look at this, who will spend so much money on that?

[germanNiklas]

lol
found something great

http://www.happytoys.de/shop_thema2.php3?mc=HZ&idThema=23

its a german site and u can buy lord of the rings stuff
man costs so much (sorry all in EURO)

http://www.happytoys.de/shop_thema2.php3?cvid=FZx9rYHsQQizHhXz6DkUjbjdrWkv Ue10&idThema=23&idArtikelArt=14&offset=18

look at the platinum ring
1500 euro which are 1000 POUNDS

man u have to be a GEEK and a rich guy to spend money on that

a BILBO pipe costs 200 euros....

[Bigjakkstaffa]

An even better question, who in their right minds would pay any amount of money, no matter how small to go and watch the darned terrible films. LOTR 2 was the only thing to save The Matrix: Reloaded from winning my personal 'worst new release of 2003' award

The DVD's out soon...yippie, now you can induce a coma from the comfort of your own sofa instead of in a cinema surrounded by fat sweaty bearded blokes who look at you funny whenever you moan about the cinematography

--Jakk:t

[Cyan]

Have you read the book couch potato?

[Bigjakkstaffa]

I read The Hobbit as a child and it was a fantastic book, i started reading LOTR a couple of years back and got about 75 pages into it before falling into a coma, an absoloutley terrible book as far as im concerned, but then again Fantasy never has been my thing, and its still a logn way off the sheer drivel that is Savant by James Follet which is truly the worst thing i have ever read. Give me something like All Quiet On The Western Front or Survivor but fantasy... the only more over-rated thing i can think of than LOTR is just about every Shakespeare play i've read (except the excellent Henry V).

As for the couch potato remark, just because i watch a lot fo films (about one a day) and actually know a good movie when i see one, dont mean i cant read, or appreciate good literature, heck what with being an Englis Lit. student its kind of a prerequisite.

--Jakk:t

[20Michelle01]

2 much money, if you ask me. i'd rather spend my money on clothes or, better yet, comps.

@~20Michelle01~@

[herosrest]

Originally posted by Cyan
Have you read the book couch potato?


It is a great story from about page 76 on.
Terrific to take on hols for the travel and quiet times on the beach lol. :eek:

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Loada bierdy **** )-|... my dad has bookshelves full of that sorta of dung.

If your off on your holzibobs you want something nice and easy going like a Clancy, Deighton or Forsythe. Then when you get back home you can tuck into something with a bit more susbtance like Fight Club, The Trial or Crime and Punishment (believe me the last one is NOT light reading)

--Jakk:t

[gibsinep]

just because i watch a lot fo films (about one a day) and actually know a good movie when i see one,

Are you suggesting you are the all knowing god of movies and becuase you don't like the film, it is terrible? :rolleyes:


I have read the books and enjoyed the movies so far,just my opinion and I claim to be no expert as you do.



:p

[mireland]

so far I have enjoyed the first two films. can't wait for the third one. I have never read the books..

here is a new smiley for your enjoyment:http://www.fancysplace.com/smileys/choir.gif

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Nope, but if youve seen one special effects laden big budget pop-corn film thats about as deep as a puddle you've seen em all.

It probably wouldnt have grated on me so much had the cinematographer not tried his hardest to turn the darn thing into a nature/wildlife moviewith all his complex pans and eye popping ariel shots of....grass...and hills.... if i wanted to spend three hours looking at hills i would go for a drive around the North York Moors not go to the movies. In fact, if they had removed all the wildlife shots and cut down the ridiculous names such as 'Trogdoor-powerpants King of the outer kindom of the under wear realm' to simple stuff like Pete or Dave, then the running time would probably have dropped from three hours to about five minutes :p

In all fairness it wasnt an appalingly bad movie by todays standards... though todays standards arent exactly what you would call high, substance is out the window and CG is in.

Another interesting point i found is that most of the fans of the movie i come across have never actually read the book, in fact the majority of them look as though they dont have the intellectual ability to read a bus timetable never mind a novel

--Jakk:t

[mireland]

I have the ability to read..I STILL liked the first two movies and am STILL looking forward to the third one..:D

[Cyan]

By your own admission Jack YOU didn't read the book, I guess the bus schedule is also above your level.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

I read its great prequel and tried to read the sequal but got bogged down in it ****-ness and besides i had more interesting and entertaining things to do, there was some paint drying i needed to watch. As for the bus timetable statement that was exclusive to ANY kind of novel, not just the LOTR drivel )-|

--Jakk:t

[cwin]

The LOTR moveis were OK, IMO - but i wouldnt buy them (my dad did anyways :mad: )

I find all the JRR Tolkain books boring, simply because he spends too long explaining one point, that, in some cases, has no relevance to anything. Like explaining the details of a tree for a whole paragraph, yet nobody even looked at the tree. This type of explaining just dosent hold me, its too slow, and i end up putting down the book. I dont fancy fantasy stuff really. Of course this is just IMO.
:D
I tried reading the hobbit and couldnt read for more than 10 mins without actually falling asleep. I slowly, over about a year, got to the "Out of the frying pan and into the fire" then gave up. LOTR, it was only a page before i put down the book
:t

[Bigjakkstaffa]

My dad bought the first LOTR film... i was most dissapointed in him :(

--Jakk:t

[cwin]

It was the **** 4 disc set my dad got:eek:

[Cyan]

Anyway, the only book I've never been able to read (but I did get pretty far (1/4ths)) was by Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

I read LOTR in two weeks (whole series) I'm currently on Enders Game series (read first two in two days each) and just finished the 'His Dark Materials' series (**** good books) in 5 days flat, that’s (about) 2 days for the first two books and a day and a half for the other.

For more good reading, check out Cold Mountain, Jakk, I think even YOU might like that one.

What book represents my life best? Catcher in the Rye :rolleyes:

Chill dog.

[j.m@talk]

I spent £35.00 on a balloon once

No not a big one

small in a box & it kinda jumped out when ya opend the box :(




It was a romantic jesture :rolleyes:



OK silly me :-@

[cwin]

errr-- JM, i suggest a visit to the psyciatric ward in the hospital ;)

£35 on a small balloon! That kinda pops out a box!
:rolleyes:

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Reading back my original mini-review of LOTR from all those months ago actually, it would seem that i wasnt as massively irritated by the film story as i was in the book, but the biggest gripe was the cinematography and the actual film making process.

Someone at a film forum i infrequently glance at actually excalimed that Peter Jackson was a better film maker than Orson Welles...lets just say that remark didnt go down to well. Someone actually compared Jackson to Ed Wood....which is unfair on Jackson to say the least.

My dads into Enders Game, its probably on the bookshelf next to me atm, he's into sci-fi and fantasy and i will admit to occasionally nicking stuff from his sci-fi collection, Blade Runner by Phillip K Dick in paticular is excellent, massively different from the film and in many ways superior, which is some feat given the pedigree of the movie, also for no-brainer Sci-Fi fun you cant beat an Alan Dean Foster 'book of the film' yes they may follow the films a little too closely but in many cases the books are actually more enjoyable than the films in question, which usually arent bad to start with (i paticularly like the alien trilogy novels he wrote).

William Styron's 'The Long March' is an excellent read for an hour or so, its only about 80 pages, but still excellent and goes quite well before something liek All Quiet On The Western Front (Which IMO isnt as great as has been made out...very good, but not great).

Michal Crichton and Frederick Forsythe are good no-brainer action/adventure that actually require a bit of thinking, paticularly in Chrichtons more science based fiction such as The Andromeda Strain, and Forythe's 'Fourth Protocol'.

Most recently however, following seeing the film 'Fight Club', i had to read some of Chuck Palahniuk's work. I ordered Fight Club and Survivor on the same day, all 210 pages of fight club were finished on the day of delivery and survivor was polished off in another three days. His work is quite simply a fantastic satirical stab at 'modern life' and in Survivor the role of Religion and the hypocrisy inherint in it, in modern society and in general does an excellent job of deconstructing society and those who live within its norms down to the shallow shambles it is. Though Fight Club is only significantly different in plot from the film in one or two areas, it somehow manages to evelvate itself far above what was an admittedly excellent movie

--Jakk:t