Badda Bing Badda Boom he nails it. LOTR was as big and as a commercial as Hollywood gets. The marketing and advertising budgets alone were enough to feed most thirdworld countries for a decade.
Bosco --- Daryle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wha? Have you SEEN the LOTR films? Is it possible to BE more > Hollywood than > a multimillion dollar film starring Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, Sean > Bean, > Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving (POST Matrix), Elijah Wood, Sir Ian > McKellen > (who HAD done X Men at this point) this was as Hollywood as you > could GET in > 2001. > > ³It² is subjective. If you don¹t like Peter Jackson, you don¹t > like Peter > Jackson. But to say that ANY of the LOTR films seemed Independent > is not to > understand independent film. Star Wars Episode 4, as it was > released in > 1977, is an example of a big budget independent film. LOTR is an > example of > Hollywood pulling out all the stops to make a picture. > > > On 12/24/07 6:12 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 12/23/2007 7:17:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:tdlists%40multiculturaladvantage.com> writes: > > > > M. Night Shyamalan wrote Stuart Little the > > same year he did the Six Sense > > > > Flop Too commmerical. > > Harry Potter was too commercial. I like LOTR films because it > did not have > > that Hollywood commercial film. It was as if it was an > independent film. > > Potter is too generic to co,pare. The director will not have that > "magic" > > that > > will not make it a commerical film. I am not talking about a > independent film. > > I > > am talking about IT". Jackson did something to those books that > transforme > > them. Yes he changed some things. However he made them > beautiful. I loved the > > location and sets. it was as if you were really there. It was not > a ypical > > fantasy film. > > > > > > Curon and del Toro will not build upon that. Since there are some > characters > > from the first books in the Hobbit, the film will be different. > It won't have > > that same feeling. I am not looking for Gothic or Sullen Harry > Potter. > > > > **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes > > (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > I got friends who are in prison and Friends who are dead. I'm gonna tell ya something that I've often said. You know these things that happen, That's just the way it's supposed to be. And I can't help but wonder, Don't ya know it coulda been me. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
