[ SECRET POST #3998 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3998 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

For me, I think it was the release of the Hobbit trilogy that brought everything out. It made it easier to see that Jackson is basically Lucas-lite: he has some good ideas but he works best under certain constraints and as part of a team to check him so he isn't just able to put whatever bullshit pops into his head in there. You can tell because he recycled the whole "Arwen warrior princess goes to helm's Deep" plot that he didn't get to use for Tauriel, his OC donut steele. So when you watch The Hobbit movies, and then go back and watch the LOTR trilogy, you can see that the bad stuff was always there just under the surface. I grew up watching them, but it wasn't until later that I realized my two biggest gripes: jackson takes everything in the books so fucking LITERALLY (see: sauron essentially actually being a literal fucking eye wreathed in flame), and he takes any semblance of subtlety and throws it out the window (see: everything involving magic). Granted, given all of Jackson's other work, this should not be a surprise, but it kind of sucks if you want a more faithful adaptation of LOTR in terms of tone and even like, events and such.

BUT, I still enjoy the LOTR movies. It helps if you can bring yourself to truly embrace them as separate from the books. I have all of the extended edition DVDs (and FOTR on blu-ray, keeping my eyes peeled for the others) and I've watched the making-of extras on them probably more times than I've seen the movies themselves. The sheer CRAFTSMANSHIP that went into every part of creating the movies blows me away, even if they're not perfect and certainly not perfect adaptations. So for me, i still have that nostalgia and fondness for them, it's just that my perspective has shifted a bit.

Fuck the Hobbit trilogy though. The Rankin-bass movie is more than sufficient for my needs, and it's way more beautiful visually to boot.

[(Anonymous)]

SA: Also wanted to add that these movies gave me a lifelong enduring love for basically the whole cast, who are all amazing IMO. I did not even know until recently that Brad Dourif also played Chucky, he's always been Wormtongue to me.

[philstar22]

Brad Dourif has been in so many things I like playing lots of slimy characters or just interesting characters (see his character in Babylon 5). The first thing I saw him in was Star Trek: Voyager.

[(Anonymous)]

Back in about 95 Dourif played a perfectly straight role as a police inspector n am Agatha Christie adaptation called The Pale Horse. It was weird to see him just playing a nice normal good guy. And fun!