Three Lounges Outside Ebbing, Missouri

[Perfect Cell]

Norm McDonald is a national treasure!

A Canadian national treasure, you mean.

 

[Roose Bolton]

The metaphors can continue, great value-added lol, but do you expect the above to be true re budgets for Witcher and Amazon LotR? My life really needs proper sword and sorcery fantasy projects to make it to the top levels of media entertainment with the highest production standards possible.

The head of Amazon told his people that they needed their own Game of Thrones and spent something like $250 million in just buying the rights to use the Tolkien material, plus, Amazon is ungodly rich, richer than some film studios, so I don't think they'll skimp on the budget. Witcher may not go as crazy with its budget, but Netflix has spent a lot of money on its past projects so I expect it'll be high end tv.

 

[Perfect Cell]

Amazon spent all that money just to build a grocery store that doesn't have checkout lanes. They are out of their minds, and drunk with wealth. So, that's probably a good sign for Lord of the Rings.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Oddly enough... I've never been a Tolkien guy. I admire the Jackson films but I can't say I really love them. Great spectacle, lots of actors I love are in the cast but in the end they leave me a bit cold. Could be my lack of connection to the source material.

 

[squeekness]

Oddly enough... I've never been a Tolkien guy. I admire the Jackson films but I can't say I really love them. Great spectacle, lots of actors I love are in the cast but in the end they leave me a bit cold. Could be my lack of connection to the source material.

I found the Hobbit movies slow because they were overpacked with stuff that was never in the book.

 

[Roose Bolton]

The Hobbit films are to the Lord of the Rings films what the Prequel Trilogy is to the Original Trilogy. Though I find that they're not without charm.

Amazon spent all that money just to build a grocery store that doesn't have checkout lanes. They are out of their minds, and drunk with wealth. So, that's probably a good sign for Lord of the Rings.

I just want them to invent a portal that can take me to the third dimension behind the Simpson's bookshelf. I want to see those cubes the size of gorillas.

 

[Iceman]

The head of Amazon told his people that they needed their own Game of Thrones and spent something like $250 million in just buying the rights to use the Tolkien material, plus, Amazon is ungodly rich, richer than some film studios, so I don't think they'll skimp on the budget. Witcher may not go as crazy with its budget, but Netflix has spent a lot of money on its past projects so I expect it'll be high end tv.

Oh yeah Amazon's market cap might even be bigger than all the studios combined. I was more curious about exactly how committed they were to it so that would be great. Top film level production standards on a LotR TV show could be the best thing ever! Witcher probably wouldn't need as much as LotR but I really hope both of these projects are a huge success and it leads to more big fantasy projects of this type.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Yeah, I think tv's probably the better format for adaptations of fantasy novels so it's a trend I hope that continues.

 

[jokesonm3]

Seeing the Ant-man & the Wasp trailer reminded me of how much i really enjoyed the Ant-man film and Paul Rudd in general.

Gonna go watch it again.

[YT]8_rTIAOohas[/YT]

 

[flickchick85]

Oddly enough... I've never been a Tolkien guy. I admire the Jackson films but I can't say I really love them. Great spectacle, lots of actors I love are in the cast but in the end they leave me a bit cold. Could be my lack of connection to the source material.

Ditto. I tried to read the source material too back when the movies were coming out, but I honestly didn't even make it halfway through the first book before giving up. It was so, SO dull to me. I saw each of the films a couple times in theaters, bought and watched the extended editions once, and then...that was it. I'd had my fill of LotR, pretty much for life, lol. I saw each of the Hobbit movies once in theaters but those I didn't even enjoy. I'm not sure why I bothered. I guess I'm something of a completist when it comes to movie and TV series - if I start one I have to see it through. Although, I'm finding it much easier to drop TV series now than I used to, probably because there are so many great options out there now I could be watching instead.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Guess Amazon's lost two potential customers

 

[flickchick85]

Not as long as they keep giving me free two-day shipping!

 

[Black Narcissus]

Ditto. I tried to read the source material too back when the movies were coming out, but I honestly didn't even make it halfway through the first book before giving up. It was so, SO dull to me. I saw each of the films a couple times in theaters, bought and watched the extended editions once, and then...that was it. I'd had my fill of LotR, pretty much for life, lol. I saw each of the Hobbit movies once in theaters but those I didn't even enjoy. I'm not sure why I bothered. I guess I'm something of a completist when it comes to movie and TV series - if I start one I have to see it through. Although, I'm finding it much easier to drop TV series now than I used to, probably because there are so many great options out there now I could be watching instead.

The fat bearded bastah of the north>Tolkien.

 

[Roose Bolton]

If only he'd ****ing write.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Oddly enough... I've never been a Tolkien guy. I admire the Jackson films but I can't say I really love them. Great spectacle, lots of actors I love are in the cast but in the end they leave me a bit cold. Could be my lack of connection to the source material.

Enjoyment of Tolkien's world and work comes in levels depending on how much you dig in. The films are just a fun, epic fantasy story. The books, as always, are lot more epic and in depth. If you read the Silmarillion (the first age of Tolkien's world) you really get the grander scope of Tolkien's imagination and how the Lord of the Rings is really just the culmination of a massive epic. Sauron isn't even the main bad guy of Tolkien's grander world. And that's not even counting the Histories of Middle Earth and other such books.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Ditto. I tried to read the source material too back when the movies were coming out, but I honestly didn't even make it halfway through the first book before giving up. It was so, SO dull to me. I saw each of the films a couple times in theaters, bought and watched the extended editions once, and then...that was it. I'd had my fill of LotR, pretty much for life, lol. I saw each of the Hobbit movies once in theaters but those I didn't even enjoy. I'm not sure why I bothered. I guess I'm something of a completist when it comes to movie and TV series - if I start one I have to see it through. Although, I'm finding it much easier to drop TV series now than I used to, probably because there are so many great options out there now I could be watching instead.

The Hobbit movies were such a disappointment. And yeah, the source material can be hard to get into, but so rewarding if you manage it. Tolkien's imagination and world building is astonishing. As always, the films can't do it justice. I'm hoping the show starts at the Silmarillion and builds toward the Lord of the Rings and retells it closer to how the source material depicts it. If they can manage to capture even a smidgen of Tolkien's grander vision, it'd make Game of Thrones look like Pee Wee's Playhouse.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I make great life choices. Case in point: I'm currently eating a half gallon of Blue Bell Banana Pudding ice cream.

 

[Guts]

If Sandman ever gets adapted it should be as a tv show. The guy that New Line hired to write the movie dropped out because he realized that the comic should be done on TV instead of a movie.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

If Sandman ever gets adapted it should be as a tv show. The guy that New Line hired to write the movie dropped out because he realized that the comic should be done on TV instead of a movie.

This. No way you can do justice to that character and world in a film's run time.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Ditto. I tried to read the source material too back when the movies were coming out, but I honestly didn't even make it halfway through the first book before giving up. It was so, SO dull to me. I saw each of the films a couple times in theaters, bought and watched the extended editions once, and then...that was it. I'd had my fill of LotR, pretty much for life, lol. I saw each of the Hobbit movies once in theaters but those I didn't even enjoy. I'm not sure why I bothered. I guess I'm something of a completist when it comes to movie and TV series - if I start one I have to see it through. Although, I'm finding it much easier to drop TV series now than I used to, probably because there are so many great options out there now I could be watching instead.

Btw I literally just finished the Museum ep of Black Mirror season four. Damn this is a good show. Bleak as hell but so good.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Enjoyment of Tolkien's world and work comes in levels depending on how much you dig in. The films are just a fun, epic fantasy story. The books, as always, are lot more epic and in depth. If you read the Silmarillion (the first age of Tolkien's world) you really get the grander scope of Tolkien's imagination and how the Lord of the Rings is really just the culmination of a massive epic. Sauron isn't even the main bad guy of Tolkien's grander world. And that's not even counting the Histories of Middle Earth and other such books.

I read it cover to cover, man. A bloody chore to get through. No thanks, Jeff.

 

[flickchick85]

The Hobbit movies were such a disappointment. And yeah, the source material can be hard to get into, but so rewarding if you manage it. Tolkien's imagination and world building is astonishing. As always, the films can't do it justice. I'm hoping the show starts at the Silmarillion and builds toward the Lord of the Rings and retells it closer to how the source material depicts it. If they can manage to capture even a smidgen of Tolkien's grander vision, it'd make Game of Thrones look like Pee Wee's Playhouse.

I am definitely going to check out the show, because I'm a sucker for pretty much any fantasy TV if it's remotely well-done. And yes, even being bored by the book, I could see how rich Tolkien's vision was. I think it was largely his writing style that turned me off.

Btw I literally just finished the Museum ep of Black Mirror season four. Damn this is a good show. Bleak as hell but so good.

I really liked S4. And hey, it had two whole episodes with happy endings, so "bleak" who?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

"Listen Legoland... I don't live in the kingdom of Jondor."

 

[Enriquespy]

new thread incoming!!!

 

[Perfect Cell]

Groundhog Lounge, for the love of decency.