Hobbit Trailer looks crap

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Well, I’ve said this before: people often rail against CGI and special effects in general, but they can be a very good tool if used properly. It’s when the effects become the point of the film that you run into trouble.

Also, even with all the advances of modern computer graphics, there are still some things that are better done as live action– I think studios can be a bit prone to kidding themselves about how realistic some of the work they produce looks.

Moviemakers seem to commonly forget that in order to tell a story people have to be at the heart of it. An endless string of flash and gimmicks may sparkle and amuse...briefly, but it is not a story.

Stories are what hook people to invest themselves in them. Sparkle and flash by themselves cannot do that because by themselves they really aren't much of anything.

Just thinking about it: the LotR in six seasons (one season per book) where one season would be ten times one hour episodes!

And we would have the added bonus of not having to worry about what will happen when the series catches up to and then passes the author in telling the story.