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The mind boggles at this announcement:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19055342
I'm staring at my bookshelf right now trying to gauge the relative thicknesses of my paperback copies of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The one is a not particularly thick single volume. The other is three big, fat volumes. Do the math, as somebody from 'tother side of the Atlantic may once have said.
Mind you, I'm sure Peter Jackson's done the math too, and 1.5x the presumably ludicrous amount of money he was already bound to make out of this project seems like very good business, really.
Seriously, the subject of my love/hate relationship with the LOTR film trilogy is a subject for another longer, even rantier post, but all I will say is this: Orlando Bloom shooting CGI elephants with his bow and arrow. Turning the most epic (in the true sense of the word) scene in the entire novel into a sub-Attack of the Clones video game level in the making. Yeah. Expect more of that.
Oh, and I've officially gone from Olympics-sceptic to quite enjoying it all, really. I'm such a sell-out. Probably all those Tories lining up to call the opening ceremony "leftist propaganda" (because it celebrated the NHS and included *gasp* non-white performers, apparently) finally swayed me. Anything that annoys the likes of them has to be alright, if you ask me. Doesn't make the security/ticketing/corporate piracy stuff all right, mind you. Not by a long shot.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19055342
I'm staring at my bookshelf right now trying to gauge the relative thicknesses of my paperback copies of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The one is a not particularly thick single volume. The other is three big, fat volumes. Do the math, as somebody from 'tother side of the Atlantic may once have said.
Mind you, I'm sure Peter Jackson's done the math too, and 1.5x the presumably ludicrous amount of money he was already bound to make out of this project seems like very good business, really.
Seriously, the subject of my love/hate relationship with the LOTR film trilogy is a subject for another longer, even rantier post, but all I will say is this: Orlando Bloom shooting CGI elephants with his bow and arrow. Turning the most epic (in the true sense of the word) scene in the entire novel into a sub-Attack of the Clones video game level in the making. Yeah. Expect more of that.
Oh, and I've officially gone from Olympics-sceptic to quite enjoying it all, really. I'm such a sell-out. Probably all those Tories lining up to call the opening ceremony "leftist propaganda" (because it celebrated the NHS and included *gasp* non-white performers, apparently) finally swayed me. Anything that annoys the likes of them has to be alright, if you ask me. Doesn't make the security/ticketing/corporate piracy stuff all right, mind you. Not by a long shot.
