andrewducker | Interesting Links for 15-12-2021

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol - Here's Why!: (tags:muppets christmas viaMarrog )
Peter Molyneux's next game is a Blockchain pyramid scheme: (tags:games blockchain OhForFucksSake PeterMolyneux )
Scottish bottle return scheme will not start until 2023: (tags:Scotland recycling )
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Van Gogh Alive Comes to Edinburgh: (tags:VincentVanGogh Edinburgh art Scotland )
Testing disruption leaves UK 'flying blind' over scale of omicron wave: (tags:UK Pandemic testing Doom )
About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated: (tags:religion usa )
Star Wars: Imperial March x Carol of The Bells: (tags:StarWars viaConuly music christmas video )
The Depression Treatment That Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days (I'd love to know how long it lasts): (tags:depression neuroscience fmri )
Omicron symptoms differ from other Covid strains: (tags:pandemic virus )
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Why battery costs have plunged 89 percent since 2010: (tags:batteries economics )
UK Hospitals likely to be overwhelmed by omicron: (tags:uk nhs doom )
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Malta becomes first EU nation to legalise cannabis: (tags:malta marijuana legalisation )
'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the Rings at 20: (tags:lotr history movies )

Oh, interesting! It doesn't make my any little bit less critical of HW but I also can't help thinking, Tarantino's best films involved stunning aesthetics and characterisation established while something else was going on, and then the action scenes actually resolving quickly because the important premises were already set-up in advance, which is not far from Tolkien, so assuming that's intended as a dig, I'm not sure, I'd actually be interested to see the result. (Although filming LOTR had innumerable other challenges which is seems Jackson managed very well, and I've no idea if Tarantino would have been any good at, and I assume bringing in a new, distinctive, director THEN would have been a disaster if anyone seriously considered it -- I assume Tarantino's hypothetical version would have been quite different.)

Tarantino's aesthetic would be fascinating. I can't see it working, but on the other hand, I wouldn't have thought the director of Bad Taste would make a good LOTR movie either!

Yeah, Peter Jackson's success made me think I'm much less good at predicting who will do something well than I assumed I was :)

Interesting Links for 15-12-2021

'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the Rin

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