guy defending himself. Instant sympathy from the audience.
I just didn't like the part where Arwin's riding past all the Nozedruels and all their swords had been replaced with carrier pigeons. Totally ruined the sense of danger and thrill.
I've already started installing a home theater setup into my bathroom. After that, I just have to install a mini-fridge with a keg setup for my home brew and I'll be set. Suppose I'll have to send wife+kid out for the weekend.
I've masturbated to LOTR.
And the world and I applaud (golf clap) your fervent demonstration of enthusiasim for the work in discussion.
Hmmm...casting for The Hobbit.
Balin
Dwalin
Fili
Kili
Dori
Nori
Ori
Oin
Gloin-John Ryes Davies (duh)
Bifur
Bofur
Bombur
Thorin Oakenshield-Brian Blessed
And lots of giant spiders. Not just one. That part always gave me the willies as a kid.
I think Jackson's done a great job of making Tolkien's work accessible to non-Tolkien geeks. My example would be my Dad. He's your typical 60 something aging jock who's never ready anything more profound than Bill Cosby's book on fatherhood (doubt he even finished it). He went to the first movie because (so he tells me) he figured it was a chance to try and see just what it was about these books (all fantasy and sf) that had obsessed me as a kid (and 'stolen' my interest from sports and such). He went to the next two movies because he was hooked and wanted to see how they ended. Ture, he mostly talked about the battle scenes and such, with me, but Jackson was able to hold his attention across three years. If he can do that, I have no worries about Jackson making The Hobbit a snore fest.
As to The Hobbit being slower than LotR, it can seem that way reading it but if you're doing a retelling, it can move pretty fast. I have a three year old who loves fairy tales but isn't going to sit still for a reading of The Hobbit. What I give her is high points and can tell the story in three nights. She does stop the story from time to time to ask questions and I just give her a little more of the story details at those times. As she gets older and able to follow the narritive better, I'll be giving her more of the actual text.
The only danger I see with Jackson making The Hobbit, is that he could miss out and lose the special feel of the story and, instead, turn it into Force 10 from Hobbitation. That would suck cow patties.
Don't you mean *hack, wheeze, get a life, hack, wheeze* ?
Um...Sauron? So just what would an attack by the White Council (Gandalf, Saruman, Galadriel, Elrond, Radagast the Brown, who else?) look like? Would they even be there physically? Gandalf just says that the Necromancer (Sauron) was driven out of Dul Gulder. Could be interesting.
That's how I've described The Silmarillion to folks; it's Tolkien's Bible to his world. If you try to read it as anything other than a collection of historical tales that have been collected many generations later than the action, you'll be in for a hard slog. I guess if one was really into wearing pointed ears and such, you could figure out a weekly reading schedule and work your way through it each year, discussing it's relevance to modern life and all. I don't think I know anyone who might consider doing this but i better check, just to be safe.
Other than a dragon attacking a whole city and a battle between elves, dwarves, goblins, men, and eagles. And the giant spiders. Can't forget the giant spiders. Oh yeah, there's also trolls. And more goblins. And a giant man/bear. But other than that, it's pretty dull.
If Jackson does cut the end from the Hobbit, would the title then be The Hobbit, or There and... ?
I'm jealous. After two semesters of biblical Hebrew, I was planning on biblical Greek and then classical Greek. Ended up leaving university and haven't been back. Now, I may have to wait until my kids are grown and gone before I can put the time in.
The one movie called Troy hasn't been released yet. It's set to show in the states this May.
There's this movie and this one too.
They are about the war in Troy but but are just a loose adaption of the plot of the Illiad. Don't know how one would go about adapting the poem itself to the screen. Which translation would you use? I prefer Fitzgerald's translation
Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy would be cool.
I also wouldn't mind seeing Ringworld or Footfall as a film.
Figure once IBM has their strained silicon process down, temperatures will drop. I imagine that's what Apple's waiting for, for their laptops.
I just want a G5 upgrade card for my Cube. That'll be sweeeeeeet!
These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special!
.45 Colt or a Colt Model 1911 semi-auto pistol firing .45 ACP? And what about .38 super? I have a 1911 that's chambered in .38 Super. Would that confuse those fascist liberals?
Do you mean a revolver firing