Reservations
I dunno. I was poking around online when I found this.
Years ago, when Fellowship of the Ring came out, I was pretty eager to see it, just so that I could finally understand what the hell went on in the books. I'd read them in my teen years (oh so long ago) and I have to agree with Jason that J.R.R. Tolkien can't write worth a shit. But when I got out of the movie theater that first movie, I thought to myself, "It would have been better if they'd done a Dragonlance movie instead."
Well, looks like that's exactly what they're doing. Unfortunately, it's going to be animated, so I feel that it's being robbed of something. Like people aren't going to see it as a much better series than Lord of the Rings just because no production company is going to shill out the millions of dollars to make it a live action movie. But they'll make a Transformers movie that is live-action. Can someone explain this to me, please?
Anyway, all in all, I guess I am looking forward to it, but I think they may have wanted to wait a year or two. However, I will have to go to GenCon next year for certain, if anything to get the authors takes on the whole movie adeptation thing. I met them four years ago and still can't get over how kind and open they were. I also can't believe how suddenly I went from Mild-mannered Jon to frothing-at-the-mouth fanboy Jon around them. Next time, I promise to keep my shit together.
Also, I guess I'm gonna have to pick up the new book that's out this month since it's out and I have nothing else to read since I just re-read the War of Souls trilogy.
In other news, I'm broke and it sucks. I'm still waiting to hear word on when I have a check coming my way from the lawyers. If I'm lucky, it'll be sometime this year.
Years ago, when Fellowship of the Ring came out, I was pretty eager to see it, just so that I could finally understand what the hell went on in the books. I'd read them in my teen years (oh so long ago) and I have to agree with Jason that J.R.R. Tolkien can't write worth a shit. But when I got out of the movie theater that first movie, I thought to myself, "It would have been better if they'd done a Dragonlance movie instead."
Well, looks like that's exactly what they're doing. Unfortunately, it's going to be animated, so I feel that it's being robbed of something. Like people aren't going to see it as a much better series than Lord of the Rings just because no production company is going to shill out the millions of dollars to make it a live action movie. But they'll make a Transformers movie that is live-action. Can someone explain this to me, please?
Anyway, all in all, I guess I am looking forward to it, but I think they may have wanted to wait a year or two. However, I will have to go to GenCon next year for certain, if anything to get the authors takes on the whole movie adeptation thing. I met them four years ago and still can't get over how kind and open they were. I also can't believe how suddenly I went from Mild-mannered Jon to frothing-at-the-mouth fanboy Jon around them. Next time, I promise to keep my shit together.
Also, I guess I'm gonna have to pick up the new book that's out this month since it's out and I have nothing else to read since I just re-read the War of Souls trilogy.
In other news, I'm broke and it sucks. I'm still waiting to hear word on when I have a check coming my way from the lawyers. If I'm lucky, it'll be sometime this year.
posted by Not Your TGM | 2:02 PM
4 Comments:
Cause Dragonlance sucks? Sure, not to the extent of Lord of the Rings but it is still pretty rough to sit through. Not much in the way of fantasy fiction that I can stomach, though, so I could be way off since many people love both of the series with a terrifying passion.
Still, a Transformers live action movie? That's just stupid. I doubt they'll be very 'more than meets the eye'.
Whoa. Dude totally stole my name. Freaky.
Good thing he didn't steal my opinions, too. At least not entirely.
I'm thinking someone needs to use a K at the end of their name and someone else needs to use an MH.
That may clear up some of the confusion.
And maybe it was just me that thought the the LotR books blew. I still read Dragonlance books to this day so I'm biased towards them.
Great. Now I feel like I'm back in New Bremen. And no, it's not just you. The Lord of the Rings books blow. Poorly.
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