Interview with Peter Jackson on LoTR Bloopers

erth writes "Newsweek has an interview with Peter Jackson asking him what he thinks about some of the most famous and/or obvious bloopers in the LoTR series. Moviemistakes.com has more Fellowhip of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King bloopers as well for your snickering pleasure." I just wanted to give my props to Jackson and all- we took off early yesterday to see the final film. It was everything I hoped for... except for the bits that I expect I'll have to wait for the extended edition DVD to see. And I was to busy grinning ear to ear to notice any serious bloopers.

Joke in Topic!

[Talrias]

Moviemistakes.com has more Fellowhip of the Ring That's gotta be a deliberate mistake.

The geeks that clapped during the movie/review:

[adzoox]

My /. journal entry from last night:

So, here's my review of The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (combined with the review of Fellowship Of The Ring and The Two Towers)

The reviews in order are:

Crap, Crap Squared, Crap Cubed

Anything to me is believeable in Star Wars, because it is set in a technologically, spiritually, metaphysically, geographically distant time/setting. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy however is suppose to set on what seems like Earth (albeit mixed with fantasy). (Can anyone confirm that Middle Earth is SUPPOSE to be our ficticious past?)

So, the thing that ruins the whole trilogy is the fact that the whole trilogy is unneccesary. Why couldn't Gandalf hop on a Nuclear radiated giant eagle - fly over the top of "Mount Incinerator" and drop the ring? Poof, end of story. The people of Rohan and Gondor would've been much happier!

Ain't It Cool News, a review and movie gossip website, rated this the "ending of a trilogy that surpasses Star Wars and raises a new bar" - I will have to say that the effects (especially nuclear radiated eliphants were spectacular) - but any movie with a decent budget is going to seem so realistic you feel like it's real nowadays.

The only good thing about this movie was that I got to see the "Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow" Preview. That movie looks amazing. Even in the preview, a giant robot steps on a senior citizen. I've always liked Conan O'Brien's joke about the #1 nightmare of adults 65 and older is robots killing them in their sleep.

And what's up with clapping during the show

all 3 movies are bloopers

[Anonymous Coward]

it is obvious to anyone who read the books

Speaking of bloopers

[Megor1]

Is this not a dupe!

Bye bye

[Anonymous Coward]

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That didn't last long, now did it?

Not necessarily a blooper...

[tmhsiao]

Pretty much all of the children of Rohan and Gondor and the Shire look like the offspring Peter Jackson.

Coincidence, OR FATE!???

The Book

[Sir Pallas]

I'm pretty sure that the book has far fewer mistakes, as far as Tolkien could be concerned, so just go read that. I'm doing just fine with paper and ink.

Re:w00t!!!!

[tmhsiao]

Didn't you see the text scroll on the screen saying "If you want to know what happens, read the book"? :)

Actually, when I saw it last night, the movie cut out right when Aragorn faced off against a troll in front of the Black Gate. After about 20 minutes and a theater employee apologizing, it came back on.

msnbc blooper

[Anonymous Coward]

unless i'm mistaken, the picture accompanying the article is of a regular orc, not an uruk-hai. (the caption reads 'Why are tough Uruk-hai KO'd by mere rocks?')

wow, i'm a nerd.

Re:Slashdotted Already

[IthnkImParanoid]

Fitting punishment for their heresy. We all know there can be no "flaws" in these holy movies. The silencing of this instigator is a victory for Truth and Justice everywhere.

Re:Not necessarily a blooper...

[Dr. Evil]

Coincidence.

They were really fathered by that belching wretch in Bree.

dupe dupe dupe

[Frac]

Can we have an interview with CmdrTaco on Slashdot Bloopers? Same format - list out all the dupes on slashdot in the past 5-6 years, and give Rob a good way to tell us why he doesn't read his own website. ;-)

silly taco

[cloudship_tacitus]

And I was to busy grinning ear to ear to notice any serious bloopers.

and apparently too busy to edit your comment.

:) i kid because i love.

Re:It's "TOO"...

[the Man in Black]

props n. colloq. -- Props is a shortening of propers, itself a colloquialism implying "proper respect". Originated in African-American vernacular (Early 90s). No longer a part of the vernacular, as African-Americans stop using slang as soon as we hear white people using it. Ex. You get mad props for that.

Re:The geeks that clapped during the movie/review:

[meta-monkey]

Frink: Yes, over here, m-hay, m-haven... in episode BF12, you were battling Barbarians while riding a winged apoluser yet in the very next scene my dear, you're clearly atop a winged arabian! Please do explain it!
Lucy Lawless: Uh, yeah, well whenever you notice something like that.. a wizard did it!
Frink: Yes, alright, yes, in episode AG04..
Lucy Lawless: Wizard!
Frink: Oh for glaven out loud..

Re:Joke in Topic!

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

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MySQL Mistake #8: Failure to close connections properly will bite you in the ass during a Slashdotting.

Does this count as a blooper?

[Anonymous Coward]

When Aragorn finds the army of the dead, they look like the ghosts of soldiers. But when they attack Sauron's army at Pellenor Fields/Minas Tirith, they look like radioactive scrubbing bubbles.

Re:Some spoilers here

[Anonymous Coward]

Gandalf would have been even more unable to.

If you read the declarations in english.h, you will discover that "unable" is a boolean. "more unable" doesn't mean anything.

Re:msnbc blooper

[Have Blue]

Tolkien neglected to mention that Middle Earth is covered with large natural deposits of depleted uranium.

All the movie titles

[GQuon]

All the movie titles from one of the spoof trailers:

2001-The Fellowship of the Ring
2002-The Two Towers
2003-The Third One
2004-Episode I - The Hobbit
2005-FotR Special Edition
2006-Book of Lost Tales
2007-Scribbles in Tolkien's Math Book
2008-Dude, Where's my Ring?
2009-What Hobbits Want
2010-Bilbo Brockovich
2011-All the Pretty Hobbits
2012-O, Bilbo, Where art Thou?
2013-Crouching Gollum, Hidden Balrog
2014-Orc by Orcwest

(Lost by my brain, but found again here. [quazack.com])

Re:The geeks that clapped during the movie/review:

[MORTAR_COMBAT!]

Sometimes, you just have to go with the least bad of the available options.

Gee, sounds like a US Presidential election!

Bad director?

[saunabad]

I disagree with that, although I didn't like his LOTR movies either. But some of his older work is more touching, like Meet the Feebles.

Re:The Book

[meta-monkey]

Are you this guy [theonion.com]?

Stupid blooper

[Anonymous Coward]

Blunder No. 3: "When Saruman is talking to Sauron through the palantir, his lips aren't moving."
Jackson: Well, that's because he's engaged in a psychic session. That was deliberate.

Even my 5 year old cousin got that.

Re:Well...

[Tin Foil Hat]

So what now? Call off the Oscars?

Actually, I'd like to see that:

spokesman: "We sincerely regret the cancelation the Oscars Award Ceremony this year. It seems that every movie released since January has sucked rocks. Our conscience finally got to us. Sorry."

Re:Why was the ring important?

[silverbax]

Haven't seen the movie yet, but from the book...

Sauron was dead...except that part of him still existed within the ring...so he wasn't in full physical form where he could forge another ring.

Also, maybe those rings aren't easy to make, maybe he couldn't just have his Orc army go to Wal-Mart for ring parts. This makes sense, since Mordor was considered abandonded for a long time, so Wal-Mart probably moved out...

Also, maybe Sauron's 'Red Eye' form was good for scaring the bajeezus out of hobbits but not so good for making things out of gold and souls....

Re:Blooper?

[GeckoX]

1000+ pages in to kill a mockingbird?
Must have been reading the _really_ big font version then ehh?

RTFBYISC

[Anonymous Coward]

RTFBYISC (Read The Fucking Book You Insensitive Sacreligious Clod!)

Re:Jackson the liar?

[gblues]

I think your sarcasm detector needs new batteries.

Nathan

Re: I just wanted to give my props to Jackson

[catdevnull]

Props is a truncated version of "propers" which comes from "proper respects." First wide use of this (that I know of) is in Aretha Franklin's "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" but I'm sure it's been in the urban vernacular for a bit longer.

Current usage of the term is becoming passe and trite from over-usage, gentrification, and/or trans-ethnic deign and mockery. Ya dig, homey?

The final answer to the Eagle question

[Overly Critical Guy]

People always bring this up. I don't know why it's so hard to figure out.

The standard answer everyone gives is that the Eaglers weren't so concerned with the world of Men, but that answer never flew for me (pardon the pun), because there was more obvious logic to turn to.

Which is more discreet? A flock of HUGE FUCKING EAGLES, or two little Hobbits sneaking into Mordor and dumping it into Mount Doom?

I don't get why people don't think it through. The first thing Sauron would do if a bunch of HUGE FUCKING EAGLES came flying over the borders of Mordor is just send flying Nazghul after them, and probably also strike them down with flaming lava or wind or something. Plus, Sauron would immediately know where the Ring was, what they're trying to do with it, etc. All plans would instantly be revealed before they even really entered Mordor (he'd immediately see a flock of HUGE FUCKING EAGLES coming from Gondor, no doubt).

Meanwhile, two little Hobbits--a little unimportant, insignificant race completely out of Sauron's mind and most everyone else's in Middle-Earth--sneaks into Morder essentially through a backdoor and actually climbs Mount Doom as Sauron's gaze is distracted by Gondor forces.

Having HUGE FUCKING EAGLES flying it there is an incredibly stupid idea. What makes the Hobbit idea great is that it's incredibly stupid, but so stupid that it's out of Sauron's mind, which makes it the best plan of action (what other choice was there?). That's why the story works so well, and how Sam and Frodo actually made it. Nobody even considers or regards Hobbits. They're not an essential race at all in the mythology of Middle-Earth. Orcs and other baddies don't even really care all that much about them, so they're constantly underestimated. Middle-Earth is so concerned with the main controlling races of Men and Orcs and Sauron and Elves, that out of the blue, a couple of creatures of one of the lesser races from some goofy, ignorant place called the Shire sneaks in and drops the ring in the mountain.

The Eagles only come flying in after the Ring is destroyed, and it's safe for them to.

So, no, HUGE FUCKING EAGLES flying in doesn't even work logically.

Re:Joke in Topic!

[mattsucks]

It scales VERY well financially ... for Oracle :-)