The Hobbit Countdown Begins!

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey trailer that was released in December. Looks like some fantastic stuff is coming our way. Peter Jackson is already stoking the anticipation fires on The Official Hobbit Facebook page with some great video documentaries about the filming process.


https://www.facebook.com/TheHobbitMovie

Like Garth said... "makes me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class."

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Story by Patrick Fenton

BIO: Chris Luckett

Chris Luckett has been obsessed with movies for over a decade. An avid reader as a child, he discovered in his teenage years the power movies held that the written word did not. Growing up, his father’s rule of “you can’t see the movie ‘til you read the book” shaped him into the comparative critic he now is. He often still reads the source material before seeing the filmed version, which is what got him interested in writing a blog about adaptations. He also holds the practically heretic view that some movies are better than the books they’re based upon. In his spare time, Chris writes film reviews and continually builds his DVD collection, while studying Journalism at Mohawk College.

Email: christopher.luckett@mohawkcollege.ca

Personal blog: http://the-apple-box.blogspot.com

Casey Wren is a 20-year-old journalism student. All her life, Casey has enjoyed books. Starting with the Cat in the Hat, she has worked her way up over the years to books like the Princess Bride and, her current favourite, the Harry Potter series. While she was happy with how the movie versions of those turned out, it’s not always the case. Though it was a required reading for a grade 12 assignment, she thoroughly enjoyed the Lovely Bones novel. The movie, however, sorely disappointed her, a fact she was eager to share with her class and, indeed, anyone who would listen. Now, Casey is enthusiastically sharing her opinions online on a subject that has long entertained her.

BIO - DAVID TABRON

 

David Tabron is a university graduate (Classical Languages and Literature) and aspiring journalist attending Mohawk College whose passion for film is matched only by his passion for literature. Throughout the course of his undergrad at McMaster University, he has taken several courses in both theatre and film and comparative literature. He even managed to merge his interests in classics and cinema in a particular program, “ancient history in film”. However, he possesses a great deal of disdain for a lack of research on the filmmakers’ part, and vehemently scolds Hollywood’s botched renditions of the ancient world. David would easily be won over and would welcomingly invite a complete stranger who approached him to talk of either films or books; he feels that a person’s interest in either of these topics says a lot about who they are. Though he regards ambition as a dangerous, fickle entity, his main priority is to become Canada’s most consistently controversial journalist, and the fact that he drinks much more often than he writes is an indicator that he may be well on his way to achieving this goal.

For questions or discussions on films, literature, or some thought-provoking barroom conversation wholly absent of religious or political topics, David Tabron can be reached at d_tab112@hotmail.com.

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            Patrick Fenton has always been a reader. Currently attending Mohawk College and Netflix University; his love of books often finds him on a collision course with filthy studio executives. Time and time again he reads a great book, pays twenty dollars for popcorn and fifteen for a movie ticket only to find the filmmakers have managed to take an imaginative book and ripped its heart out while dancing on a pile of money. Books are the highest form of mass communication, and it can be disheartening to know that a whole generation of dumb young people will only see a director’s muddled view of a book rather than the real McCoy. Timeline will always standout as one of the worst adaptations of all time; while Lord of the Rings is not only the greatest adaptation but the best book ever written as well. The only book that is more read in the world is the bible, and not many people actually read that. As far as adaptations go perhaps it’s best to look to the video game genre, after all nobody expects a word for word adaption of them. The Super Mario Bros. movie set the bar so low nobody tried again for years. It’s not that all books perverted into film are terrible, just most of them. You like his dim view on book adaptations? You should hear his opinion on blogs.

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