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Toba:

--- Quote from: Sox on 18 Oct 2009, 06:08 ---The more I hear about The Lovely Bones (the book) the more I am convinced I will never ever read it, and the less I want to see this movie. However, Peter Jackson said something about finding the book incredibly overwrought with emotional stimuli and that he wanted to go in completely the opposite direction, turning the movie into a cheap thriller/vengeance movie with tripped out visuals.
...honestly now? You want to take a book like this and turn it into the Count of Monte Cristo meets Poltergeist and acid?
If anybody else was saying these things, I'd be apalled by how ridiculous that sounds, but we're talking about Peter Jackson here, if he makes good on that description, it has to be amazing.

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Wow, I did not know he said that.  Do you have a link to somewhere I can read this in more detail?

He's right that the book is pretty intensely emotionally written at times, and if the movie is completely true to the book nothing new will be there.  I might like a new angle on it like that...

Sox:
He actually loves the book, he just wants to do it differently for a movie. I only ever find things like this out by googling the name of the movie, if that helps.

knives:

--- Quote from: Sox on 18 Oct 2009, 06:08 ---I thought Lord of the Rings was incredible and that no other team of people would have been able to pull it off. Almost every criticism I see about those films is from a casual movie goer, but the Lord of the Rings movies are not for casual movie goers. It's a franchise for huge nerds, that catered to huge nerds, directed by a huge nerd. Yeah, there are flaws. But most of those flaws I hear about are merits if you're a huge nerd and a part of the target audience.

I mean, come on. The entire extended cut is like one twelve hour long movie about elves and hobbits. Does that sound like something intended to appeal to people who are not gigantic nerds?
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First off to prove your first statement false, that no one else could pull off this story, here you go. Next, unless your definition of 'nerd' is someone who enjoys the Lord of the Rings movies the rest of the quoted part of your statement is also false. For an example of that the action is staged in such a way that it is neither intellectually stimulating nor fun in a threatening real way. The action becomes boring because it functions as a video game without the tension created by possibly losing. That's just one example of how Jackson's movie are very flawed and have a lot to improve upon.

E. Spaceman:
Reading comprehension would indicate that when he writes "I thought Lord of the Rings was incredible and that no other team of people would have been able to pull it off. Almost every criticism I see about those films[...]" he is talking about the movie and the production team. That makes the rest of the lil' rant misdirected and unnecesary.

knives:
How so? He said that he felt that the story for the Lord of the rings couldn't be pulled off by a different production team, I showed an example of a movie that while not an adaptation of Lord of the Rings, it was made before the books, it is based on the same source material as LotR so I found it to be comparable. There's nothing misdirected in that. The rest of my counter to his statement also goes with the same logic. As for unnecessary, well you have me beat there.

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