comment #1

Redmond says ...

Lily Allen is 22 and her pregnancy was planned. But you're definitely onto something with the Jamie Lynn/Juno connection. Parents are pissed since their kids are big fans of her Nickelodeon show. Yeah, kids shouldn't be looking to these teeny-boppers for morals, but getting knocked up at 16 shouldn't be presented as a viable option for the average teenager who doesn't have a financial empire built on their older sister's exploitation. (I'm talking 'bout Brit-Brit.)

comment #2

actionman says ...

I am already sick of the Hobbit movies and they haven't even started making them yet!

comment #3

Mr B says ...

I might be excited, being a fan of the books and the first two movies. But the third movie plus King Kong are long winded un-entertaining bores to me. Damn you Jeff, you have made a nonbeliever out of me too!

comment #4

Balerion says ...

I don't know what the Vulture column is talking about. The 60-year-gap that this "sequel" is supposed to bridge has f-all to do with the Silmarillion.

I'm worried by this sequel idea as well, but for other reasons, namely that the only place to fill in the gaps would be the Appendix to LotR ... and while there's a lot of interesting stuff, it's not enough to sustain a film without a great deal of invention from the screewriters. I'm not really interested in seeing what will, essentially, be the cinematic equivalent of fan fiction.

If Tolkien had written a book that bridged the gap, that'd be something else.

comment #5

UnChien says ...

Screw The Hobbit, I want to see the War of Wrath. Men, elves, orcs, balrogs, dragons, 3D, oh my...

comment #6

jeffmcm says ...

Fan fiction is boring, but maybe if it was Frodo/Sam slash fan fiction we'd have something. With a $150m budget.

comment #7

BurmaShave says ...

THE TWO TOWERS and KING KONG belong in any discussion of best films of the decade. You need to get off it Wells.

comment #8

MattyC says ...

Burma:

King Kong.

Best of the Decade.

Really?

comment #9

transmogrifier says ...

I can't believe the backlash that King Kong met with upon its release. To my mind, it's a better film than ANY summer film released in the last, say, 5 years. That's not saying a hell of a lot, of course, but I'm always bemused when it regularly gets hauled out and beaten to a pulp by anonymous messageboarders the net over.

comment #10

Meegosh says ...

Bridging the gap of 60 years betweent he books? What the hell is that. Nothing happened in those 60 years, if it did, he would have written about it. Not to mention the fact that the LOTR trilogy mentioned nothing about whatever crap they make up unlike The Hobbit that was referenced many times. Hopefully they come to their senses and just make two movies out of the Hobbit and don't add anything to it. Given that the book was just as long as the other three I would think it would be easy to make two 2 hr long movies instead of one that with the directors cut would probably be 3.5 to 4 hrs long.

comment #11

DavidF says ...

I agree that a "bridging" story seems pointless.
The whole point is that the ring is there but no one knows what it is so there's really nothing to show except The Young Aragorn Chronicles.

And delving into the Silmarilion...well, like the columnist, that gives me shivers. Still, there is so much periperheral Tolkien stuff out there that, given their writing track record, I believe Jackson, Walsh and Boyens will have something worthwhile up their sleeves.

I'm sure money is a factor this time around but let's not forget: New Line are the ones who went with 3 films in the first place when Miramax wanted 1 or 2.

comment #12

BurmaShave says ...

Yes MattyC, if you were to have a discussion about the best films of the decade, and bring into about 25 or 30 films, then KING KONG, for me, would be there.