Perry Twins....The Empire!

[Fighelm]

Uncanny likeness!! 🤣

Me or him. Red doesn't suit me

 

[Brother Meredith]

@ManicMan of course! 😉

 

[Eric]

Come on, they were great FILMS! Am sure if they religiously followed the novels I would have lost interest even before the end of book 2… 😉

never huge fan of the books, when changes are made for adaptations, I try to figure out why they were made. some of the changes made for the film version of Jurassic park (for example) were understandable. others were just awful and I could see no real reason. Others just took what could have been a great film and made is 'good'.. the changes in the second film made it pretty unwatchable.

I'm kinda a 'if you keep to the basic plot and ideas, and the style, you can get way with some more changes'. [SNIP]

I'd say the LoTR films are a very good screenplay based on the novels by and large with the changes working well for the screen. Although it has been some years since I last read LoTR so I dare say my rose-tints might at least be perched on my forehead! The Hobbit on the other hand is a poor screenplay based on the novel where they tried to pad it out beyond the capacity of the story and much as it might have been nice to visually return to Middle Earth the story was let down by that padding. As to the source material much as I love LoTR and Tolkien's dedication to world building and language I seem to recall bits of the actual books dragging on a bit, the chase for Pippin and Merry at the start of the Two Towers I seem to remember went on forever. So in many ways I probably owe him more for laying some of the foundations everyone else built their crazy fantasy worlds on. Anyhow much as a good rant on the good and bad of film adaptations might be I'd best not derail too much more...

So Perry Steam tanks hey? Interesting. Well I guess we knew from subsequent events they had an unhealthy interest in destructive war machines...

 

[Fighelm]

So Perry Steam tanks hey? Interesting. Well I guess we knew from subsequent events they had an unhealthy interest in destructive war machines...

Bringing it back on point, Eric. ... to be fair the little outline sketch I saw makes it look like a steampunk laundry iron. But, yes, a steam tank defined. Was a huge deviation away from, say, the historical based (hussite) Empire warwagon, more into the realm of da vinci's madcap war machines.

 

[Fimm McCool]

Come on, they were great FILMS! Am sure if they religiously followed the novels I would have lost interest even before the end of book 2… 😉

I lost interest in the films before they got to Rivendell. They had such promise, amazing artists, great locations, wonderful music, talented modelmakers... just god awful direction and script writing.