Mordiceius posted:

We've made it a nightly routine to read a little bit of a book together every night. We've gone through the Hobbit and we're working through Lord of the Rings. Then we plan on going on to Harry Potter, Hitchhikers Guide, and more. It's a way to just relax after long days.

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Basically this.

Gimmedaroot posted:

I don't think its unusual. I have a friend who took The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings with his family to national state parks, and they would read passages in between hikes. His favorite place to read to his wife was near a secluded waterfall. If that's unusual or weird, then it's really sad most people think that way.

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“Anybody who says they knew it was going to be the success it was, I don’t think it’s really true,” he says. “They didn’t have an inkling until they showed 20 minutes in Cannes, in May of 2001. They were in a lot of trouble, and Peter had spent a lot. Officially, he could say that he was finished in December 2000 – he’d shot all three films in the trilogy – but really the second and third ones were a mess. It was very sloppy – it just wasn’t done at all. It needed massive reshoots, which we did, year after year. But he would have never been given the extra money to do those if the first one hadn’t been a huge success. The second and third ones would have been straight to video.”

Mortensen thinks – rightly – that The Fellowship of the Ring turned out the best of the three, perhaps largely because it was shot in one go. “It was very confusing, we were going at such a pace, and they had so many units shooting, it was really insane. But it’s true that the first script was better organised,” he says. “Also, Peter was always a geek in terms of technology but, once he had the means to do it, and the evolution of the technology really took off, he never looked back. In the first movie, yes, there’s Rivendell, and Mordor, but there’s sort of an organic quality to it, actors acting with each other, and real landscapes; it’s grittier. The second movie already started ballooning, for my taste, and then by the third one, there were a lot of special effects. It was grandiose, and all that, but whatever was subtle, in the first movie, gradually got lost in the second and third. Now with The Hobbit, one and two, it’s like that to the power of 10.

“I guess Peter became like Ridley Scott – this one-man industry now, with all these people depending on him,” Mortensen adds. “But you can make a choice, I think. I asked Ridley when I worked with him (on 1997’s GI Jane), 'Why don’t you do another film like The Duellists [Scott’s 1977 debut, from a Joseph Conrad short story]?’ And Peter, I was sure he would do another intimately scaled film like Heavenly Creatures, maybe with this project about New Zealanders in the First World War he wanted to make. But then he did King Kong. And then he did The Lovely Bones – and I thought that would be his smaller movie. But the problem is, he did it on a 90 million budget. That should have been a 15 million movie. The special effects thing, the genie, was out of the bottle, and it has him. And he’s happy, I think…”

Ungoal posted:

Some interesting piece with Viggo Mortensen criticizing Peter Jackson, CGI & the Hobbit movies starting with his experience working with him on LOTR:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10826867/Viggo-Mortensen-interview-Peter-Jackson-sacrificed-subtlety-for-CGI.html


The whole thing in the link is worth reading, actually.

Oasx posted:

It is worth noting that Viggo has said that he wasn't happy with the article, and that they conveniently left out the parts where he speaks positively about Jackson and the movies.

hepatizon posted:

Link?

Oasx posted:

It is worth noting that Viggo has said that he wasn't happy with the article, and that they conveniently left out the parts where he speaks positively about Jackson and the movies.

Oasx posted:

It probably won't do you much good since it is in Danish. Viggo is going to star in a Danish movie, he was at the Cannes film festival, and a newspaper asked him about the article.
http://politiken.dk/kultur/filmogtv/cannes/ECE2292248/viggo-mortensen-taler-dansk-for-foerste-gang---paa-film/

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"They tell only half the story. Yes, I think there were too many special effects in the Lord of the Rings films. But I criticized not only Peter Jackson. I also said that I always do, that I am very grateful that he took me to the movies. I owe Peter Jackson everything. If he had not given me the chance, I probably could not have made all the movies I've been in. And I would not be sitting here today, "said Viggo Mortensen Politiken.

Hedrigall posted:

edit 2: Actually it'll probably be at Comic-Con this month.

Hedrigall posted:

Gotta say I'm getting a real big anticipation boner from that poster.

Octy posted:

I still think it ought to have been called 'There and Back Again'.

Bongo Bill posted:

I thought it was called that. When did it change?

Crows Turn Off posted:

I haven't read the books, but I had a question about the the events of Desolation of Smaug. I know that Tauriel is a character made-up explicitly for the movie. So, in the books:
1) Does Kili still get poisoned? How does he get healed?
2) Does Legolas still go to Lake-town and if so, what is his motivation to go there?

Crows Turn Off posted:

I haven't read the books, but I had a question about the the events of Desolation of Smaug. I know that Tauriel is a character made-up explicitly for the movie. So, in the books:
1) Does Kili still get poisoned? How does he get healed?
2) Does Legolas still go to Lake-town and if so, what is his motivation to go there?

sassassin posted:

No, no

Bongo Bill posted:

Neither of those events happen in the book. Legolas isn't even in it.

Bongo Bill posted:

This trilogy is less an adaptation of The Hobbit and more an adaptation of the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, one of which describes all the things that were happening elsewhere at the time of Bilbo's adventure that he didn't know about because he was busy being afraid and uncomfortable in a succession of caves.

Neowyrm posted: