Posted on 02/24/2023 9:54:05 AM PST by Red Badger
As already stated by others, a remake is just an excuse to make it more Woke and politically-correct.
guaranteed sam and frodo would be gay lovers in a remake, along with blacks playing elves, I’ll pass.
When Hollywood starts making remakes of movies that originally stared blacks in the lead like... “Shaft” and then casts a lilly white red head in the roll then I will believe they are simply ignoring race and pricking the best person and not simply sticking a thumb in the eye of white Americans.
Whatever and however they handle it, they will make it Woker than Woke. Makes me want to throw up, thinking about how Hollywood will shred Middle Earth.
Major characters will be “of color”, gay, trans, Bi and non-Binary.
Sam Smith as Legolas. Will Smith as Aragorn.
Gonna be a groove.
My eyes shall not behold this travesty.
[Bilbo Baggins passed away three years ago, so he won’t be rebooting anything.]
Mixed ....
Some reviews I saw said it sucked.
Some other reviews I saw said it was a demonic abhomiation from HELL!
I’ve never watched any of the LOTR movies either. I have a strict policy that if I enjoyed a book, I’ll never see the filmed version.
Science fiction or any fiction is best read.
The author sets the scene and the readers mind fills in the minute details.
Tolkien and Herbert look very different in my mind than thier film portrayals.
So much of Dune takes places inside the characters heads that’s hard to translate to video. The original movie tried to use voiceovers to deal with this but it didn’t work very well.
The best part of Dune (the original book) is that Herbert built his world, his universe, his history with so few words. He did it through implication and just a few prompts, making his readers fill in the (vast) blanks.
Dune, more than most novels, is a forced exercise of the imagination.
A lesser writer would have lost himself in endless exposition.
The best part of Dune (the original book) is that Herbert built his world, his universe, his history with so few words. He did it through implication and just a few prompts, making his readers fill in the (vast) blanks.
Dune, more than most novels, is a forced exercise of the imagination.
A lesser writer would have lost himself in endless exposition.
I hope there isn’t any remakes, but they expand in different stories in the lore and books.
The irony of it all....Herbert built his fortune on the reimagined uses of worm excrement....someone somewhere in the infernal regions was laughing at the foolishness of humans to so quickly part with their money. Obama used the same technique...vague positive generalities and open happy happy promises while castigating “enemies” by stoking voters’ paranoia with broadly general negative descriptives...and fools just filled in the blanks!
No, it doesn’t make sense. But, if they do it in West Saxon or Icelandic or Norse with subtitles I might be persuaded to watch.
There is still on more Tolkien novel that hasn’t been made into a movie..................
I read the “Game of Thrones” books as well by George RR Martin (actually the unfinished series is titled “A Song Of Ice And Fire”). Much superior to the TV show but not for everybody as themes of incest, torture, and gratuitious murders permeate the novels. In fact, I would say that most Tolkien readers would not enjoy the Martin books at all because there are very few happy endings for the characters and most of them are very immoral. Only Samwell Tarly comes close to a Tolkiern character in my opinion.
Tommen was a good person. Yeah, I don’t mind the sex and violence. I’ve read worse. Jack Whyte was beyond disgusting.
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