tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post6279459857386770243..comments2024-03-18T14:53:45.102-04:00Comments on Workshop Heretic: Top Ten Suckiest Parts of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings TrilogyJacob Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591038654403487222noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post-32735421676273620132015-09-01T19:56:08.256-04:002015-09-01T19:56:08.256-04:00A person can fail as a writer and succeed as a cri...A person can fail as a writer and succeed as a critic. They are two different jobs. I never claimed I knew storytelling better than Peter Jackson. I think Tolkien knows storytelling better than Jackson. (You do realize Lord of the Rings wasn't Jackson's story, right?) <br /><br />Jackson does a lot well. His sets are great. He has a great artist's eye for scene during stiller shots. I, and a million other people, think of him like George Lucas, a great guy for visual stuff who has a tin ear for dialogue. <br /><br />Honestly, I could launch into another invective about Jackson's weaknesses, but there's nothing I could say that the three terrible Hobbit movies didn't already say for me. Jacob Weberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591038654403487222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post-17508255024642177722015-08-15T22:00:39.622-04:002015-08-15T22:00:39.622-04:00So...you are a failed writer, correct? Do you thin...So...you are a failed writer, correct? Do you think that might be because you just don't have a feel or an understanding of what makes a good story? Do you think that might also be behind your having the inexplicable impulse to tell Peter Jackson that you know storytelling better than he does? Just a theory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post-62362849214853239432015-07-16T17:05:31.337-04:002015-07-16T17:05:31.337-04:00Thanks. Although if you've ever endured watchi...Thanks. Although if you've ever endured watching all three movies with me during a LOTR-fest (which I do, even though I hate parts of the movies), you'll know that watching them with me is pretty much twelve hours of erection jokes and tittering nervously with a bunch of dudes over Hobbit homo-eroticism. That, and listening to me drunkenly say almost word for word everything I just wrote down. Jacob Weberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591038654403487222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post-33142466848914977812015-07-16T00:20:26.709-04:002015-07-16T00:20:26.709-04:00"I always read those last lines when most men... "I always read those last lines when most men my age take Viagra"<br /><br />Love this. baimaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11594126896669547292noreply@blogger.com