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zeldamaster13
08-13-2002, 03:49 AM
Are you for or against Peter Jackson, fully realizing how hard it was to adapt a book like Lord of the Rings into movies? Also realizing that you really couldn't have done any better?
ReadWryt
08-13-2002, 04:07 AM
Why is the argument allways that *I* couldn't have done any better? I mean, do I have to be able to cook a Gigot d'Agneau with a Poivrade sauce to be able to say unequivicably that the one on the table in front of me tastes like freshly used basketball sneaker?
zeldamaster13
08-13-2002, 02:33 PM
My brother wrote this thread, not me. While I still think PJ did a good job, I do believe that some of ya'll could attempt to do better. If you had 600 million dollars.
Parrot
08-13-2002, 04:20 PM
Originally posted by Confusticated
Alot of what was great about the movie was chosen by PJ, but not created by him.
Wouldn't this be true of just about any movie, good or bad? Hiring the right people and making the right choices are skills too.
Lhunithiliel
08-13-2002, 07:12 PM
I voted FOR!

But of course! Great job and great courage PJ showed to dare put on the wide screen such a masterpiece of the world literature!
Besides, I respect greatly his vison and his attitudes shown in respect to some of the characters and the events!
Parrot
08-13-2002, 07:48 PM
Look at all the money spent on the making of the movie. Do you think that PJ himself designed Rivendell? Lothlorien? Hell no! Some other artists were payed to do it. With enough money anyone can find someone to make a beautiful Rivendell, or find someone to compose the right music for the movie. Did PJ design the costumes? I think not. Alot of what was great about the movie was chosen by PJ, but not created by him.
You seem to be criticizing him for things that are true of all films of this scale, so I guess I don't know what it is you're trying to say.
aragil
08-13-2002, 08:05 PM
Originally posted by Confusticated
Originally posted by Parrot
Wouldn't this be true of just about any movie, good or bad? Hiring the right people and making the right choices are skills too.

It would be true of high budget films. Did I say that it wouldn't be?
Hiring the right people and making the right choices are skills too, say you? I never said that they were not.

C- what you did say was that
Originally posted by Confusticated
With enough money anyone can find someone to make a beautiful Rivendell, or find someone to compose the right music for the movie

Can't speak for my homebird Parrot, but the impression that this gave me was that you don't think PJ showed any particular skill in this area- you seem to be suggesting that anyone can do it.