{"id":3069,"date":"2013-12-28T18:10:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T10:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2013-12-28T18:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T10:11:40","slug":"hate-peter-jackson-excess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2013\/12\/hate-peter-jackson-excess\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Hate Peter Jackson: Excess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I finally made it through the opening montage. Peter Jackson even managed to throw in a few shots of New Zealand scenery. <\/p>\n<p>Lessons we learned in the montage, which by my clock was nearly nine minutes long:<\/p>\n<p>1. Dragons love gold<\/p>\n<p>2. There is an expensive jewel called the Arkenstone buried in the gold<\/p>\n<p>3. Thorin hates elves because they wouldn&#8217;t come and help him fight a hopeless battle against Smaug<\/p>\n<p>4. Ummm, New Zealand has some pretty mountains?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Nine minutes of opening screen time to learn a few basic facts that could have been revealed much later in the course of the story. Why not just start in the Shire and keep these things a mystery for now???<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minutes Watched:<\/strong> 08.53<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of Montages:<\/strong> 1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start at the <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2013\/12\/happening\/\" target=\"_blank\">beginning<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I finally made it through the opening montage. Peter Jackson even managed to throw in a few shots of New Zealand scenery. Lessons we learned in the montage, which by my clock was nearly nine minutes long: 1. Dragons love gold 2. There is an expensive jewel called the Arkenstone buried in the gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2653,1771,1770,1724,1237,1712,2657,2645],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-arkenstone","tag-dwarves","tag-elves","tag-montage","tag-new-zealand","tag-peter-jackson","tag-smaug","tag-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}