I dunno, man. I’m super torn on this one. On the one hand, Stephen Colbert is a lovely human who very obviously has a deep passion and lifelong interest in these stories, and I’m genuinely happy for him that he gets to live what must be a dream come true.
On the other, Hollywood’s past treatment of Tolkien’s work, excepting the three original movies, is like watching a meth’ed out homeless guy beat your favorite uncle to death and piss on his corpse.
I dunno, man. I’m super torn on this one. On the one hand, Stephen Colbert is a lovely human who very obviously has a deep passion and lifelong interest in these stories, and I’m genuinely happy for him that he gets to live what must be a dream come true.
On the other, Hollywood’s past treatment of Tolkien’s work, excepting the three original movies, is like watching a meth’ed out homeless guy beat your favorite uncle to death and piss on his corpse.
I’d say I’m tentatively optimistic.
I think I’ll assume you mean the first three Peter Jackson movies, which were not the original film adaptations.
Let’s not forget the Finnish Hobbit!
Original live action.
Thank you, internet pedant. You’ve truly saved Lemmy.
Technically speaking the Bakshi versions were, in a sense, live action since they were all rotoscoped.
i love the bakshis
“Hey, the guy playing Aragorn tripped over his own sword? Should we fix that?”
“Nah, fuck it, leave it.”