Favourite Peter Jackson Movie.

[Wat_Tyler]

All hail the Kiwi King of splatter!
I think I'll go for the original, Bad Taste - an extraordinary achievement for talented amateurs.
Pity he seemed to drop off the radar after The Frighteners - anyone hear what he's up to know?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I hear he's stuck making movies based on 50 year old novels

:puke:

[Wat_Tyler]

2. Really?

Hopefully not 'The Fountainhead'.

[bigwillq]

3. I think he won a couple of Oscars.

:shrug:

[Wat_Tyler]

5. Really?

What, like technical ones? I must've missed them. Is he slumming it as a DP or something?

[bigwillq]

7. Yeah, I think they were just technical ones.

Does he still have that ugly,long beard!?

[Wat_Tyler]

8. Probably.

Looks like a bloody - what were those guys in that book by the English guy about the guys who live in holes in the ground and shit called?

[bigwillq]

9. Holes?

:shrug: I really have no idea what you're talking about. Sorry.

[Wat_Tyler]

10. You know - the ones with the hairy feet and the magic rings and shit.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Dude, I think you must be thinking of a dream you had

None of that sounds familiar at all.

[bigwillq]

12. Oh, that one!

Now I get it!

Honestly, I never read the books or seen any of those movies. LOTR!

[Elidor]

13. C.H.U.D.?

I love that movie.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

17. Your sig line

...is just plain twisted on so many levels. Thanks for the Sunday a.m. belly laugh!

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. Meet the Feebles

Best. Puppet movie. Ever.

[Wat_Tyler]

6. The best thing to do with it is to hold a sophisticated dinner party

then pop it in the video without telling your guests anything about it.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. That would be a remarkable dinner party.

[tigereye]

15. that would be a Bunuel film

[asthmaticeog]

16. Forgotten Silver

Story: I showed "Forgotten Silver" to a friend who, at the time, was in film school. I didn't let on that it was a put-on. He entirely bought it, becoming outraged that his professors weren't teaching about Jackson's fictional filmmaker. Which I think is as fine a testament as any to Jackson's skill as a director. I don't understand why he isn't better-known.

[Wat_Tyler]

18. I've never had the chance to see it.

I know the idea behind it - I'm a big fan of mockumentary, doubly so when it is utterly serious. There's so many extraordinary eccentrics in the history of New Zealand, like Mad Richard Pearse, who flew before the Wright brothers, that it rings very, very true.

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

19. I'm assuming this excludes LOTR, so it's Heavenly Creatures.

If we're including LOTR, then you know my choice.

[Susang]

20. I hear he's turned to directing chick flicks

Hey, it's a living. ;-)