{"id":1749,"date":"2012-02-07T12:53:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T04:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2013-11-23T14:36:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T06:36:05","slug":"leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/02\/leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Why LOTR Sucks: Leave Well Enough Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What possessed Peter Jackson to think he could write a better story than J.R.R. Tolkien? I suppose he thought he was being cinematic, but there&#8217;s nothing about Frodo sending Sam away that makes it a better story than Tolkien&#8217;s. Just because people are yelling at each other doesn&#8217;t make it dramatic. Having Gollum try to turn Frodo and Sam against each other isn&#8217;t original. It&#8217;s funny to think that an adaptation of a novel could be derivative, but Peter Jackson manages it. He robs from Star Wars. He robs from Shakespeare. He robs from B movies.<\/p>\n<p>I guess he needed an excuse here to fit in some slow motion tears.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes Watched: 3.1:29.10<\/p>\n<p>Number of Montages: 16<\/p>\n<p>Number of slow motion close-ups of people crying: 54<\/p>\n<p>Start at the <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/fun\/\">beginning<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What possessed Peter Jackson to think he could write a better story than J.R.R. Tolkien? I suppose he thought he was being cinematic, but there&#8217;s nothing about Frodo sending Sam away that makes it a better story than Tolkien&#8217;s. Just because people are yelling at each other doesn&#8217;t make it dramatic. Having Gollum try to [&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":[1736,1729,125,120,1712,1740,1842],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-frodo-baggins","tag-gollum","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-peter-jackson","tag-samwise-gamgee","tag-the-return-of-the-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","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=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/2831"}],"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=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}