Red Mosquito

McParadigm wrote:I prefer to indulge frequent valleys that make any modest peaks look remarkable by comparison.

and now we're back on topic

I found the first two Hobbit movies to be pretty entertaining. Am I a bad person?

You guys might love it for all I know.
If you're gonna take my word on this, this a first for me on RM.

I'm still very excited for this. The first one had its moments and I generally quite liked the second one--especially once they actually get to the mountain.


These movies are as much exercises in Middle Earth tourism as they ares storytelling, and the storytelling is done in a particularly languid style at that. I actually don't understand why Dime doesn't like them. They aren't always canon, but they devote more time to making middle earth real (and with stunning success) then any fan should have ever dreamed was possible.

stip wrote:I'm still very excited for this. The first one had its moments and I generally quite liked the second one--especially once they actually get to the mountain.


These movies are as much exercises in Middle Earth tourism as they ares storytelling, and the storytelling is done in a particularly languid style at that. I actually don't understand why Dime doesn't like them. They aren't always canon, but they devote more time to making middle earth real (and with stunning success) then any fan should have ever dreamed was possible.

Hey Stip

Agreed... These get way too bad a rap. If they're not true to the books, then there's always the books to read. I like Joe Rogan's bit on people who always say the movies don't do the stories justice.

Yeah, I realized pretty quickly after jumping into Jackson's Middle-earth movies that effective storytelling was definitely not the point. And I wouldn't want it to be.

Yeah, God forbid storytelling be done effectively.

"I'm sure that true cinema-viewers don't come for the story. It's not about telling stories."
-Abbas Kiarostami

LoathedVermin72 wrote:true cinema-viewers

Fuck anybody who uses language like this.

Wait, Kiarostami said that?! Well, never mind then. I take back everything I said. I had no idea Kiarostami said that!

ABNorman wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:true cinema-viewers

Fuck anybody who uses language like this.

Dude! But Kiarostami said it.

durdencommatyler wrote:Yeah, God forbid storytelling be done effectively.

Us idiocrats don't have the patience for all your storytelling... We just want to see fun shit cool effects blow up fight scenes wow!

stip wrote:they devote more time to making middle earth real (and with stunning success)

Stunning success.

durdencommatyler wrote:Wait, Kiarostami said that?! Well, never mind then. I take back everything I said. I had no idea Kiarostami said that!

Ugh. Who said it wasn't the point.

Iholdthepain wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Yeah, God forbid storytelling be done effectively.

Us idiocrats don't have the patience for all your storytelling... We just want to see fun shit cool effects blow up fight scenes wow!

This akin to watching hours of YouTube videos of people hurting themselves accidentally?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Wait, Kiarostami said that?! Well, never mind then. I take back everything I said. I had no idea Kiarostami said that!

Ugh. Who said it wasn't the point.

Oh I know.

RM, where you're going, I don't know if I can follow...

LoathedVermin72 wrote:RM, where you're going, I don't know if I can follow...

I can't carry this thread, BUT I CAN CARRY YOU.

Iholdthepain wrote:I like Joe Rogan's bit on people who always say the movies don't do the stories justice.

Who did he steal it from?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:RM, where you're going, I don't know if I can follow...

Oh please, if you couldn't handle, in fact didn't probably appreciate, differing opinions you'd have checked out a long fucking time ago. You like it here as much as we like having you. So stop being a baby and tell us what movies you're watching today.