Before you get mad at me, when was the last time you watched it?

  • Dialogue is mediocre
  • story left me indifferent
  • characters are one dimensional
  • there are no surprises
  • the world is cool tho
  • and my god are they crying a lot while carrying that MF to that Volcano 🌋

The best thing I can say about this movie trilogy is that it is kinda comfy

  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I love LotR, but I can’t watch it anymore. I know every plot point that happens in the films, so watching them becomes boring for me.

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    The “Lord of the Rings” is not a character driven book and the same goes wirh the film adaptations. It is plot driven with heavy focus on world building, which can either make it an amazing or a boring experience. Depending on your preferences.

    Based on the list of your favourite films (excellent, BTW, some of my own favourites are there) you seem to prefer character driven ones. So I can easily understand why you find the LOTR films boring.

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      I love that the top comment isn’t everyone piling hate upon the poster but rather an analysis of why they most likely don’t like the series.

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      LOTR itself is world building through characters, and building characters through their reaction to the world.

      The films are just action with lots of nice views.

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    11 days ago

    You should be grateful, what I remember from the books is something like “and they rode and rode and rode and rode and rode again and kept riding and rode and rode”.

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    LotR trilogy is an adaptation of an already classic tale, specifically stylized after legends and folk stories. It’s seeming naivity and lack of newer approaches is intentional and suggested by it’s source material. It is a compelling journey into the Middle-Earth, where said tone is complimented by thosands of competent people in it’s production, together creating an extraordinary piece that can hardly be reproduced anytime soon or matched in it’s own league of fantasy-aligned stuff.

    Favorite movies are: Memento, Reservoir Dogs, Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Shining

    While LotR wasn’t shy of looking older (to buy some ale, eh?), every one of your favorite movie is characterised by explicit use of newest post-modern tropes or approaches.

    RD is Tarantino’s first mixtape of what he liked in movies with some layers of abstraction and purely staged interactions, The Shining is a theme park of moments where Stanley can go full Kubrik, Memento is an intentional Nolan’s sabotage of a plot structure to create a new experience, and EEAaO is an impressive patchwork of gags, drama and trope reversals fit so tightly in it I thought I’m scrolling bits on tiktok. All ace at something they are meant to.

    It’s not to say that one is easily better than the other, but they are hardly comparable because they don’t strive to do the same thing, and if you are into movies that play with your expectations and try hard to keep your engaged and puzzled, you’d obviously have a hard time with movies that paint their own picture for you to observe and vibe with.

    That’s, like, your taste, lemming.

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      10 days ago

      Wow, are you a professional writer? (I’m not being sarcastic here, because that can be hard to tell sometimes). That was really well written and I don’t really have anything of value to add to that.

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        Not even a native speaker, but a random someone who got interested in the thread you started (:

        P.S.: Thanks for a comfy pepe gif, I’m taking it.

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            Nein. Out of the sizeable community of nations once promoted themselves to be the Third Rome, I reside in the one that actively bombs their neighbor as we speak. It’s probably disappointing to you.

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      also all stories are simple if you break them down enough,

      “The hero beats the bad guy”

      or break them down too much and they all become complicated

      “Spot the dog is compelled to sprint after a red ball as a symbol of the pursuit of personal goals by external factors. His name evokes the temporary nature of fleeting desire and functions as a fulcrum for the irony of pursuing mere frippery…”

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    11 days ago

    As someone who had a LOTR wedding theme, take your upvote and get the fuck out of here.

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        Damn, I would have appreciated that. LOTR was huge in Australia and my family/friend group so it worked out.

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      LOTR is by no means a trilogy for everyone, I hope your guests liked the premise, or at least appreciated it (it was your day though, so the most important thing is that you had a blast).

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        Pretty nerdy friend group but honestly it was just a light theme for the reception, no pressure to dress up. Made the drinking more fun for all I think

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    I think the problem is you’re not watching the extended versions… All in one showing… Without bathroom breaks… Like a normal person…

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    I mean it’s no Crank starring Jason Statham but don’t worry. I’m sure they will release another Fast n the Furious sequel for you soon.

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      Copied, because you didn’t read it: Favorite movies are:

      Memento

      Reservoir Dogs

      Everything Everywhere All At Once

      The Shining

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    I find it believable that this is truly an unpopular opinion.

    That said, I watch the movies at least once every year with family and/or friends and a truckload of snacks and beer.

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    The only people I’ve ever met who share this opinion are people who’ve spent their entire life viewing things that are fast-paced action movies or movies where characters are defined entirely by a handful of quippy one-liners and a melodramatic flash back and then have all of their character development confined to a singular moment of epiphany. Movies where they would be alphabet level predictable if they didn’t move onto the next hackneyed trope at whiplash inducing paces.

    If you spend your entire life watching the cinematic equivalent of cocaine of course sobriety is going to be boring.

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    Well … take you’re upvote. Now go burn in hell.

    (Watched all extended editions last year).

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      Haha, right! Gandalf straight up falls into a pit with a demon-being and then comes back. If someone predicted that then that would be incredible.

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    I’m all for valid criticisms, but mediocre dialogue and one-dimensional characters? And your fave movies are Momento and Reservoir Dogs? The math ain’t mathing.

    Like what you like, but I call bullshit. Logging this under “I said some controversial shit to stir up online discourse.” Enjoy my downvote, sir.

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    My family watches it every year

    -the dialog is pretty iconic

    -story is simple, it’s fine though

    -the characters are pretty simple, but they are still interesting in their own way imo

    -the ending to return of the king does undeniably drag

    Honestly I think it’s a pretty polarizing film series. It takes some huge gambles in including a lot of pretty deep lore and details that most people probably don’t care about. Most people i know who’ve seen it say they either love it or found it boring. I’ve never met someone who said the series is “pretty good”.

    I will say, the lack of reliance on plot twists makes it more rewatchable. That and the absolutely beautiful sets and costumes. In today’s age of CGI and now AI, we will never see the like of it again. EDIT: How could I forget the soundtrack?

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    Agreed.

    The books are even worse, every other page is a fucking song or extended poem.

    Most over rated shit I never finished.

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      I’m listening to Andy Serkis reading it for the forth or fifth time, while reading your comment (him singing at this moment as Tom Bombadil). One of the very few things I dislike is all the fucking songs or extended poems.

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        Yeh it was the audiobooks that I tries out, I gave it a good 10 hours or so, so I think I gave it a fair go but fuck me the singing was like nails on a chalk board for me.

        I started skipping through the songs after the first couple but then as time went on I realised just how often it was going to happen and I couldn’t stand it.

        I thought I was getting into an epic fantasy adventure and instead I got a wanky musical about walking!

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          I thought I was getting into an epic fantasy adventure and instead I got a wanky musical about walking!

          That’s how medieval people perceived their epic fantasy adventures. It’s correct. And authentic. And very cool, when you think about the distances they went, the scenery they saw and that they had no Google Maps, GPS and mobile phones for connectivity. It’s between a very long hiking trip and a one-way ticket sleeper ship to Alpha Centauri.

          BTW, another wrong thing from the movies - it feels there as if it all were happening in one world. As if they had regular trains between Minas Tirith and Fornost. As if they had TV. I dunno, something like that, because they behave there as if immune to distractions, one can imagine that in Forgotten Realms setting, where magic does everything that mobile phones and GPS can do, and “adventurers” roam everywhere, but not in Middle-Earth.

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    Yeah they were way too emotional in the movie. I much prefer the seriousness of the book where they acted like mature adults. And Gandalf was more badass in the books, and Gimli wasn’t just comic relief in the books. But the visuals were amazing in the movie. 10/10 for visuals.

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      The soundtrack is also amazing. But yeah, the movies did the characters dirty. And it’s not like the character building is particularly compelling in the books to begin with, it’s very much a “the good guys are good and triumph over the bad guys who are evil because they’re evil” kind of story.

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        I’d argue the movies went a long way to humanize the characters and make them more nuanced, like Aragorn doubting himself, Gandalf worried he’s sent Frodo to his death, Faramir Sam and Aragorn all being more tempted by the ring then they were in the books, etc. Aragorn in particular is much more compelling in the movies imo.

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      In the books they acted like saga characters with some transcendent (in otherwise medieval surroundings) knowledge of the ideals of French revolution and Catholic distributism mixed in strange ways.

      In the movies they acted like entertainment park animators. Too much superficial glossiness, too little of the feeling of the book, say, Barrow-Downs, I still remember how the descriptions of the rain and the sun and the stones felt.