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CUS · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:33

After months of speculation, it's finally been confirmed! Two more movies, prequels to the Lord of the Rings movies, are to come.

Beeb news link

To be directed by the bloke who did Pan's Labyrinth (Who also did Hellboy, an excellent superhero movie), and produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (who did the Lord of the Rings movies together).

Hoorah!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Hoorah!

Also - Hellboy is massively underrated. The sequal should be good too. *crosses fingers*

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

* Chinny sits on the floor and sings about gold.

> Go west

* A troll kills you for no reason. You are dead.

> Fucksocks.

* I'm sorry I don't understand that. You are still dead.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:58

chinnyhill10 wrote:

* Chinny sits on the floor and sings about gold.
> Go west
* A troll kills you for no reason. You are dead.
> Fucksocks.
* I'm sorry I don't understand that. You are still dead.

You should totally recreate that on my handy online-text-adventure-thingy-builder.

itsallwater · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 13:08

Quote:

Mini Quest
By Grim...

It's the exit!
You've made it!

THANK GOD! The stick machine saved me.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 13:11

itsallwater wrote:

Quote:

Mini Quest
By Grim...

It's the exit!
You've made it!

THANK GOD! The stick machine saved me.

Hurrah!

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 14:23

*Aragorn: "We'll never make it. There's hundreds of them and at most six or seven of us!"

*Frodo: "Oh no!"

>Run

You run.

>Hit things

You have killed several hundred goblins.

>Run

*Aragorn: "We made it!"

*Frodo: "Hurray!"

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 14:31

itsallwater wrote:

Quote:

Mini Quest
By Grim...

It's the exit!
You've made it!

THANK GOD! The stick machine saved me.

I want a stickmaker. It will solve all my key-getting needs.

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

Two movies? But the Hobbit barely has enough actual story for one movie, the rest is bollocks.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Quote:

Mimi Quest
By Grim...

It's the Mimi!
And she's brought Monkeh! :munkeh:

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Pundabaya wrote:

Two movies? But the Hobbit barely has enough actual story for one movie, the rest is bollocks.

The first movie is the Hobbit.

The second movie is the time between that book and Lotr.

Yes, I'm scared too.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Or they could go for the UberNerd crowd and do a film of the Silmarillion.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 16:00

Mr Chris wrote:

Or they could go for the UberNerd crowd and do a film of the Silmarillion.

*eyes go wide with wonder*
*places hands to cheeks*
*starts to blart*

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

To be fair, all of the Tolkein stuff is crap. The guy couldn't write to save his own life, he needed an editor with the biggest red pen known to man, and the stories are very overrated.

I enjoyed the movies because they got rid of all his shit, and are in fact the definitive version. And have dwarf-tossing jokes.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 16:10

Pundabaya wrote:

To be fair, all of the Tolkein stuff is crap. The guy couldn't write to save his own life, he needed an editor with the biggest red pen known to man, and the stories are very overrated.

I enjoyed the movies because they got rid of all his shit, and are in fact the definitive version. And have dwarf-tossing jokes.

You're completely wrong, Lord of the Rings is in fact very readable and well written - though there's a few too many bad poems in it. And the Simarillion is near impenetrable. Still prefer friendly-rival and criminally largely unknown fantasy man Mervyn Peake though.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 16:14

I read the first two (LOTR) books and got a page or two into ROTK and though 'Oh fuck it, I can't be arsed' and gave up. They were dull.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I sort of enjoyed the books. Sort of.

However, two words for the fanboys:

Tom Bombadil.

Dombadimbodildo. etc.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 16:21

nervouspete wrote:

Still prefer friendly-rival and criminally largely unknown fantasy man Mervyn Peake though.

In what odd world are his works unknown? (Though I'll grant you his name is less well known).

Also, Tom Bombabastardildo needs to be erased from history, somehow.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 16:21

Mr Chris wrote:

I sort of enjoyed the books. Sort of.

However, two words for the fanboys:

Tom Bombadil.

Dombadimbodildo. etc.

Agreed, I understand what Tolkien was trying to do there - but God was that a stupid character. And annoying. Oddly funny-cutesy in the MMO, though. The first half of Fellowship is the weakest by far, as he's unable to decide on if it's a children's book or not ultimately.

Not the be all and end all of fantasy, by any means. Still, I wish people would stop ripping him off and give us some inventive new stuff for once.

pupil · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 18:25

nervouspete wrote:

Still prefer friendly-rival and criminally largely unknown fantasy man Mervyn Peake though.

You're fast becoming my favourite person ever, Pete! The first two Gormenghast books are absolutelyridiculouslyincredibly good! Unlike many, I really loved the BBC adaptation too.

Stuart Ashen · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 124

Grim... wrote:

online-text-adventure-thingy-builder.

Hmmm. I think it's about time you posted a list of excellent things you've made, Sir, as I was somehow unaware of that site.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:13

Erm, millions of stuff, TBH. I'm not entirely sure where to start.

SteONorDar · **Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:48

You are all wrong. Tolkien is better than anyone, ever, except perhaps J Nash. And not even slightly dull.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:52

I love Steve Of the Darkness of the North Pandas.

Tam · **Joined:** 25th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 159

He's Steve of the Darkness of the North Geese, he is.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Grim... wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

* Chinny sits on the floor and sings about gold.
> Go west
* A troll kills you for no reason. You are dead.
> Fucksocks.
* I'm sorry I don't understand that. You are still dead.

You should totally recreate that on my handy online-text-adventure-thingy-builder.

And so I have.

Play Alansquest:

http://www.hsmx.com/cyoa/playad.php?id=97&new=1

Something I knocked up in 5 minutes. There's only 3 rooms but I feel it has everything that the traditional Level 9 adventures had. Instant death mainly.

tezmc · **Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2008 16:34

pupil wrote:

nervouspete wrote:

Still prefer friendly-rival and criminally largely unknown fantasy man Mervyn Peake though.

You're fast becoming my favourite person ever, Pete! The first two Gormenghast books are absolutelyridiculouslyincredibly good! Unlike many, I really loved the BBC adaptation too.

Another wave of the Peake fan flag here too.

Coincidentally, I was looking at his self portrait in the National Gallery yesterday. It is peculiar.

CUS · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 23:06

The Hollywood Reporter wrote:

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play video game icon and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell in Atari.

Bushnell was an engineering student, puzzle-lover and game enthusiast (chess, Go, early computer games) who went from fixing broken pinball machines to launching Atari Corp., a video game manufacturer, in the early '70s. Its first product was a little game called Pong that transfixed kids in suburban rec rooms across the country and led to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of video game sales. Within a few years, he sold the company to Warner Communications for $28 million.

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