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I\u2019m on record<\/a> as saying that Peter Jackson\u2019s take on Lord of the Rings<\/em> was only so-so.\u00a0\u00a0I know any movie will have to make changes from the book, but I insist they improve the movie, not make it worse.\u00a0 Jackson, whose overall track record is one of rather superficial, shallow schlock, seemed in over his head when it came to LoTR.\u00a0 Not that it was all bad.\u00a0 He certainly had a knack for catching the overall vision.\u00a0 But then again, he hired individuals who had spent their lives bringing Tolkien\u2019s work to life through art.\u00a0 He merely had the model makers take their paintings and make them into CGI images or miniatures.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Jackson\u2019s biggest blunder was taking the reigns of the screenplay.\u00a0 While the pre-LoTR hype had Jackson insisting that making Rings was his life long dream, his pre-King Kong hype changed the story a little.\u00a0 Turns out, according to pre-KK publicity, Jackson really wanted to make King Kong his whole life.\u00a0 While waiting for his dream to materialize, he\u00a0decided to make a fantasy film in the 90s.\u00a0 After trying to make up a fantasy world and finding he lacked the time (and talent), he decided to grab Lord of the Rings<\/em> since there was a world already in place.\u00a0 And the way he approached the screenplay suggested there was more truth to that than not.\u00a0 The biggest flaws and flubs of his cinematic trilogy usually involved Jackson stepping in and pushing Tolkien\u2019s story off the stage.\u00a0 Rewriting parts, changing characters, adding entire subplots nowhere to be found in the books, stepping out of the cultural setting, and creating loopholes and inconsistencies \u2013 these were what made the movies more difficult to watch as the years roll on.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

So I am less shocked than\u00a0others are when I read that Jackson is casting actors for parts that had nothing to do with The Hobbit<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 That\u2019s about par for the course.\u00a0 Too much of me felt that Jackson just wanted to throw his arms up in front of Tokien and say \u2018I appreciated your efforts old fellow, but let me show you how it should have been done.\u2019\u00a0 And the final product was the worse for it. Don\u2019t get me wrong, the films are OK, and there are parts that are very, very good \u2013 usually when Jackson steps out of the way and lets the original source material do the talking.\u00a0 But count me as one who feels there were just as many problems and shortcomings as the previous animated attempts to bring Middle Earth to the big screen.\u00a0 I have a feeling The Hobbit<\/em> will be the same old, same old, and likely no better than the animated version (if not worse).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"