Posted on 07/20/2004 12:26:58 PM PDT by quidnunc
Bring back the hamburgler.
Robble robble robble.
It SHOULD be remade for the mentally challenged whose minds can't grasp the allegory.
Sauron is recast as Osama Bin Ladden. The Orcs are Islamic Fundamentalists, Saroman the White is Saddam Hussein, the Mountain Orcs are the Iranian Ayatollahs, the Ring of Power are WMD, Bush is Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gangy is Cheny, the Nazgul are Islamic Terrorists, the Elves are the Christian Fundamentalists, the Dwarfs are the Conservatives, and the Balrog is the entire western Liberal Establishment.
Mount Doom is where we are all headed unless we get rid of the Islamic Fundamentalists.
Oh, and I forgot - Gollum is John Kerry.
Also, Gandulf is Rumsfeld.
Rumor has it that The Hobbit is going to be made, by PJ. Anyone know anything about this?
that was great!!!!!!
Well, it would certainly give us something to ~talk~ about in the hobbit hole.... ;~D
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Leaving out Bombadil is what convinced me there was hope the movies would be good. The single most annoying character in the books, one of the most annoying characters in literature.
I will never forgive George for the Greedo-shooting-first affront to God and Man. Yes, I am a geek.
The Hobbit? He expressed a willingness to do it...
Lawyers have to write a lot of letters and people will have to write checks over the rights.
I've read that as well. I'd love to see the Sillmarillion made into a movie - I thought that was even better than LOTR.
Don't be such a pickle stu. Lots of people love Bombadil, he can be less than a favorite of yours but you don't have to be insulting!
Those were cartoons, not movies.
Just this past weekend, reading through LOTR the second time, I had a kinder view of him, but still found myself wishing these chapters had not been in the way.
Besides, there comes the question of casting an actor to play Tom Bombadil. And of course, there's only one person who could accurately portray a sing-songy, flamboyant, brightly dressed character: Nathan Lane.
And that would kill us, kill us... (and kill the movie).
(I should say though I find the debate over what or who Tom is to be fascinating).
I'd go see 'em.
What I could see and would enjoy would be expanded screenplays of parts of the huge story, as if LoTR was a genre in itself, like Arthurian legends are. No one need take on the entire work in a package again.... many different and very interesting parts of the stories could be made into fine movies.
Cartoons are movies.
Heh, for me, Dobby from the Harry Potter books ranks up there too.
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