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Post by ModdedCentipede on Apr 28, 2024 13:08:43 GMT
Last week, Balder mentioned the Lord of the Rings. And I was like "I know, let's do..."  Year: 2014 Starring: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch Directed by: Peter Jackson Written by: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, |
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scipioafricanus
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Post by scipioafricanus on Apr 28, 2024 20:34:39 GMT
I have heard it should have only been two movies and wasn't as good. I am reluctant to see them.
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Post by centipede on Apr 29, 2024 3:05:22 GMT
I've never seen them, but I can imagine it's a more lighthearted version of LotR. But surely, they can't be that bad, can they?
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Post by Balder on Apr 29, 2024 18:11:06 GMT
I didn't like them on release, however, they got somewhat better when the extended versions released funnily enough. I know people hate them for adding to much shit that wasn't in the book, but who cares? This is another medium.
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Post by Cervantes on Apr 30, 2024 2:57:45 GMT
They're not terrible by any means, it's just that compared to how great LotR was, these ones do not fare well at all. They're average.
Much better than Rings of Power, though. That one is the real stinker.
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Post by centipede on Apr 30, 2024 12:48:30 GMT
Much better than Rings of Power, though. That one is the real stinker. I heard about that. A billion dollars, supposedly. I heard a conspiracy theory that the script was generated entirely by AI. |
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Post by cobretti on May 1, 2024 5:47:09 GMT
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Post by scipioafricanus on May 1, 2024 10:07:29 GMT
Much better than Rings of Power, though. That one is the real stinker. I heard about that. A billion dollars, supposedly. I heard a conspiracy theory that the script was generated entirely by AI. Nah, it was just ruined by the Didn't Earn It people.
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Post by dschult3 on May 1, 2024 12:05:35 GMT
I guess I would say that I'm in the middle on this series as a whole. Balder, I get hating book snobs, I really do. However, I feel like they added stuff to the movies, just because they wanted to put on those nostalgia goggles and make a buck. I liked the first movie, and when they added a bit of The Silmarillion in it, I was excited. It was the 2nd movie that I felt was a let down. I don't mind additional material to make the movie flow, but this movie had added material just to stretch out the playtime so they could justify making 3 films. I know this may sound like nerd talk, but I wasn't a big fan of the "forbidden love" sequence, which was never a part of the story in the first place. I thought the floating barrel scene was way over the top, because they added an extreme fantastical element to it, which was really funny in the source material, and it didn't need to be messed with. Now the 3rd movie was pretty cool. The battle of the 5 armies was done extremely well, and I enjoyed how the movie finished. For me, the problem lies in the fact that the book is too small for 3 films, yet they stretched it to make that money. To make things worse Guillermo del Toro, was originally supposed to do the movies, as discussed in the video below. Because they switched directors, the movies were rushed. They didn't get the polish the LotR movies got. It's a shame, really, because there was something great in the source material which was not fully translated to the big screen. I'm not saying that they're awful, but they definitely aren't great either. |
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Post by centipede on May 2, 2024 1:46:51 GMT
I heard about that. A billion dollars, supposedly. I heard a conspiracy theory that the script was generated entirely by AI. Nah, it was just ruined by the Didn't Earn It people.
"Didn't Earn It" (read: "I got in because daddy has connections!"). Ah, yes! But personally, with RoP, I smell a money laundering racket. You don't have production output that low with one entire giga-dollar.
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Post by scipioafricanus on May 8, 2024 22:59:08 GMT
Nah, it was just ruined by the Didn't Earn It people.
"Didn't Earn It" (read: "I got in because daddy has connections!"). Ah, yes! But personally, with RoP, I smell a money laundering racket. You don't have production output that low with one entire giga-dollar.
“It’s a money-making venture and I’m not interested in watching that or being in it. Good luck to them and all that stuff but it’s not like the real thing." Bernard Hill
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