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My first exposure to the series was the show and I didn't start reading the books until after season two. I felt like such an idiot after being done because I remembered what a big deal they make about the Benjen thing in the show and I was like this is gonna pay off at some point but it never did. I did get Dany making GBS threads though. That was unexpected, I guess.
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The show and how terrible book 4/5 were will swell our ranks like the pizza swells Gurms mass.
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Dec 12, 2012 01:02
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SaviourX posted:There's just nothing like the salt and sea breeze that, oh my lady, that, drat.” The whole thing was great, but this and the "non existent braid" got me the best for some reason.
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Dec 12, 2012 02:16
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Whats a yearning fuckhome, SaviourX, and where can I get one?
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Dec 12, 2012 02:24
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Vigilance posted:All this talk of the Hobbit makes me wonder what Tolkien would think of GRMM's books had he lived long enough to read them. It's probably for the best that we'll never know. I honestly think he'd be disappointed with how cynical the genre has become if GRRM is being hailed as the American version of him.
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Oh hey, hobbit discussion. Yeah, I think GURM's kind of ruined fantasy for me. I'm seeing it this Thursday, and if there isn't hobbit girl tits bouncing everywhere and lesbian elves, I don't think it'll be as fun. Especially since I'm seeing it with my 15 y/o brother. Seriously though, are they splitting it into three parts?
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Dec 12, 2012 02:40
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Contra Calculus posted:Oh hey, hobbit discussion. Why would any franchise split up into parts? 
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It's also because Jackson wants to cram in as much of Tolkien's footnotes as possible. I'd be very interested to hear what the British GRRM would have to say about that, too.
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Dec 12, 2012 02:59
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Contra Calculus posted:Seriously though, are they splitting it into three parts? It was going to be two originally, so either they decided to turn two very long movies into three more reasonably paced films with more Tolkien footnotes, or as Dead Man Posting said, money. Or both.
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Dec 12, 2012 03:01
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I think that because Deathly Hollows made plenty of money even when split into two halves, film-makers have been given carte blanche to split up long books like this.
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Dec 12, 2012 03:07
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Can't wait until The Old Man and the Sea trilogy comes out.
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Dec 12, 2012 03:39
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An Introduction to Arms An Intermedium with Arms A Farewell to Arms
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bigmcgaffney posted:Whats a yearning fuckhome, SaviourX, and where can I get one? Gotta apply for the pussy mortgage, man. quote:split up long books like this. Please say this is a jape. Splitting book-movies is the dumbest thing. I'll see the first because I saw Fellowship by myself the first time and it was great, but after that, probably wait on it. But yeah, internets say they third one is 'The Desolation of Smaug'. What in the gently caress kind of big movie name is that.
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Dec 12, 2012 08:24
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I still say it should have been two movies. "There" and "Back Again", easy fuckin' peasy. Tolkien did all the work for you!
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Dec 12, 2012 08:37
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SaviourX posted:Please say this is a jape. It guess it is,actually. If the Hobbit trilogy crashes and burns, though, the "trend" is going to come to a screeching halt.
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Dec 12, 2012 08:40
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Don't forget that the abysmal third book of the Hunger Games trilogy is being split in two, despite the book not having enough content for 1 movie.
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Dec 12, 2012 09:08
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Don't forget that the abysmal third book of the Hunger Games trilogy is being split in two, despite the book not having enough content for 1 movie. drat, that was exactly who I thought was going to try this poo poo next.
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thornghost posted:Go, SaviorX, go! We're now at 44,163 magnificent words. That's 176 pages manuscript! It's good to have that up to date, but you've still got chapter 5 done by Geeves instead of myself. Arbite fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Dec 12, 2012 |
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Don't forget that the abysmal third book of the Hunger Games trilogy is being split in two, despite the book not having enough content for 1 movie. Twilight did this as well. The entire climax to the movie is a dream sequence that doesn't exist in the novel just so the characters have something to do.
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Dec 12, 2012 12:20
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I'm not really excited about Hobbit anymore. I was wary about two films for such a short book, and my interest basically vanished when they announced it would be three. "Discovering" you had filmed so much and paced it so ploddingly that you have to divide the final film into two parts, that's a horrible mistake. Part of the whole thing about the Hobbit is Bilbo leaves his slow, boring life and walks into Die Hard with a Pipeweed. Three movies, all of which will of course be like 2.5 hours long in theatres and longer at home, is just drawing out everything to the point of insanity. It speaks very poorly of Jackson's approach to this project that he "discovered" enough footage to warrant a third film. That's loving awful planning on his part. I would not be surprised at all if the common complaint of all these films is how slow they are.
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Arbite posted:It's good to have that up to date, but you've still got chapter 5 done by Geeves instead of myself. Your good name has been restored!
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Haraksha posted:Twilight did this as well. The entire climax to the movie is a dream sequence that doesn't exist in the novel just so the characters have something to do. My sister told me about this last week, literally every character shows up to have a fight, but instead someone has a psychic vision of what would happen if they fight and they all die so they don't do it. In the book someone declares they can't fight and everyone just goes home in a complete non-ending.
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Dec 12, 2012 15:59
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Sophia posted:Can't wait until The Old Man and the Sea trilogy comes out. 9 hours of Gurm in a dingy. 
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Teim posted:My sister told me about this last week, literally every character shows up to have a fight, but instead someone has a psychic vision of what would happen if they fight and they all die so they don't do it. In the book someone declares they can't fight and everyone just goes home in a complete non-ending. Criticizing Twilight's plot is just needlessly cruel. It's like criticizing GRRM's choice in suspenders.
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Dec 12, 2012 17:05
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If you want to take 9 hours to tell a story, make a TV show!
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Or a Tolkien movie. At least when James Cameron makes a long rear end movie you get to see Kate Winslet's boobs or giant sexy blue cat people fighting robots.
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Dec 12, 2012 17:54
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whowhatwhere posted:Criticizing Twilight's plot is just needlessly cruel. It's like criticizing GRRM's choice in suspenders. Twilight?! This is how TWOW ends.
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Teim posted:Twilight?! This is how TWOW ends. Dany's mind spilled forth a field of utter carnage and desolation. Bodies littered the field, crows plucking at eyeballs, fluttering away in raucous victory. It had finally come to this, her kingdom in ruins, winter stealing the very warmth of life away in the form of too-cruel beings of ice and frost. The world rushed back to her, still mounted atop Victarion, the forces of Grayjoy and Tarly and Hightower next her, still ready for battle. The one they called Snow still sat his great nightmare of a destrier, cold undead eyes fixed on her. The lines of wights and shadows advanced. "Nah, gently caress it," she said. She hauled on the reigns and her dragon took off. Zombie Jon stared after her, shrugged, and motioned everyone to take off to the sea, because the other zombies couldn't swim, duh. The game of bones would continue, all over the world. Also, he had a massive boner the entire time.
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Emilia Clarke posted:“It was less my dad, it was more, as I found out last Christmas… my uncle Ken,” she said. “He’s from Yorkshire, and it was over Christmas… But he was kind of alarmed, I think, when he saw it… It was last Christmas. He sort of looked me dead in the eye, and was like ‘Emilia, you didn’t tell me! You didn’t tell me that you’d be naked for that long.’” Somewhere, a fat man is smiling...
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IRQ posted:9 hours of Gurm in a dingy. The Captain's hat has waited for its time too long.
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Can anyone c/d if there are in fact fart jokes in the hobbit movie? I just read somewhere that they do.
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SaviourX posted:The world rushed back to her, still mounted atop Victarion She's loving Victarion while riding a dragon? Truly a scene worthy of Gurm.
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Dec 13, 2012 00:35
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Blowing the Horn actually fuses him to the back of Drogon, which is how it allows him to "control" the dragons.
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TheLoquid posted:She's loving Victarion while riding a dragon? Truly a scene worthy of Gurm. Or the side of a windowless van.
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Contra Calculus posted:Can anyone c/d if there are in fact fart jokes in the hobbit movie? I just read somewhere that they do. I'm not sure how you make a movie about fourteen fat dudes who spend the majority of their eating and walking and not include fart jokes. It would seem more contrived without them really.
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thornghost posted:I'm not sure how you make a movie about fourteen fat dudes who spend the majority of their eating and walking and not include fart jokes. It would seem more contrived without them really. Fart jokes for the sake of  Artistic Integrity?
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Please make sure to go see The Hobbit in a theater doing 48fps so you can personally experience the full breadth of what a bad decision maker Peter Jackson is.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Please make sure to go see The Hobbit in a theater doing 48fps so you can personally experience the full breadth of what a bad decision maker Peter Jackson is. Care to elaborate?
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whowhatwhere posted:Care to elaborate? Some people think that upping the frame rate makes the movie look hokey (often compared to the weird flat look of a soap opera.) Here is a thing that explains the phenomenon much better from someone who saw actually saw it. Contains spoilers I guess? Apologies for Huffpo.
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The bigger complaint is that the faster frame rate leaves people nauseous. We can only hope it is used in the televised climax of ADWD.
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