{"id":1580,"date":"2012-01-26T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2013-11-26T17:38:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T09:38:04","slug":"modest-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/modest-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why LOTR Sucks: A Modest Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sitting here watching Frodo and Sam talking about going home, as if the movie is over at barely over an hour in, I am reminded of my idea for fixing the movies (besides going back in time and killing Peter Jackson&#8217;s grandfather). Instead of three movies, they should have been six. Then they would have been able to fit in all the important parts of the book, and we wouldn&#8217;t be stuck with so many fucking montages. We could have ended movie one right here, and we wouldn&#8217;t have had to cut out Tom Bombadil and all the other parts that would have been worthwhile to see. Seeing as how much money they made, I&#8217;m sure New Line would have loved to have doubled their income.<\/p>\n<p>The fact they divided the Hobbit into two movies gives me hope.<\/p>\n<p>Btw, we had a close up of a weepy Frodo being reunited with Bilbo. I wouldn&#8217;t say that I saw tears, but it was definitely in slow motion. I&#8217;m going to count that as close enough.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes Watched: 1:29.48<\/p>\n<p>Number of Montages: 4<\/p>\n<p>Number of slow motion close-ups of people crying: 2<\/p>\n<p>Start at the <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/fun\/\">beginning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sitting here watching Frodo and Sam talking about going home, as if the movie is over at barely over an hour in, I am reminded of my idea for fixing the movies (besides going back in time and killing Peter Jackson&#8217;s grandfather). Instead of three movies, they should have been six. Then they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1731,1728,1736,120,1766,1712,1764,1232,1765],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-bilbo-baggins","tag-fellowship-of-the-ring","tag-frodo-baggins","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-new-line","tag-peter-jackson","tag-the-grandfather-paradox","tag-the-hobbit","tag-tom-bombadil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2980,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/2980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}