[Evisse the Blue]

<B>The Jackson Dilemma</B><P>It's useless, there are two opposite viewpoints here that will never ever reach an understanding or even a common ground of criticising/defending. <P>Even though I'm in the criticising camp, I won't go back to bashing, I'd rather raise an issue that caught my attention while reading this last page:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> the movies might have flopped, and there likely would have been two results. No one would touch the LotR as movie material for years or decades down the road, possibly never. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>So, do you think that if the movies had flopped - and as we can plainly see, for some they did; the directors would refrain from taking on the dropped challenge? I think not. They would take it as an incentive to prove that their vision on LOTR would fare better. <P>Now - as the majority acclaim Jackson's version as the best movie ever made, the directors are likely to back off from making another adaptation of LOTR, as they feel it wouldn't measure up to this one. So, if anything, it will inhibit creativity and prohibit a new vision of Tolkien's work. That's how I see it. And of course, the new Tolkienites converted to the books after watching the movies will forever confuse and mix lines /scenes added by Jackson with the original ones, thus frustrating themselves and everyone else in the process. I've seen it happen, even on the Downs. <P>So there.