PETER JACKSON: movie fans are fed up!!!

[FaT_tONle]

He was a fairly well known "cult" director with a devoted fanbase before LOTR, but he gained worldwide recognition after he did the LOTR movies

So my question is: what the **** does that have to with anything? Even if he hadn't done LOTR and continued doing what he was doing, he would still be a pretty great director.

Your right. I just hadn't even heard of most of those films before let alone know Jackson directed them, other than Frightners. Guess I don't go back that far. It's a bad job on my part for not recognizing that portion of his early career. Maybe I'll go back and check those films out.

 

[Doctor Jones]

And if you think about it, he adapted LOTR way before all of this remake and reinvention and reboots started happening. He was just simply adapting from great source material that deserved to be put on film.

 

[SoulManX]

and if you think about it, he adapted lotr way before all of this remake and reinvention and reboots started happening. He was just simply adapting from great source material that deserved to be put on film.

 

[terry78]

Point blank, everything that comes out nowadays that isn't a comedy or a Pixar flick is an adaptation or a remake. Or a biopic. We're too used to it. And when something original does come out people are like, "never heard of it, I ain't interested."

 

[Nivek]

Point blank, everything that comes out nowadays that isn't a comedy or a Pixar flick is an adaptation or a remake. Or a biopic. We're too used to it. And when something original does come out people are like, "never heard of it, I ain't interested."

Like Green Lantern, I've heard some downright ignorant comments outside of places like this about that Franchise.

 

[dark_b]

Like Green Lantern, I've heard some downright ignorant comments outside of places like this about that Franchise.

that they didnt hear about GL?

i have been googling a little about GL and i have a feeling that it could be a fantastic movie. and we need in this time more movies with aliens and creatures. everything doesnt have to be realistic.

 

[Kakihara]

The absolute worst of the worst are the goddamn studios who buy the rights to superior foreign films and, instead of simply releasing them, hold their north american distribution until they can make a ****** english language version, which may or may not take place in America. Most of these are remade in a window of less than two or three years and it's getting worse and worse all the time. To this day I've not seen one American remake that improved upon the original film simply because everyone was speaking english or because of the altered locale. Most of them are churned out for a quick buck and lack any of the passion of the original films. If you're reading this please don't support these movies and wait, if nessessary, to see the original.

 

[Alien Anal]

that they didnt hear about GL?

i have been googling a little about GL and i have a feeling that it could be a fantastic movie. and we need in this time more movies with aliens and creatures. everything doesnt have to be realistic.

What about Aliens and weird creatures isnt realistic though?

It comes down to how creative and imaginative the people making the film are and also how well SFX are used...cgi, puppets, prosthetics what ever.

And another thing is..Us comic book fans that are dying for our film to be made doesnt help this situation
Not saying that we shouldnt enjoy or want our comic heros brought to the big screen..but they are the reason why this **** keeps going on.

I think it will all change when the average joe is able to get his hands on quality equipment for cheap

Just look at what happend with music and myspace... Good or bad people were putting their tunes out for everyone to hear..can you imagine what it would be like if that happend with films!..you tube is almost there but not enough

it will happen soon enough

finished

 

[Watson]

I think in some respects he's bang on. But the stuff that is original that has come out has been pretty good.

I think adapting literature to the big screen is a whole different animal then adapting a TV show or even a comic. With those you at least have visuals to rely on. Novels/books convey wide range of emotions just though words, and translating that to the big screen in a way that works takes skill. LOTR is a good example. That Jackson was able to translate it so well to the screen shows his skill as film maker.

But how come no one has mentioned that he remade King Kong ?

 

[terry78]

Yeah, books are a different beast, but the issue also comes up that there are trends in that area as well, like young adult fantasy, which has become almost cliche since the first Harry Potter.