Christmas is less than two weeks away lads, you know what that means - time for your annual rewatch of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
>favorite movie
>favorite format (DVD/blu ray/4k) (theatrical/extended)
>favorite scene
>favorite BTS fact
ever since pic related was released, i've done the extended edition DVDs once per year. the blu ray had the horrible blue filter if i recall correctly, and the 4k release looked almost too crisp. but i find the extended DVDs have this nice sort of dreamlike golden haze to them that complements the atmosphere well.
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>favorite movie: fellowship
>format: extended DVDs
>scene: sam's speech at the end of towers or charge of the rohirrim
>BTS fact: viggo deflecting the knife for real
How can someone be so right about so many things?
I never watched these movies.
and you never will
its ok to be brown anon
I dont rewatch movies much as I remember them too well and don't get too much fun out of rewatching what I know again and again, with few exceptions that I watched multiple times:
Groundhog Day
The Truman Show
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Joseph: King of Dreams
Anyone got some recommendations for more musicals outside of les miserables?
Mamma Mia! is unironically a fun musical if you like Abba
Check out the 1981 cast recording of Sweeney Todd with George Hearn and Angela Lansbury
you're legitimately homosexual, aren't you
Jesus Christ Superstar from the 70s is GOAT
Miss Saigon
>format
DVD Extended. The more hd versions have a muted palette
>movie
Fellowship of course
>scene
Moria. It's the only time we get to see the whole Fellowship in action together and it doesn't waste it, plus great worldbuilding, visuals, and score. I don't care for the broken stairs drama in the middle but otherwise 10/10.
>fact
That Viggo kept the horse. Actor and animal onscreen chemistry is rare and kino.
good list, fren. the bridge of khazadum sequence is up there for me as well
>The more hd versions have a muted palette
There are color corrected versions out there that (for the most part) match the DVDs.
Favorite movie: Fellowship
Format: 4k
Favorite scene: Mouth of Sauron. Love the abrupt end so much. I DO NOT BELIEVE IT. I WILL NOT.
Close second goes to “Toss me”.
Also I forgot some background trivia so I will post the best interview of all time.
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Also Arwen has a scene that was in a preview trailer of her hiding behind a pillar when Uruks are attempting to find the children that never made it to any edition and that makes me sad.
Frick, I meant Eowyn.
The 4k versions of the trilogy are absolutely terrible, extended DVDs still reign supreme
scene
Everyone else is wrong.
OP here, that is indeed my favorite. still get chills tbqh. gandalf and eomer's charge in towers was also amazing
>Bernard Hill pulling his sword and touching each spear was improvised by the actor
Me and the lads are looking for a different cut or format to watch this year. Anyone know where to grab an open matte version of any of the films or have cut suggestions? Can't just do EE every time.
I've never thought to look into a fan edit of LotR, but i do know the hobbit cardinal cut is way better than the hobbit trilogy
yeah I have a copy of the Maple Films cut that I try to include in the marathon when we want to add an additional 4.5 hours. I know there are a few book-faithful edits that cut the runtime down considerably. Really what I want is something that keeps scenes like Saruman's death and Theoden at his son's grave but cuts things like Merry and Pippin dicking around in the Isengard pantry. Or maybe even edits that reorder some scenes, like the Gondor flashbacks, since watching all the films at once puts that in a different context than watching ROTK alone. Or maybe a cut that puts everything in chronological order, from Last Alliance, Isildur's death, then stright to Smeagol backstory, then a Hobbit edit, then FOTR and on.
1>2>3
that's just how it is, and i'm sorry you have to deal with the truth
objectively correct, but it doesn't diminish the many emotional peaks and payoffs of Return. the charge of the rohirrim is essentially the climax of the world of men storyline. when theoden orders the charge, mankind chooses to not go quietly into that good night, and it brings me to manly tears every time. inb4 gay -you're gay, gay
>my brother, my captain, my king
>rohirrim charge
>my friends, you bow to no one
well said
>Simbelmÿne. Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forebears. Now it shall cover the grave of my son. Alas, that these evil days should be mine. The young perish and the old linger. That I should live to see that last days of my house.
You have four bears?
he's a bear, he's talking about the bears that came before him.
>Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam…
>Sam: I know. It’s all wrong! By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.
>Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
>Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
My favorite scene, but Fellowship is my favorite as a whole.
"Come on Mr. Frodo. I Can't Carry It for You... but I Can Carry You."
objectively correct, but it doesn't diminish the many emotional peaks and payoffs of End Game. the charge of the Superheroes is essentially the climax of the world of good storyline. when Tony Stark orders the charge, Humanity chooses to not go quietly into that good night, and it brings me to manly tears every time. inb4 gay -you're gay, gay
LotR began production pre-9/11 so it is inherently loaded with soul, and that's before taking into account the incredible autism that went into every aspect of the movies. they were filmed consecutively without waiting to see how the first one did, so they are a complete work in and of themselves. after the west lost it's innocence with 9/11, nihilism set in and the soul was systematically bored out of big budget movie releases. all this together means the LotR trilogy is literally the climax of professional filmmaking, nothing is as good and nothing will ever be as good. so again, cope and seethe nerd
also, the game
Rotk has the highest highs by far but is the weakest a standalone film. Tt is middle of the road in every respect.
Fellowship
4k Extended
The Horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time.
The spandex outfit Andy Serkis wore while playing Gollum was referred to as the "gimp suit"
the last march of the ents is such a great little scene, but Jackson didn't let it breathe enough. i get it, it's intercut with the battle of helm's deep, but that is a massive moment in the story
>fellowship on Christmas eve
>towers on Christmas day
>return on boxing day
anyone else do this? honestly fellowship on Christmas Eve is the main event, the comfiest movie ever made on the comfiest day of the year.
>favorite movie
none
>favorite format (DVD/blu ray/4k)
none
>(theatrical/extended)
none
>favorite scene
none
>favorite BTS fact
lotr is capeshit for incels
cope and seethe nerd, i have a wife and kids
>lotr is capeshit for incels
This tbh
>i have a wife and kids
Nobody will a wife and kids would be choosing to spend their free time posting about homosexual elf and midget action flicks on Cinemaphile.org, come on
i can only watch the fellowship
I think i've seen the two towers 2 or 3 times
i think i've only watched return of the king once
i have no idea how many times i have watched the fellowship. a dozen times, probably more
THE RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATION IS GOOD AND BETTER THAN THE JACKSON FILM IN SOME WAYS
i love it and hate it. very ambitious but the live action mixed in is just so weird
Last couple of years I wanted to do this, but every year I don't. Probably because it's too long. Think I'll rewatch JP instead.
LOTR is not a good movie, it's a boring basic b***h story
I lose my job tomorrow and there's no way I'm finding a job during the Holidays so why not just watch every release and every resolution and every fan edit.
>put ring on mouse
>carry mouse
>zero negative effects
I FRICKING LOVE SCIENCE
ha, you fool, you don't even understand transitive properties!
>mouse escapes because it's a mouse
>eaten by eagle
>eagle flies to mordor
What if you end up creating a dark mouse lord who wields the ring for his own selfish ends and conquers Middle Earth with his rodent hordes?
People would just take the ring for themselves still like Boromir.
The ring’s physical weight does actually increase so Sam did carry it as well. Also it can still affect you if you are near it even if you aren’t wearing it around your neck
Looks like Morrowind
>favorite movie
The Two Towers.
>favorite format (DVD/blu ray/4k) (theatrical/extended)
DVD Extended. Bluray fricks up the colours.
>favorite scene
Got to be the Charge of the Rohirrim.
>favorite BTS fact
The majority of the extras playing the Rohirrim were actually women from the local farms along with their horses.
Nah, I rewatch the LotR trilogy at some random point in the year when I just feel like it. I do the same with Back to the Future, Arnie's old movies, a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy films, various super hero movies, Kingdom of Heaven and a few others.
December though? This is the list I refer to.
>christmas horror
You objectively hate Christmas.
Nah, just sometimes I'm in the mood for something different. Krampus and Better Watch Out are pretty good movies.
My overall favorite is Joyeux Noel
No Jingle All the Way, NGMI
>Christmas horror over Elf and the Jim Carrey Grinch
brownoid
imagine not hating those two people
nu-male
it's about the nostalgia of them, brownoids. if you didn't watch those two growing up, you had a soulless 3rd world upbringing, and you have both my pity and contempt, but you need to get out of the white man's LotR thread
>If you don't like these two garbage, unfunny films you're brown.
Weird argument. I saw Grinch in theaters with a date when I was like 13 or 14. She was hispanic. She liked it, I didn't. I preferred the cartoon because I'm white and I have taste. Guess you're brown since you share their taste or whatever. Weird frick.
yes José, you are white as the driven snow and we all believe you, even though you don't like LotR or classic jim carrey movies - literally a prerequisite to having a normal, white childhood
>don't like LotR
When in the hell did I say that? The original post said I watch them at their own time, they're not linked to the holiday. If anything Narnia has a closer link to Christmas.
>or classic jim carrey movies
His remake of the Grinch is not a classic. Do you think every movie that anti-gun, trump derangement syndrome homosexual makes is a classic? Remember when he wouldn't promote Kick Ass 2 because he suddenly decided all the pretend guns he was using were evil? He crapped out a lot of stinkers and Grinch is one of the worst. A remake is part of your childhood, huh? Fake white. Stay mad, Chang.
the last classic Jim Carrey is the Grinch. the last good Jim Career is Bruce Almighty in 2003. after that, i don't give a shit.
also, his first miss was The Majestic. came out one year after the Grinch and failed to live up to expectations for a Carrey movie, not to mention was a weak follow-up to the universally acclaimed Grinch (so acclaimed that they tried to recreate the success with Mike Myers cat in the Hat and failed utterly). the original cartoon is good, it was also foisted on us by boomers who had to choose between it and the stop motion Rudolph every year. Carrey Grinch slaps the FRICK out of the cartoon, and it's not close.
Both films you named are shit.
Do you have a link to a torrent of Tim and Eric Chrumbus special? Can't find one anywhere.
tpb.party, search chrimbus. I see nine seeds. You're welcome.
ty bro
Ah yes my based white man movies
In this board Harvey Weinstein is a hero.
Unironically. He was a fat, filthy israelite but he actually produced some decent and interesting films.
>having such a peabrain you can watch the same 15 hours of movie every year and not be bored
What do you think the average IQ in this thread is?
can you see reddit from up there on your high horse?
>DURR YOURE REDDIT FOR NOT BEING EASILY ENTERATINED
Why did so many high profile people within the industry hate these flicks?
Viggo literally refused to ever work with PJ again after he saw what he had done with the movies, Roger Ebert more or less called PJ a souless hack and Christopher Tolkien said that Jackson 'fundamentally misunderstood LOTR' by draining every ounce of beauty and seriousness from the story
they're all right. fellowship was the only good movie in the trilogy
viggo just said fellowship is clearly the best and towers/return were heavy on CGI and had some pacing issues. ebert was a youtube-level critic who was so far up his own ass you couldn't tell where he ended and roger roeper began. finally, chris tolkien was a salty boomer who sold his father's manuscripts to publishers who touched them up and sold them as finished stories.
>As far as I am concerned personally, I should welcome the idea of an animated motion picture, with all the risk of vulgarization; and that quite apart from the glint of money, though on the brink of retirement that is not an unpleasant possibility.
What did Tolkien mean by this?
Christopher isn't wrong, but the movies are their own thing and still amazing for what they managed to do. So he's still a seether for being unable to see the good parts of it despite them not being true to the books
>reeeee why aren’t these movies 1:1 adaptations of the books!!
Christopher and other Tolkiengays need to realize that no one wants songs or long walking segments in a movie.
i'd be okay with a 1:1 2d animated adaptation, but it would have to be a series, it couldn't be a film/s
>but it would have to be a series, it couldn't be a film/s
series are always dogshit. i know exactly the type of person you are. and you fricking disgust me with your shit taste.
a mini series would be fine, however
Kek, imagine if the movies had all the sudden bursts into songs that are in the books.
>tfw no one wants to share the load with me, not even on Christmas
The 4k is indeed too crisp, it's been DNR'd to shit, and it makes the aged CGI look 100x worse
Also FOTR extended, the other two theatrical>extended and it's not even close
Return
Extended
Release da river!
Too long since I watched those
- fellowship
- extended dvd, flipping it open like a book is a joy that doesn't get old
- helm's deep
- the perspective video showing how they made two guys the same height sitting 20 feet apart looking like a wizard and a hobbit sitting at the same table https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWMFpxkGO_s
movie
Fellowship
format (DVD/blu ray/4k)
(theatrical/extended)
DVD extended
scene
Charge of the Rohirrim or Aragorn's coronation
BTS fact
I dunno, it's been a while since I watched the BTS stuff but this thread has already mentioned some good ones
>I dunno, it's been a while since I watched the BTS stuff but this thread has already mentioned some good ones
Oh wait, does that picture of Viggo and Karl Urban buying gunpla in Tokyo count?
it must.
>merry and pippin being the first to join aragorn in his solo charge at the black gate
My favourite movie is Fellowship but the highs of RotK blow Fellowship out of the water
Americans have no actual culture so they watch these wizard and goblin movies because to them its the closest thing to tradition. Makes sense lol
Post hand and flag, Jing.
>"Americans have no culture"
>he says on a website created by an American, on a board primarily dedicated to discussing American media
Cope. I bet you come from some no-name shithole.
Probably bait but this place is just a ripoff of Japanese site 2chan
not sure what that guy was complaining about anyway, i'm a leaf who was discussing a british story adapted by a new zealand filmmaker kek
>he doesn't understand the LotR books as a parable for european history and christianity
it thinks it's people
>favorite movie: Two Towers
>favorite format: Original DVD box set (extended)
>favorite scene: The entire Helms Deep battle
>favorite BTS fact: For several years after LOTR's release Viggo would show up in bars and drunkenly recite Elvish poetry he had written
>ROTK is now 20 years old
>fellowship of the ring is nearly as old as Star Wars was when fellowship of the ring was released
goddamn bros, dat unrelenting march of time
Extended Fellowship has a blue/green filter which you can mostly remove by setting your TV to 'Warm' or whatever
The other two Blurays are fine though. The 4ks OTOH are dreadful DNR messes.
someone up above was talking about newer HD releases removing the filters. know anything about that?
movie
Fellowship, since it's the only good one, and there's no fat.
>format
Blu
>scene
Any scene with the Ringwraiths, Jackson could've done a Horror trilogy just with them killing people throughout Middle Earth.
>favourite BTS fact
Maybe the fact that Christopher Lee wanted Saruman to have more screentime in ROTK, not sure if he really got it in the Extended Editions or not.
Why did RotK have such shit CGI compared to other movies?