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Old 10-22-2014, 03:57 AM   #1
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I think this is what Baudrillard called Pure Simulation.
And it's also what PJ would call Pure Silmarillion. (Let's hope we never see that day...)
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Old 10-23-2014, 11:58 PM   #2
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I see the new one is bearing the tagline 'The Defining Chapter.'

What were the other chapters then? Indefinite?
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Old 10-24-2014, 01:48 AM   #3
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I see the new one is bearing the tagline 'The Defining Chapter.'

What were the other chapters then? Indefinite?
They sure felt nearly indefinite.
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Old 10-24-2014, 06:35 AM   #4
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I see the new one is bearing the tagline 'The Defining Chapter.'
Ah, so they finally admit that they're really going at a rate of a chapter a film.
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Old 10-26-2014, 12:16 PM   #5
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Ah, so they finally admit that they're really going at a rate of a chapter a film.
I can imagine in another world, there's a Peter Jackson who is mad enough to make a three-hour movie out of each of The Hobbit's 19 chapters.
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