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Yeah rings of power is trash, we know
>soulless company creates soulless product
omg no
>soulless company
Redundant.
Unless you can name 10 soulful companies.
>Henry Ford's Ford
>Disney's Disney
>MGM until the bankruptcy
>Alpha France
>Pathe
>The Weinstein Company
>RKO
>Rheinmetal
>Mitsubishi Zaibatsu
>Ferrari
>Unless you can name 10 soulful companies.
Wagner LLC
Academi
Blackwater
Aegis Defence Services
One of the million examples that showcase the decadence of the Burger Empire.
>lord of the rings
>plate armor
Hacksons mistake to begin with. All of it should have been chainmail, maybe some scale.
And yeah, nuFantasy costumes tend to look cheap and shit.
Go cry about tomatoes gay
Tomatoes are fine and whatever, but plate armor is, as far as I remember, not mentioned, and I think think books even mention Gondorians wearing chainmail. It's also better that way because then you have Gondor in plate looking like late middle ages when they have Rohan on their borders that look like early to high middle ages anglo saxons.
Tolkien definitely refers to plate armor
You would have to find me a passage in the book then, because I remember searching for this before and I didn't find plate armor, at least in LotR books themselves. Not sure about Hobbit or other works.
Doesn't imrahil have a shiny vambrace, being played armor? I could have sworn he described iron helms. He definitely refers to orcs heavy iron shod feet.
Maybe, I will need to check it out again then.
Rohirim are chainmail. They're Saxons on horses, or something along that line. Gondor has proper knights, with 'shiny armour', and helmets. It's safe to assume, that's plate. Not gothic full plate, but plate armour nontheless.
''Knights'' don't have to use plate armor, at certain periods they didn't use it. But it's just weird to have late medieval looking Gondorians (and Uruk hai for that matter) next to 10the century or so anglo saxon Rohan. They should have made Gondorians look like 10th century French.
It makes since for the swiftest and most skilled warriors to not be full plate while gondorian foot soldiers do.
Not really, since heavily armored cavalry was still important even in late middle ages.
It does if they're anglo saxon
gondor were byzantine. even dain's folk wore metal hosiery instead of plate
Nah
I don't remember that but I do remember a lot of references to shields and typically people did not use shields when wearing plate because it was just that protective, made more sense to use a two handed weapon to bludgeon other dudes wearing plate to the ground so that you can either ransom them or less commonly kill them by putting your dagger through their visor slot.
There’s some plat at or at least, because Imrahil of Dol Amroth uses his shining vambrace to check if Éowyn is breathing after Pelennor Fields.
>B-BUT THAT'S NOT ACCURATE TO T-
When you're making a product meant for entertainment you need to make choices that reflect that. Plate armor looks fricking nice. You're like the fricking autists that insist the orcs should be speaking their own dialect and unironically whine that they used the word "menu", then we get le heckin authentic orc language with their cgi slop walking around going "VISH NUSH OOGA BOOGISH MALU DING DONG" in the new movies and it sounds fricking goofy because everyone with an IQ over 20 understands just having it in english makes for a better viewing experience.
Not really, you are overreacting. I don't care how orcs speak, but I don't really care for plate armor, especially when they mix up aesthetics of different periods too much to make it kitchen sink.
tl;dr
one autist is crying because NOOO THEY NEED TO LOOK LIKE ANGLO SAXONS or something
the other autist is pointing out his hypocrisies with other aspects of the movies which is quite a common thing when it comes to Tolkiengays.
tl;dr
ROP is gay
"chain" mail and "scale" did not exist you fricking fruitcake moron
lmao
you're so fricking stupid holy shit
There was only Mail
moron
homie tolkien was a moronic christcuck who legit believed bread turned into the flesh of jesus every weekend. think about how fricking moronic you have to be to believe that. he got on his knees and prayed to an imaginary israeli fairy every day. he didn’t know shit about history and probably thought there was modernity and then just king arthur before that, stretching back infinitely. christians aren’t capable of rational abstraction. and don’t fricking go on about how he taught at oxford, he taught english literature which is just low IQ unfalsifiable bullshit being applied to tedious shitty stories like beowulf from shit smelling cave man made up drunk around a fire. enjoy LOTR for its fantasy and imagination, don’t expect accuracy or common sense. chances are you are smarter than tolkien was and notice shit more
>thread about how shitty rangs of poower is
>seethes out of nowhere about Christianity
LMAO
No, you are not more intelligent than an oxford professor at merton college from 1950, you aren’t even as intelligent as one from 1250. Shut the frick up you fedora tipping moron.
>actual armour crafted for the movie
>but it's plate armour though
Elves and dwarves had plate armor for thousands of years.
the israelite cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made
I wouldn't blame Amazon for this one. They hired Weta Workshops who did all the prop work for the LoTR trilogy.
The question is what the frick has happened to Weta in the last 20 years.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and blame the incompetent millennial & zoomer women and minorities being churned out by art & design schools now.
Weta has done a lot of great work recently, Blade Runner 2049, Alita, X. But also very mainstream stuff like Avatar. In very big budget productions the art direction takes backseat and funds get misappropriated.
Wat. You call any of that recent? Here i thought I was out of touch with how fast time is moving.
Weta asked big money and amazon refused, then they built shit according to budget given.
>Weta Workshops
kiwis are a pretty mid looking people
there's only the redhead but I bet she is not even a new zealander
imagine the smell
>oh noooo a female costume designer
>oh noooo a female set designer
This is one of those instances where the red pill narrative has melted people’s brains. You think it’s somehow straighter to hire a gay man to make dresses for elves than a women
Literally who are you quoting? Who said those things? What are you implying?
Bro i can count over 60% females on that pic
2-3 really dedicated to their craft? I can dig
Like 15 females working on something? Nah
I'm gonna go with art majors and nepotism no fricking company is run like that
Yes, that’s how most art majors are nowadays. 50%, if not more, are women. It’s different for certain things, but that proves my point even more. VFX is mostly men because it’s way more technical and technological. Costume design is way more female… because it’s hands on and it’s clothes.
Most very famous fashion designers are men because running a business and manufacturing can be very technical as well (and they’re ALL gay) but for just an employee who works in costume design… that’s like 100x more female than the average job in Hollywood.
Go to the credits of 15 films you like and see who did the costumes
the dresses were rather plain as well
olden times people couldn't do tailoring, apparently
they had better costumes in the 40s while there was a world war going on
Why it does look so cheap? Not only the costumes, but the scenery and the lighting too.
A lot of scenes were filmed on a sound stage.
That's why the show has this cheap, video gamey look to it. Almost like it was filmed in unreal engine.
the stone looks awkwardly fitted like it's just styrofoam which I'm sure it is
breasts in the orange dress would've had to get fully nude every episode for me to even consider watching this show
Ren faire slag make a better effort with their costumes.
I'm so annoyed that burgers get this shit, and in europe, the very style they are using never does it.
We have gay nerd and weeb cons here now, hopefully ren faires will follow. It's the one burger culture thing I DO want here, swagger around in a Conan loincloth mogging all the dyel nerds and pork some fat tittied hippy slags
>pic
Answer is "yes."
the ONLY good thing about the entire Numenor sub plot
there was no authenticity, they clearly didn't give a shit like they did 20 years ago where they would look up actual medieval tailoring and armory to make it look like something that was actually real
it is pretty evident from other things they were more concerned about social issues on twitter than making kino, whether or not their gender or ethnicity influenced this
>the show was bad
>therefore everything in it was bad and every nitpick is equally valid because I am MAD
That’s not how it works. You’d be b***hing about the Jackson films in the same way but you liked them so you don’t. Rings of Power was bad because whoever was in charge simply wasn’t inspired by the source material like Jackson was. They were handed an ip by the people who control the funding and they had to write something. That doesn’t mean everything in the show was bad, or none of the people working on it were talented. For the most part the show LOOKED great, it just wasn’t interesting or inspired storytelling. The writing was the problem.
shut the frick up homosexual
Gay men are still MEN, and therefore are smarter than women. Simple as.
Eowyn sex
Best lotr girl.
Arwen gays btfo.
dibs on the redhead
Good eye! I'll take sloppy seconds
a recent reunion photo of the Weta crew that worked on the original movies.
Why would you assume Weta with their incredible track record would be to blame over Amazon? I could understand if Weta did a poor job several times in a row working with different studios, The showrunners have no experience so it seems much more likely that Weta did exactly what was asked, but what they were asked to do wasn't well thought out, probably rushed and underfunded.
What happened to every company that lives off people that don't even work there anymore. HR and PR roasties. It's most visible in vidyagames though
im sure they do and did whatever the people making the movie said they wanted
20 years is a long ass time
What's the point of plate if it doesn't even protect his belly?
>1 billion budget
Source?
Most went to DEI trainings.
But where's the source that the budget was 1 billion?
>After five years of development, The Rings of Power will finally premiere Sept. 2 on Amazon Prime Video. With a record-setting price tag of $1 billion, it will be the most expensive show ever made.
https://time.com/6205837/the-rings-of-power-amazon-most-expensive/
>Amazon insiders say its $1 billion 'Lord of the Rings' series will determine the company's streaming future.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-lord-rings-power-billion-dollar-prequel-streaming-hollywood-2022-8
Its almost certainly fake. Amazon pretending that every episode would have a movie like budget and quality. Instead we get homosexualry.
Right looks worst than cosplay armor.
first season costed 280m which is much less per hour of footage than lord of the rings, considering the inflation and shit. This is dishonest pic
ROP trannies will eat any old slop
Unironically better than the hobbit.
The only people who would defend the hobbit would defend RoP though
I'm not finished with the Silmarillion but it seemed like the hobbit movies ruined more source material while ROP is trying to fill in the blanks. They're both garbage. I do enjoy the first part of the first hobbit movies and it's music. There were a few nice moments in ROP.
ROP isn't even close to Silmarilion. They took a giant dump on the source material. They're throwing a thousand years into one, while changing whole tone of the novel into cringy dark evil fantasy. Numenorians, that are superhumans per Tolkien, on par with High Elves, come out as Storm Troupers.
What's the most nerve wrecking, is that there's a ton of material in Silmarilion, just aching to be told. It's not Hobbit, that's one movie childrens tale, it's massive legendarium, with stories and settings that you can beautifully draw out into a tv series. Take Baleriand, for example, it's vast, packed with factions and territories, and you have a big big baddie up there in the north breading dragons the size of the mountains. But not, they just wanted to do hobbits and a wizard, even though both aren't even mentioned in Silmarilion, a superhuman woman character, and Saruman.
No imagination whatsoever, on top of poor knowledge and understanding of the novel that they were given. One only wonders what these frickers would come up with, if they were allowed to do LOTR characters, like they wanted to, but were not allowed by Christopher.
tbf not entirely a valid criticism as they were not allowed to adapt the Silmarillion
they basically reconstructed a portion of the Silmarillion using only the information given in LOTR and its appendices and original content. It's shit, I'm sure, which I have never actually watched but they were pretty straightforward with what they were allowed to do and it's scope
For me it's the necromonger armor
damn that's cool I bet it would suck to have to fight that guy
He's not a "guy" He's a holy half-dead who has seen the underverse!
what's that chain going to do over his head? wear some padding under that helmet, idiot.
It's a shame we didn't get to see more of the KINOMONGERS.
Frickin' cool faction.
A lot of modern fantasy has this problem with costumes where they look fake and plastic.
I wonder if it's something conscious or just a product of wanting to save some money.
Problem with metal armor, be it real metal or simply made to look like metal, is that it creates lots of reflections and makes people look like disco balls when standing in normal film lights. Excalibur is one of the few films that uses real metal armor and the result is lots of gleaming armor. The film deliberately leans into this up for stylistic effect, even going so far as to recreate it in things other than the armor itself such as the shiny hilt of Excalibur by deliberately shining lights on it that reflect into the camera. But as a general rule film making is about avoiding these kinds of effects because they're just annoying to deal with because its hard to deal with these kinds of extreme contrasts.
Combat armour didn't look like a gleaming silver mirror, it was fairly dull.
What makes me fume about plate in tv&film is how they just wear fricking shiny plates.
That shit was always under livery so it wasn't just 2000 identical morons swinging hammers at each other, everyone wore brightly-coloured fabric liveries over their plate so you could see who the frick was who and you didn't smash your own baron in the spine by accident
>Combat armour didn't look like a gleaming silver mirror, it was fairly dull.
Yes. Problem is that it only looks dull in real life in real light. Film and tv uses unnaturally strong lights, that also comes in from that comes in from impossible angles. So even if you scuff up the armor you'll still have very reflective round metal surfaces which is a recepie for creating lots of glare.
Another reason why omitting livery is moronic. Kino brightly coloured fabrics with coats of arms and shit to absorb all that stage lighting.
Actually after inflation and the fact ROP is a series of 8 eps it's more like 160m vs 375m taking into account 1 movie was the length of 3 eps. tbh
When is the next stream e;r
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You will wear the b***hbreasts gyno breastplate and you will love the new LOTR.
>Hollywood + Amazon
900 million of that went into rave parties with underage prostitutes on an undisclosed private island
damn bezos looks pretty ripped for a short and bald cuck, it would suck to have to be his bull
When you're so powerful you don't need armor and when you're so weak you have to rely on such bulky armor.
I don't see the issue.
Just compare Elendil from RoP with Fellowship.
>all those part-maori mongrels behind him
truly a golden age of Man
Part of the Númenoréan populace also consistend of shorted and swarthy men called Druedain. Makes sense for some soldiers to ve mixed with them.
Don’t worry they’re just operating on chudlogic
So many fallacies here that I have to wear a helmet
Well it is chudlogic so that’s not surprising
The right side is armor to wear when you’re on a ship right? You really wouldn’t want heavy plate if you can fall in, and need to move quickly. I thought the set design was one of the better parts of the series honestly. It was trash but not because of that
left is meant to evoke high middle ages, right is meant to evoke Ancient Greek hoplites
It's a shit attempt to tie the two fantasy eras to real historical eras
watching israelites hemorrhage money with these constant string of failures is so satisfying
Watching everything get so visibly shittier as it all gets rapidly browner is the true icing on the cake
You guys still don't get the difference between movies and TV do you? These costumes are for 8 years of filming 50 hours of content, not 3 years of filming 15.
you dont understand a billion dollar budget do you
inflation $94m in 2001 is over $160m in 2023
how much is $715 million in 2023 money?
That budget was for five seasons of TV, dummy. Not one.
>this moron thinks costume departments make ONE copy of a costume
all the budget in the world and they got mogged by some autist boomer doing wardrobe
>'bingelpoof vs dingeldangel' fairytale battle
Ever consider just growing up?
>what is inflation?
more SOVL in 42 seconds than Amazon's shit will ever have.
Just finished rereading LOTR and hobbit
now what
Now you realise they’re the most overrated fantasy books ever made and that ASOIAF is unironically leaps and bounds better and more mature
unnecessary bait
I am listening through the audiobooks at the moment on longer drives and it's comfy but I'm almost done A Storm of Swords and the series completely loses focus after that like someone who's fallen over in mud and is flailing around
ASOIAF is midwit pseud moron shit.
Now you read Conan or Barsoom. Far more action, more breasts, similarly simplistic in their themes, both predate Tolkien, and aren't just bloated retellings of Beowulf and other anglo-saxon myths.
It`s called felony tax evasion. They declare costs for 1 billion so that when they have to calculate taxes related to profits they can pay less. The difference between the declared costs and the actual costs is disguised inflating the budget numbers and that money "disappears" from the system.
they claim to have 3 times the budget per episode that house of the dragon has. I am not sure how the frick anyone can believe that they are spending 66 -70 million per episode its insane no way they are spending more then 10 million on this dog shit
say what you want about House of the Dragon and while a couple of the armor designs are ugly the actual clothing and a lot of the sets are stunning and very high quality. Positive the clothing is better quality than GOT and more visually appealing
this is the whole point man HotD looks 5 times better then Rope yet its got 1/3rd the budget that Rope has. this shit does not add up at all Amazon is full of shit and are simply lying about the budget.
They also spent like 10 years making LotR. Preproduction was insane.