Favourite Peter Jackson film.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

Everyone loves Peter Jackson, or do they?

They don't

Oh dear, why is that?

Because of "Lord of the Rings" I imagine

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

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.

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

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

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."

Because of "Lord of the Rings" I imagine

Bing-fucking-go.

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

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.

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.

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

But man, that elephant. That was seriously cool.

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

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.

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.

close call between Heavenly Creatures and Dead Alive.

"Hyperactive..."

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

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

sorry, peter jackson is obviously slender and toned.

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

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

And it's Tin Tin next!

you know who else is fat? Michael Moore.

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

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.

"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.

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

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.

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

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

"comparable to Lucas at his best"

The LoToR films are all great, U R TEH GEAY

I mean LoToR RoXoR. obv.

Lord of the O-Rings?

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.

FACT: Pirates Trilogy > LOTR Trilogy.

Seconded.

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.

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.

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

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

abbott, dead alive is "braindead"

I vote Heavenly Creatures.

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

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).

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.

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

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.

ape, tuomas.

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

KK sucked. LOTR is not aging well.

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.

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.

I thought Forgotten Silver was amusing enough.

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.

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.

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

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

?!

Can I just vote for Viggo Mortenson?

Oh baby. Viggo. Yes.

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.

? 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?

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!)

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.

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.

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?

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.

"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 quy that qfted

that one guy with a quiff?

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

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

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.

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

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

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