(No hobbits involved.)
If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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sumi - Dec 06, 2012 11:23:44 am PST #23042 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Jessica - Dec 07, 2012 4:44:28 am PST #23043 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I am so sorry I ever doubted you, PJ. The Hobbit is completely fucking amazing. It almost makes me wish he'd done this one first so he could have had the liberty to make LotR with this amount of detail.* Nothing is left out, and a whole lot of stuff from the Silmarillion is crammed in. SO MUCH TOLKIEN NERD GOODNESS OMG.
And oh my Martin Freeman. I could eat him up with a spoon.
(The only thing I'm not 100% sold on is the HFR projection. In some scenes it's immersive and incredible and in others it just looks weird.)
OTOH, I just found out that by leaving the holiday party early to go to this screening, I missed being in a conga line with Matt Smith. WHY MUST LIFE BE SO UNFAIR.
*Which I realize would have meant 9 or 12 movies instead of three...and that would have been just fine.
Polter-Cow - Dec 07, 2012 4:53:18 am PST #23044 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Is it completely fucking amazing if you're not a Tolkien nerd?
Jessica - Dec 07, 2012 4:57:37 am PST #23045 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Um...I wouldn't know? Possibly not.
JZ - Dec 07, 2012 5:00:45 am PST #23046 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
OTOH, I just found out that by leaving the holiday party early to go to this screening, I missed being in a conga line with Matt Smith. WHY MUST LIFE BE SO UNFAIR.
Also, your diamond shoes are too tight and your wallet is too small to hold all these fifties!
Your squee has taken me straight from Meh, I'll wait until it shows up on Netflix to Now now now!
Jessica - Dec 07, 2012 5:01:19 am PST #23047 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also, your diamond shoes are too tight and your wallet is too small to hold all these fifties!
Right??
Consuela - Dec 07, 2012 5:01:49 am PST #23048 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Thanks for the early enthusiasm, Jessica! That movie is pretty much the only thing getting me through the next week.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 07, 2012 5:41:10 am PST #23049 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Other than the actual film method issues it sounds like Jackson is erring on the side of including everything. Since I much preferred The Hobbit to LotR I think the new film's going to be right up my alley.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2012 6:22:17 am PST #23050 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I realise I just bought the midnight ticket and didn't check how it was being projected.
I might have to see it TWICE, then...
le nubian - Dec 07, 2012 7:19:28 am PST #23051 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
It sounds like PJ has all the nerdboys and -girls sewn up. I wonder if the general public will big fans?
I know the Hobbit better than LOTR, so we will see...