Post by slendermaschine on Jan 16, 2014 4:13:30 GMT -5
So real simple and open concept: How would you change any movie off the top of your head and why? For example, scenes, pacing, camera, lighting, CGI, ect. And feel free, in fact, I'd say go right ahead please and speak your mind on heavier films or "classics" or whatever controversial point irks you or you would do differently. Do you think 12 Years a Slave needed The Spanish Inquisition? Did Movie 43 fail to capture the inequity in our economic state? Do you wish that V for Vendetta had a less stupid looking mask if it was going to spread like influenza? This is your place to say so.
1) Easy - Beowulf: I'd make it live action. Boom, done. Okay, not so fast. I also feel that overall Grendel's art design was just too weird. I couldn't tell what the hell he was supposed to be, like some kind of mutant Troll-Draugr dipped in an acid bath? I didn't like it and I think it could have felt more beastly and feral; something that you could imagine a Nord seeing in the wilderness and transforming into a greater, almost supernatural being of legend and ferocity.
I would also keep it more true to legend; Grendel's mum wouldn't be of all things naked Goldfinger Edition Angelina Jolie with a tail. And the Dragon would still be a battle of epic proportions but again more in line with a dragon's greed and not some insane rebirth or whatever mess it was with Grendel.
2) The Hobbit - No singing. I know that The Hobbit is often said to be a kid's book and yes it has singing, but in a book it's faaar different than a random, musical jaunt about dish washing after at least 35 minutes of too long introduction that fails to actually make us more aware of who the Dwarves are as individuals whatsoever.
Also, I'd ditch the Trolls' cockney, cartoonish accent and go for something more natural and animalistic. The less cartoonish change would also apply to the Goblin King. I think he should first be more green and second less grossly corpulent and more fat in the literal/metaphorical sense that emphasizes greed and wealth. As it was he looked like he spent too much time at the Cinnagobl'n. For cripes sake, Jackson, he's the Goblin King, no the Gobbling King, so make him a fierce threat and not a comical lardass.
Overall I actually enjoyed the first Hobbit more than The Fellowship (although a fair point was Fellowship did what The Hobbit couldn't in regards to introducing everything in the Shire in less than 45 minutes for being a far longer book), I found the fight scenes much less blurry and awful to look at, and I think the biggest change would to make it feel less stretched out with the mindset of a trilogy. I would rather it be long enough to do what it has to and leave us to have fond memories of Middle Earth and the transition towards the original trilogy.
1) Easy - Beowulf: I'd make it live action. Boom, done. Okay, not so fast. I also feel that overall Grendel's art design was just too weird. I couldn't tell what the hell he was supposed to be, like some kind of mutant Troll-Draugr dipped in an acid bath? I didn't like it and I think it could have felt more beastly and feral; something that you could imagine a Nord seeing in the wilderness and transforming into a greater, almost supernatural being of legend and ferocity.
I would also keep it more true to legend; Grendel's mum wouldn't be of all things naked Goldfinger Edition Angelina Jolie with a tail. And the Dragon would still be a battle of epic proportions but again more in line with a dragon's greed and not some insane rebirth or whatever mess it was with Grendel.
2) The Hobbit - No singing. I know that The Hobbit is often said to be a kid's book and yes it has singing, but in a book it's faaar different than a random, musical jaunt about dish washing after at least 35 minutes of too long introduction that fails to actually make us more aware of who the Dwarves are as individuals whatsoever.
Also, I'd ditch the Trolls' cockney, cartoonish accent and go for something more natural and animalistic. The less cartoonish change would also apply to the Goblin King. I think he should first be more green and second less grossly corpulent and more fat in the literal/metaphorical sense that emphasizes greed and wealth. As it was he looked like he spent too much time at the Cinnagobl'n. For cripes sake, Jackson, he's the Goblin King, no the Gobbling King, so make him a fierce threat and not a comical lardass.
Overall I actually enjoyed the first Hobbit more than The Fellowship (although a fair point was Fellowship did what The Hobbit couldn't in regards to introducing everything in the Shire in less than 45 minutes for being a far longer book), I found the fight scenes much less blurry and awful to look at, and I think the biggest change would to make it feel less stretched out with the mindset of a trilogy. I would rather it be long enough to do what it has to and leave us to have fond memories of Middle Earth and the transition towards the original trilogy.