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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 12, 2012 16:04:36 GMT
Have just watched the Air New Zealand safety briefing film: it should certainly get the Oscar for the best re-use of a classic line - 'Fly you fools!.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 12, 2012 20:36:25 GMT
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 13, 2012 9:20:18 GMT
Yes, mostly bizarre. But some good sense of humour there. Still not going to pay 30 euros to see 3 hobbit films though.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 13, 2012 16:40:58 GMT
Huh?
30 euros? Air Kiwi charges that for their inflight films?
I thought the video to be merely 'cute'. Swimmer and her brood thought it 'inspired', but then, they are practically full-blown members of the Orthodox Church of the Shire.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 13, 2012 16:59:29 GMT
I mean the cost of three cinema tickets to see the three Hobbit films that Peter Jackson is making. After what he did to LOTR I'm not inclined to pay him so much to see the Hobbit wrecked. And considering DG and I would have to go together that would actually be 60 euro forked out.
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Post by Mari on Nov 13, 2012 21:52:19 GMT
Yes, it's too much for my liking as well. You probably have to pay extra too for it being long or whatever they can think of.
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Post by Sarah W. on Nov 14, 2012 4:47:55 GMT
Our local Sci-Fi group is going in costume to the premier.
There are no female characters in The Hobbit. I'm thinking of going as a dwarf. Is that too strange? Other option is being a hobbit lass who isn't mentioned in the book.
I also had a vague idea of dressing up as the Arkenstone. But I'm not sure if I could pull it off. I don't like dressing ostentatiously.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 14, 2012 10:35:38 GMT
According to the OneRingNet (source of All Relevant Wisdom) there is going to be at least one named female elf - you could go as her!
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 14, 2012 20:06:33 GMT
Go as a dwarf. According to Terry Pratchett all dwarves have beards, including the females, who are starting to get more fashionable and have hair dos and pointy steel cap boots and such.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 14, 2012 20:06:53 GMT
But don't expect anything good. Did you see what he did with LOTR?
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Post by Sarah W. on Nov 15, 2012 2:02:46 GMT
According to the OneRingNet (source of All Relevant Wisdom) there is going to be at least one named female elf - you could go as her! I can't be an elf (much less Galadriel). I haven't the body type. (Then again, have I the body type for a dwarf? I'm a bit ... female.)
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Post by Sarah W. on Nov 15, 2012 2:04:25 GMT
Go as a dwarf. According to Terry Pratchett all dwarves have beards, including the females, who are starting to get more fashionable and have hair dos and pointy steel cap boots and such. Argh! Don't mention that book! It's more than a month overdue at the library and I've looked everywhere for it. I even cleaned my room.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 15, 2012 14:05:49 GMT
That's a pretty serious state of affairs!
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Post by Mari on Nov 15, 2012 17:51:45 GMT
Go as a dwarf. According to Terry Pratchett all dwarves have beards, including the females, who are starting to get more fashionable and have hair dos and pointy steel cap boots and such. Gimli says this in the films as well to Eowynn (watched it recently).
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 16, 2012 22:03:11 GMT
It is also in the LOTR appendices.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 17, 2012 13:54:17 GMT
I think going as a dwarf is a good idea then. They're far more interesting than the elves anyway. Elves are pretentious and have done more damange to Middle-Earth than anybody else yet they whine about not helping anybody.
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Post by Sarah W. on Nov 17, 2012 18:23:54 GMT
So, if I go as a dwarf woman how should I dress? I'll have to think about this. And find a decent fake beard.
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Post by tangent on Nov 17, 2012 19:52:40 GMT
So, if I go as a dwarf woman how should I dress? Shrewdly.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 18, 2012 20:35:43 GMT
More shrewdly for you Mr. T than for Sarah?
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Dec 29, 2012 12:07:20 GMT
Just carry a bloody big axe and if anyone suggests that your attire is not quite in character - use it
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Post by Mari on Dec 29, 2012 22:19:13 GMT
+likes the previous post+
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Post by Moose on Dec 29, 2012 22:20:49 GMT
The LOTR films were great!
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Post by Mari on Dec 29, 2012 22:28:57 GMT
they were though gimli being used as comic relief was a bit of a shame. they tookall the depth out of him and his relationship with par ex legolas
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Post by Shake on Jan 3, 2013 1:44:34 GMT
But don't expect anything good. Did you see what he did with LOTR? Actually, I haven't! I know, I know ... you're all like
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Post by whollygoats on Jan 3, 2013 4:49:17 GMT
Don't feel too bad, Shake.
I saw them all, several times now (on DVD), and I still don't know enough to make snarky comments about what the director did wrong or right.
I'm still trying to figure out why they didn't just draft a hobbit to be the ringbearer and snag him one of them eagles to fly them direct to Mount Doom to dispose of the ring forthwith.
I think it's because it wouldn't even have made a decent novella, much less a looong trilogy. It would have been a short story.
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Post by Kye on Jan 3, 2013 13:21:23 GMT
As I recall, the eagles weren't all that keen on getting involved. It wasn't until the very end that they decided to cooperate.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jan 4, 2013 22:02:03 GMT
Plus there were those pesky ring wraiths on their big flying monsters. I don't think the eagles could have beat them. They only lose their captain in the Battle of Pelanor Fields and the rest are still around until Sauron is destroyed. Of course it still doesn't make full sense but it sure would have not been as interesting a story!
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Post by Moose on Jan 4, 2013 22:33:54 GMT
And also, Gandalf didn't even trust HIMSELF with the Ring ... so it would not have been a good idea for an Eagle to have had it on his back, as it were. So, erm there.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 5, 2013 8:40:47 GMT
Maybe it'd have been easier to go and throw it in some other volcano, rather than one next door to the enemy. Even if it didn't destroy it, they'd have one hell of a time getting it back!
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Post by whollygoats on Jan 5, 2013 15:19:17 GMT
And also, Gandalf didn't even trust HIMSELF with the Ring ... so it would not have been a good idea for an Eagle to have had it on his back, as it were. So, erm there. Yet, he entrusted it to a hobbit. I don't see any problem with just placing that hobbit on an eagle and sending them off to Mount Doom. As for the ringwraiths, why would they want to interdict every flying animal in the region? IIRC, Sauron cannot tell where the ring is unless the carrier is wearing it. Sooo...if the ringbearer doesn't put it on and rides the huge giant eagle quietly and without incident, it should have been a 'slam dunk'. The problem, of course, is that it could be done in a couple of chapters. It would have been a short story, instead of a huge trilogy of fantasy novels. It would not give the verbose writer sufficient space to impress his readers with reams of explication of arcane and otherwise tedious verbiage.
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