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The Hunt For Gollum - 40 Min. Fan-Made Movie
Shades:
Yes, is the meh for the links or for the movie effort?
40hz:
Meh. :-\
-40hz (May 03, 2009, 04:10 PM)
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Care to elaborate hertz man?
Ehtyar.
-Ehtyar (May 03, 2009, 05:56 PM)
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Sorry E. Just me being crotchety. :)
Visuals were nice, and bits of it were good, but I just didn't care for it overall. I felt the screenplay was lacking, even if the CG work was impressive. Amazing length for a fan piece however! Most of these things only run about 3 minutes.
On a positive note, these folks didn't mangle any elements in the original story. Which is more than I can say for Walsh, Boyens, and Jackson. (I'm still irked by what they did to several key plot points and story elements in the New Line Cinema release - and I don't buy their reasons for why they believed such changes were necessary. >:( )
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P.S. This link seems to work just fine: http://www.dailymotion.com/huntforgollum
This HD link works:
http://www.dailymotion.com/user/huntforgollum/video/x93zji_the-hunt-for-gollum-hd-version_shortfilms
If you're using Firefox, Download Helper and FlashGot add-ons also seem to work with this link if you wanted to grab all 289MBs of it.
wraith808:
Nicely done... much better than I thought, and much better than most fan efforts.
Ehtyar:
Don't know how you managed top get your hands on the 1280x720 version Hertz Man, but congrats. I got ahold of the 512x384 version here.
I also was very pleased with the story. I thought everything except the sound was excellent, for what it was. I didn't go into expecting it to be of LOTR proportions, but I'm certainly glad to have seen it. The sound really needs to be normalized, it hurt my ears in parts, and I wanted it to be louder than max in others.
Don't worry about being crotchety Hertz Man, we all have those days :)
Ehtyar.
f0dder:
On a positive note, these folks didn't mangle any elements in the original story. Which is more than I can say for Walsh, Boyens, and Jackson. (I'm still irked by what they did to several key plot points and story elements in the New Line Cinema release - and I don't buy their reasons for why they believed such changes were necessary. >:( )-40hz (May 03, 2009, 09:41 PM)
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Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way - people usually try to tell me off with "a movie adaptation can't follow the book by the letter", "you're just grumpy" et cetera. Well, sure, I didn't expect a by-the-letter adaptation (duh!), but some of the changes are just... reason enough to plant an axe somewhere fleshy.
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