Favourite Peter Jackson film.

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Everyone loves Peter Jackson, or do they?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Heavenly Creatures 25
Braindead 21
The Fellowship of the Ring 8
Meet the Feebles 7
The Two Towers 7
The Return of the King 6
Bad Taste 4
The Frighteners 1
Forgotten Silver (co-directed by Costa Botes) 1
King Kong0


Tuomas, Thursday, 31 May 2007 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

Having seen them all, I have to say that the man is truly a great entertainer: he's never made a dull film. Even my least favourite two, Bad Taste and Frighteners, are fun to watch. I'm tempted to vote for Forgotten Silver for it's sheer trickery, but I guess Heavenly Creatures is his one true masterwork.

Tuomas, Thursday, 31 May 2007 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

To clarify for my USA brethren, Braindead = Dead Alive.

John Justen, Thursday, 31 May 2007 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'd like to vote for Heavenly Creatures, as I love the story behind it with the murderous best friends, but I havent seen the film!

Trayce, Thursday, 31 May 2007 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

Braindead is one of my very favourite films, so that.

Just got offed, Thursday, 31 May 2007 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Meet the Feebles should be the official ILX documentary, so that.

Noodle Vague, Thursday, 31 May 2007 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

heavenly creatures. liked braindead, loved LOTR, but that's the best.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 31 May 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone loves Peter Jackson, or do they?

They don't

Tom D., Thursday, 31 May 2007 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear, why is that?

Tuomas, Thursday, 31 May 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Because of "Lord of the Rings" I imagine

Tom D., Thursday, 31 May 2007 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

I went with my head rather than my heart and voted for Heavenly Creatures. I slightly regret not going for Fellowship now.

chap, Thursday, 31 May 2007 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

I though Fellowship was the worst of the LotR films, basically because it was too faithful to the book. What works in a book doesn't necessarily work on film. The two other movies improved upon that.

Tuomas, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

He got terrible after The Frighteners but those first five are awesome. Forgotten Silver is completely underrated.

Alex in SF, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

The Frighteners is a total mess, and I love it.

kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

But I voted for Heavenly Creatures, because it's a really good movie, and Kate Winslet is so deliciously insane.

"All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic."

kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Because of "Lord of the Rings" I imagine

Bing-fucking-go.

libcrypt, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't see King Kong but here's how I rank the rest (the top four are really close--then a small drop off and another small drop off and then a fucking cliff):

Braindead
Meet the Feebles
Heavenly Creatures
Forgotten Silver
Bad Taste
The Frighteners
The Two Towers
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Return of the King

Alex in SF, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Those who hate LotR films - is it because you don't like LotR in general? Because I though they were as good adaptations as it is possible to make in Hollywood and within the limited time of a feature film.

Tuomas, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I like LotR okay, but I don't think the books translated well to film. To be fair to Jackson I don't think anyone else was going to make better versions, but that doesn't mean they aren't garbage.

Alex in SF, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

If it's not the scene where Mr. Bloomps takes down the giant fucking elephant, I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo bored.

kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

But man, that elephant. That was seriously cool.

kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even remember it. All the crappy CGI just blended together for me.

Alex in SF, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Those who hate LotR films - is it because you don't like LotR in general?

It's Tolkien. The cinematography is pretty good from the parts I could manage to make myself watch, but I wouldn't mind if I never heard or read the word, "hobbit", again.

libcrypt, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

peter jackson is an fat asshole that can't write dialogue, has no interest in actor's performances and has a hardon for his own CGI company.

other then that he's ok, i guess.

darraghmac, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

close call between Heavenly Creatures and Dead Alive.

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

"Hyperactive..."

Just got offed, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, fat people are pretty despicable, aren't they?

libcrypt, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

peter jackson is an fat asshole that can't write dialogue, has no interest in actor's performances and has a hardon for his own CGI company.

this sounds SO FAMILIAR

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/mc9/files/luke.jpg

kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, peter jackson is obviously slender and toned.

yeah, peter jackson is the new george lucas. it's been done peter, get over it.

darraghmac, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Give him a break - he's lost a lot of weight!

And it's Tin Tin next!

DavidM, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

you know who else is fat? Michael Moore.

kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

and also, pater jackson HAS lost a lot of weight

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/11/21/peter_jackson_narrowweb__300x460,0.jpg

kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, he even looks like Lucas these days.

Seriously though, childhood nostalgia aside, the LotR trilogy is certainly better than the original Star Wars trilogy. Except that Darth Vader is a much better bad guy - Jackson really failed to make Sauron scary. I know his gaze works better in text and it's hard to put into visuals, but in the movies he looks like a giant fucking spotlight.

Tuomas, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

"Seriously though, childhood nostalgia aside, the LotR trilogy is certainly better than the original Star Wars trilogy."

No way. Seriously, if you think that you know jackshit about pacing.

Alex in SF, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Star Wars' flaws annoy me WAY more than the LotR's (most of which are confined to Return of the King)

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

I mean I'm not the hugest Star Wars fan either, but the one thing you can say about all those films up until at least midway through Jedi is that they don't drag much and that you actually kind of give a shit about what's happening to these people. That's not anything that can be said about the LotR's movies.

Alex in SF, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

the LotR trilogy is certainly better than the original Star Wars trilogy

This is what's called, "damning with faint praise".

libcrypt, Friday, 1 June 2007 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

"comparable to Lucas at his best"

The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

The LoToR films are all great, U R TEH GEAY

The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I mean LoToR RoXoR. obv.

The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Lord of the O-Rings?

libcrypt, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I loved the LOTR films too. They're manipulative schmaltz, but beautifully crafted schmaltz. There's a sense that everybody involved really gave a shit, which is very rare in today's blockbusters.

chap, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

FACT: Pirates Trilogy > LOTR Trilogy.

Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Seconded.

Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

The only good thing in Meet the Feebles was AMBERGRIS. I like LOTR but I'm going with Deal Alive because the beginning was genuinely sweet before it turned into bad Pink Floyd concert props with spatter eyeball custard. Custard does not equal gore, Mr. Jackson.

Abbott, Saturday, 2 June 2007 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

I am also a sucker for manipulative schmaltz. If not a genuine fan than certainly easily manipulated by it. God, those hobbits are such sweet loyal friends, they make me cry every time.

Abbott, Saturday, 2 June 2007 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, he didn't do Dead Alive? Nor even Deal Alive? Me a statue. :P

Abbott, Saturday, 2 June 2007 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

custard does equal gore if your ear has just fallen into it

Just got offed, Saturday, 2 June 2007 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

abbott, dead alive is "braindead"

I vote Heavenly Creatures.

marmotwolof, Saturday, 2 June 2007 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

i'm a derek.. derek's don't run

electricsound, Saturday, 2 June 2007 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

FACT: Pirates Trilogy > LOTR Trilogy.

I kind of love how the world has become divided between people who love Pirates of the Caribbean and people who hate it. Except that I would probably love it more if I was one of the people who loved PotC, because then I wouldn't be some bitter, fun-hating, fat old lady (because fat=bad).

accentmonkey, Saturday, 2 June 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also Heavenly Creatures really is my favourite Peter Jackson film, because no one of the LotR films is great on its own. It's the whole project that's great.

accentmonkey, Saturday, 2 June 2007 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Don't people hate Peter Jackson for King Kong more than LoTR? I do.

Roz, Saturday, 2 June 2007 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

King Kong was kinda overlong, especially the island part, but the monkey itself was wonderful, and the scenes between it and the lady were heartbreaking.

Tuomas, Saturday, 2 June 2007 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

ape, tuomas.

latebloomer, Saturday, 2 June 2007 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

King Kong is the only movie I've ever walked out of

bernard snowy, Saturday, 2 June 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

KK sucked. LOTR is not aging well.

ryan, Saturday, 2 June 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Tough call between The Frighteners, Heavenly Creatures, Forgotten Silver, and the Rings movies. I think The Two Towers is the best of the three, for what it's worth.

P.S. The only movie I ever walked out of was the second Jurassic Park thing. Man, did it suck.

P.P.S. I suspect that a lot (not all) of the LOTR hate is backlash from people who think that anything that's popular can't possibly be "good." Amazing how often those people think "Die Hard" movies and their ilk rock the world.

Hey Jude, Sunday, 3 June 2007 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

I suspect that a lot (not all) of the LOTR hate is backlash from people who think that anything that's popular can't possibly be "good." Amazing how often those people think "Die Hard" movies and their ilk rock the world.

i really don't understand your point- die hard isn't popular?

i'm more confused by how, when the LOTR movies are so patently and obviously bad films, they are so popular. apart from looking the biz, they are excruciating to watch.

darraghmac, Monday, 4 June 2007 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Forgotten Silver was amusing enough.

Tape Store, Monday, 4 June 2007 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

remember the road at the beginning of the frighteners - holloway road? i live on that road!! (wellington, NZ) that's my street sign (although they didn't actually film the scene there, just the road sign).

it's my one sad claim to fame.

Rubyred, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

I love Heavenly Creatures. It makes reading Anne Perry even more fun, knowing she was one of those girls.

The LOTR movies make me wish that Jackson would adapt Bernard Cornwell's Warlord trilogy (his Arthurian books) to film. He's the perfect guy to do it.

Beth Parker, Monday, 4 June 2007 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

New Peter Jackson looks too much like Dominic Monaghan, it is weird.

nickalicious, Monday, 4 June 2007 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

darraghmac, you must have seen the bootleg version of the Rings trilogy.

Hey Jude, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

?!

darraghmac, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Can I just vote for Viggo Mortenson?

nickalicious, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh baby. Viggo. Yes.

Hey Jude, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Y'know, the bootleg version. The one that was all chopped up and had the audio dropping out all over the place and a bunch of crowd sounds in the background.

Probably a cell phone job. With extra batteries. Many many extra batteries.

Hey Jude, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

? saw them all at the cinema. FOTR decent, apart from the butchering of council of elrond.

two towers, not good. butchery (again) of major characters to make them black/white (esp Saruman) Ents were just awful, addition of an entire action sequence with warthogs because PJ afraid we might get bored. the elves were fat, blond, and way too camp.

ROTK pretty good, apart from road of the dead being a load of nonsense.

but all the way throughout the acting and dialogue are just embarrassing. you cannot have missed this, surely?

darraghmac, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't agree with any of that. Also strange to complain onthe one hand about the "butchery" of source material, and on the other about the dialogue (the majority of which was lifted verbatim from the books - entire speeches even!)

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

elves aren't supposed to be blonde? (or camp? how can you have a bunch of self-absorbed effeminite pantywaists NOT come off as camp on some level?) I didn't see any fat elves.

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

the majority of which was lifted verbatim from the books - entire speeches even!)

um, whatever the opposite of otm is.

elves aren't blonde. nor camp. and they are, indeed, all fat in the films. this is why neither yourself nor peter jackson should have attempted LOTR.

oh yeah, another negative Peter Jackson point- orlando bloom, forever.

darraghmac, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

elves aren't blonde. nor camp. and they are, indeed, all fat in the films.

what are you, one of the aliens from Close Encounters?

latebloomer, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone loves Peter Jackson, or do they?

They don't

-- Tom D., Thursday, 31 May 2007 11:59 (6 days ago) Link

qf fuckin' t

jackson fans don't deserve to have eyes.

That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

"childhood nostalgia aside, the LotR trilogy is certainly better than the original Star Wars trilogy."

CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA ASIDE but you still like lord of the rings and star wars.

That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

that one quy that qfted

estela, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

that one guy with a quiff?

darraghmac, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Thursday, 7 June 2007 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I just watched Braindead for the first time in years and I want to change my vote to that.

onimo, Sunday, 24 June 2007 01:07 (eighteen years ago)

best bit, of many great bits: disembodied jawless head being used as unwitting football

Just got offed, Sunday, 24 June 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

I like it when matey shoots a huge fuck-off hole in a zombie, sticks his shotgun through the hole, then cheerfully shoots other zombies through it, using the first zombie as a shield.

chap, Sunday, 24 June 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/district-9/teaser-trailer

(not strictly a Peter Jackson film, but he's producing)

StanM, Saturday, 2 May 2009 08:57 (seventeen years ago)

nine years pass...

Lol at this doof straightfacedly explaining his new movie in the trailer

Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:15 (seven years ago)


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