Hobbits in Space?

October 1, 2009 2:18 PM

Controversy has surrounded the overall vision of the new Hobbit movie, now that Peter Jackson is no longer at the helm. Enter Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (SLYT)
posted by litterateur (16 comments total)

Still the best thing on Youtube.
posted by dragonette1 at 2:21 PM on October 1, 2009

Controversy has surrounded the overall vision of the new Hobbit movie In that it's stopping us getting a Mountains of Madness movie. WTF Del Toro, I know this will make you a mountain of cash and shit, but we want Shoggoths!
posted by Artw at 2:23 PM on October 1, 2009 [3 favorites]

HIS BRAIN IS MISSING. AND THIS IS A DOUBLE!.
posted by zarq at 2:23 PM on October 1, 2009

This is a double, and PJ is still producing and screenwriting the film.
posted by mkultra at 2:23 PM on October 1, 2009

Way previously
posted by Hargrimm at 2:23 PM on October 1, 2009

1998 is calling, but I don't have a landline any more.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 2:24 PM on October 1, 2009 [1 favorite]

Dang it. Sorry. Thought I looked hard enough.
posted by litterateur at 2:24 PM on October 1, 2009

Also I'll see your Nimoy and raise you a Shatner doing Rocketman.
posted by Artw at 2:25 PM on October 1, 2009

Also... this is far, far better: Shatner and Joe Jackson: Common People.
posted by zarq at 2:27 PM on October 1, 2009

As big a fan of Shatner as I am, I find Nimoy's music career far more interesting. Nimoy took it pretty seriously, and so there is more to listen to, and it's all ... so ... odd.
posted by Astro Zombie at 2:34 PM on October 1, 2009

Wake me up when it's Leonard Cohen doing that song, and then I'll be interested.
posted by Sova at 2:35 PM on October 1, 2009

I dunno, the Shatner version of Common People has always stuck me as a dim echo of the era where Shatner would pull shit like this, with a bit too much knowing nudge-nudge self mockery. Possibly that's just my annoyance at it being the only version of the song that Yanquis know speaking.
posted by Artw at 2:36 PM on October 1, 2009

Astro Zombie - Oh yes. See for instance his version of If I Have a Hammer. He had a very serious, very hippyish folksy thing going on. I actually kind of like the both of them, they kind of balance each other out.
posted by Artw at 2:38 PM on October 1, 2009

Captain Kirk is Climbing a Mountain.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 2:39 PM on October 1, 2009 [1 favorite]

You know what I haven't seen anybody say in a long time?

WEAK. SAUCE.
posted by GuyZero at 2:40 PM on October 1, 2009

I really preferred it back when Shatner had a neck.
posted by Artw at 2:41 PM on October 1, 2009