"I'm sure Tolkien might have probably turned in his grave, but it was in keeping with the vision that Pete had for Legolas and stuff which, you know, was very important."
Orlando Bloom
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Movie directors are more concerned with doing their best to make what they think are good movies than with remaining perfectly faithful to some source material or another. What a shock.
I'm tempted to ask why the hell it should be otherwise, but, well, some litetal-minded dolt might answer the question.
I'm sure that skateboarding elves who indulge in poorly-rendered "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" oliphaunt hi-jackings and looking like Sophie Aldred on a bad day are exactly what J R R would've wanted.
I guess what ultimately irritated me most about the movie was how it was stereotyped so horribly by modern D&D. I mean, D&D was supposed to be influenced by LotR, not the other way around.
No, the "Dungeons and Dragons" movie didn't have the budget to do the height-wrangling mojo that Peter Jackson worked, and John Rhys-Davies is a big fella, not dwarfish at all. Elwood, who I think was the dwarf character (I'm guessing here), was played by Lee Arenberg.
Sorry for posting that three times...it's not that I thought it was that clever of a comment, it's jsut that I got overly happy with the browser button.
10 comments:
Movie directors are more concerned with doing their best to make what they think are good movies than with remaining perfectly faithful to some source material or another. What a shock.
I'm tempted to ask why the hell it should be otherwise, but, well, some litetal-minded dolt might answer the question.
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Phil Masters
The quote amused me. No particular significance beyond that.
I'm sure that skateboarding elves who indulge in poorly-rendered "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" oliphaunt hi-jackings and looking like Sophie Aldred on a bad day are exactly what J R R would've wanted.
I guess what ultimately irritated me most about the movie was how it was stereotyped so horribly by modern D&D. I mean, D&D was supposed to be influenced by LotR, not the other way around.
Did Davies play the Dwarf in that Horrible D&D movie...I could have sworn that he and Gimli were the same character.
No, the "Dungeons and Dragons" movie didn't have the budget to do the height-wrangling mojo that Peter Jackson worked, and John Rhys-Davies is a big fella, not dwarfish at all. Elwood, who I think was the dwarf character (I'm guessing here), was played by Lee Arenberg.
Sorry for posting that three times...it's not that I thought it was that clever of a comment, it's jsut that I got overly happy with the browser button.
Ps. I realize it was two different actors. I was just making a futile attempt at cleverness.
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