{"id":3421,"date":"2002-11-25T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2002-11-25T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:12:40","slug":"equal_time_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/25\/equal_time_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Equal time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having posted so much last year about how incredibly keen <i>Fellowship of the Ring <\/i>was, fairness requires I provide a link to <a title=\"50 Reasons Lord of the Rings Sucks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlesswasteoftime.com\/film\/50reasons.html\">50 Reasons Lord of the Rings Sucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">1.  <b><i>Fellowship of the Rings <\/i>was shoved down our throats<\/b>:  I&#8217;ve heard some students are even forced to read some novelization of the movie in their literature classes. Ridiculous. Does Hollywood run our classrooms now? <br \/>\n2. <b>Greed<\/b>: Hollywood can&#8217;t make a movie these days without crapping out a sequel the next year to squeeze more money out of the sheep. Guess what; there&#8217;s ANOTHER LOTR movie coming this Christmas. Gee, I wonder what will bring Rocky out of retirement this time?<br \/>\n27. <b>Homage or theft?<\/b>: The &#8220;happy village of little people&#8221; idea was stolen from <i>Willow<\/i>.<br \/>\n47.  <b>Casting, III<\/b>:  Why couldn&#8217;t Bilbo have been played by Vin Diesel?<\/p>\n<p><small>(via, indirectly, Randy)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having posted so much last year about how incredibly keen Fellowship of the Ring was, fairness requires I provide a link to 50 Reasons Lord of the Rings Sucks&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[382,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48675,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/movie-review-fellowship-of-the-ring-2001.html","url_meta":{"origin":3421,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Fellowship of the Ring&quot; (2001)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Dec-14 1:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've enjoyed Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptations all down the line -- but one can make a solid case that they have dropped in quality over the years, largely as Jackson's own content or story changes have taken up more of the story. 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