Stephen Fry: 'I ate testicles for The Hobbit'

Stephen Fry tells us that his "very gross figure" in Peter Jackson's upcoming Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit, recalls Jackson's earlier work in movies like Bad Taste and Brain Dead.

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[luclfersangel616]

@ranger5230 Stephen Fry doesn't hate Catholics . . . he hates Catholicism.

[Dekuscrubby]

@ranger5230 (continued) He's in opposition to the Pope's ridiculously archaic stance on contraception which has caused insurmountable suffering in Catholic Africa, to the exclusion of homosexuals from participating in Catholicism and to the well-publicised inappropriate conduct by members of the clergy. These aspects of Catholicism promote intolerance and abuse, and arguing against them isn't bigotry.

[EshnehGaming]

@GrunGrauWeiss

Go read the hobbit for a start, and then look at peter jackson's history, doubt this is gonna be shit.

[GrunGrauWeiss]

@451harri you're right... this is serious business.

[451harri]

@GrunGrauWeiss fun? this is the internet, so accordingly I'm going to start hurling obscene accusations at you for having an opinion that differs from mine, if that's alright by you.

[GrunGrauWeiss]

@451harri llooooll point taken :) I'll admit I enjoyed the movies at the time, despite the departures from the storyline and the somewhat inconsistent pacing etc etc oh, and Enya ffs! I was a fan of braindead etc already and do firmly believe that jackson did it as well as it could be done.

But I watched them again recently and realised that, frankly, they're shite. Let me have my fun!

[451harri]

@GrunGrauWeiss They made a mawkish cheese-fest out of a fantasy book which was written in order to portray a struggle between a pure-hearted, innocent gang of steely-nerved good guys against a force which represented all the sins of the explicitly (and overwhelmingly) catholic good/bad dichotomy which made up the author's worldview? and it was so bad that the trilogy won 17 academy awards and is one of the most highly praised film sagas of all time? The horror!

[GrunGrauWeiss]

@451harri because of the sickly-sweet, mawkish cheese-fest they made of LOTR.

I bet the hobbit will even have a 'love interest' crowbarred into it, simply because the movie industry demands that at least half the audience can expect to have their gonads tickled.

Sorry to be so negative, I really hope I'm wrong.

[451harri]

@GrunGrauWeiss What gives you that impression?

[Vanaathiel]

I guess he corrected himself :)

[Vanaathiel]

Isn't he the master of Lake TOWN, not Lake Land??

[GrunGrauWeiss]

no offense meant to Fry, but I have a horrible feeling this movie is going to be a fucking travesty.