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Trey wrote:

This just in:  Disney expects 200M loss for John Carter

And whats the current bet that this will affect even one iota of how Disney makes movies?

Ooooh, right.

Well, there's always...

  • Tarzan

  • Tom Swift

  • Arsène Lupin*

  • Bulldog Drummond

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel**

  • miscellaneous Jules Verne

  • miscellaneous H Rider Haggard

  • Kidnapped and its sequel Cantriona

Any of those could probably sustain a blockbuster franchise.

* I fucking love those stories, Brian and Michael, read them or listen to them immediately.

** This would, of course, have to be retitled something like In the Reign of Terror.

EDIT: How appropriate it is that my one-thousand-and-eleventy-first post is in the Lord of the Rings topic....

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I'm turned on looking at how beautifully those listed items stack up.

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EDIT: How appropriate it is that my one-thousand-and-eleventy-first post is in the Lord of the Rings topic....

Behold Zarban Baggins

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^ This.

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Zarban wrote:

Well, there's always...

  • Tarzan

  • Tom Swift

  • Arsène Lupin*

  • Bulldog Drummond

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel**

  • miscellaneous Jules Verne

  • miscellaneous H Rider Haggard

  • Kidnapped and its sequel Cantriona

Any of those could probably sustain a blockbuster franchise.

I would LOVE to see someone do a TV series that rotated through the adventures of the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, Tom Swift Jr, etc. Do them as period pieces. You could also do some of the now forgotten kids series. I have four "Buddy" books by Howard Garis on the shelf next to me that were my Dad's.

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* I fucking love those stories, Brian and Michael, read them or listen to them immediately.

[Expressions of my love for the gutenberg/librivox axis.]

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I don't even know how many commentators. All of them. All of the commentators.

How many more commentators could there be?  The answer is none.  None more commentators.

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I think the last one has twice the commentators. If I recall the fifth mic gets kind of shouty. Sorry in advance.



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Thanks Paul, and thanks for your help. Sous chef supreme and commentator to boot.

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Just getting the ROTK mp3 now. Were there tears?
I can remember people starting to cry in the cinema when Sam carries Frodo up the mountain.
And when Boromir dies. And when Gandalf 'dies'. And when Sam & Frodo give their 'I can see the shire' speech.
And when Aragorn & Arwen get back together during the coronation. And at the Grey Havens.

I haven't seen so many people cry in a movie-theatre since Jar Jar stepped in the poopy.

not long to go now...

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really looking forward to listening to ROTK as I crack on with Dragon VFX work, These have been great so far. I was expecting half a good commentary and then the rest would just be getting drunk and being very silly smile

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I havn't relistened yet, that'll be tomorrows project (Woot for roto being the most mindless thing on the planet!!) but I am reminded of just how solidly you guys held up through the entire thing. Right up through to the last second of RoTK it was solid DiFing.

And obviously huuuge props to Dorkman for carrying all that on for 12 fucking hours. 

I bow to all of you sirs.

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Pretty sure that Legolas wind-up mount I thought existed was a total fabrication.

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Just finished ROTK again. Fuck yeah guys. That was a hell of an awesome thing.

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Honestly, I think Return of the King was my favorite chunk of this.

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Pretty sure that Legolas wind-up mount I thought existed was a total fabrication.

YOU

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I won't tell, if you don't tell my college how hard I fucked up a Shakespeare reference.

(In my defense, I wasn't entirely confident of my own name by that point.)

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At least you didn't start mixing your franchises - 'here's Gandalf and Neo riding into Hogwarts on Aslan just before the Persian army attacks'

not long to go now...

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Loved the ending to this commentary, makes you realize the scope of what you guys accomplished (coming from someone who was unable to make it to the live show, still hating that my birthday was on the same weekend.) Very nicely done, kudos to those of you who went through all twelveish hours.

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At least you didn't start mixing your franchises - 'here's Gandalf and Neo riding into Hogwarts on Aslan just before the Persian army attacks'

...I would watch that movie. I might even watch it several times.

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At least you didn't start mixing your franchises - 'here's Gandalf and Neo riding into Hogwarts on Aslan just before the Persian army attacks'

...I would watch that movie. I might even watch it several times.

I...uh...yep. I'd be right there with ya.

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You give a lot of credit to Billy Boyd inventing "Pippins Song"... well.... can I wave my 20 years experience of music production and claim it sounds quite post-tuned, so, it's quite possible they re-tuned it to match whatever the score needed.

I mean, if I was able to re-tune Neil Armstrong on the effin' MOON, Peter Jackson can re-tune Billy Boyd. smile

Just a thought.

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There's a discussion during ROTK about its epic battle to end all movie epic battles.
Kingdom of Heaven's Battle for Jerusalem, with its siege towers was similar in style.
The other one around the same time was Troy - with its harder 'R' violence in the extended cut.
Avatar's aerial finale was okay.
Phantom Menace's Naboo land battle needed the Yakety Sax cue

But for sheer awesome spectacle, LOTR kicks ass. The second half of ROTK is full of 'money shots' that most epic movies of the 1970s-90s were struggling just to include one of.

not long to go now...

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