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its not the production fault that sauron used hot water in the washing machine when he laundered his armor
Why didn't he just get out the breastplate stretcher?
Money laundering and inflation. Hollywood budget numbers are less credible than the holocausts
This woman, Kate Hawley was the chief costume designer for the series and won a fricking emmy for it.
But those are armours, not costumes. Who is the chief armour designer?
Someone subordinate to her, working with her approval, you pedantic moron.
Ah, and there I thought I was onto something. Sad.
kys mongoloid
no she didn't, she was just nominated
>also designed the costumes for Edge of Tomorrow
>the costumes and especially the mecha designs were OBJECTIVELY the worst part of that Cruise missile kino
what a fricking hack
Anita Sarkesian phenotype
Somebody needs to redesign her mongoloid face. Preferably with a baseball bat.
she's got that stephanie meyer energy
>and won a fricking emmy for it
That means literally nothing these days.
They have literal racial/minority quota restrictions to follow when deciding who deserves an award.
It isn't merit-based at all.
Wait, the Emmy nominations already happened?
>her
I will watch S2 just to ding my bell at everything
Now adjust for inflation
like $170 million, still way less. the reason lotr is so good is because everyone took their jobs very seriously and were passionate, but blindly throwing money at a project doesn't work
>like $170 million
>still way less
Nope
ROP cost $1b for five seasons, so $200m/season
ROP s1 = 9h so 22m/hour
FOTR= 3h so 57m/hour
TLDR
LOTR movies cost x2.5 more per hour than ROP
inb4 cope
>so $200m/season
I assume you have some source to back that particular allocation up.
>Provide a source for $1b divided by five
So you know for a fact that it's all been allocated ahead of time? That they have no plans on adjusting the budget? That it's being allocated equally? That it's even all production budget? That you are in fact not lying about it being earmarked for all five seasons?
But since it took you that long to respond with a deflection I'll just assume you're full of shit, and every further cope will reinforce that.
They spent $1b on the first season
And it looked like shit lmao
>FOTR= 3h so 57m/hour
Wrong. There is a 6 hour cut of Fellowship, so 28m/hour
>Cost of one 3 hour movie 20 years ago vs cost of 50 hours of TV today
>One is in battle armour the other in a sailors outfit
>one had been at war for centuries the other hasn't experienced war for centuries
Why do chuds have to be so disingenuous about literally everything?
OP gay in shambles
>spend ludicrous amounts of money on something that is supposed to last 3 seasons at absolute minimum, and ideally more than 5
>don't bother spending money on props that will get reused
the absolute state of /rope/ gays
>it's meant to look like shit
who's really being disingenuous here?
>50 hours of TV today
That's $20 million an hour.
kek, what a pathetic cope
leaving aside that the LotR trilogy clocks in 10+ hours, lemme ask this - do they have to make new armor for each hour of production?
>leaving aside that the LotR trilogy clocks in 10+ hours
And costs $300m in total
So the OP image split the cost up for a single movie to compare against the cost of 5 seasons/50hours
Again just a typical chud move since they are not able to present an argument that isn't disingenuous at literally every point.
>5 seasons
You think it will make it that far?
>You think it will make it that far?
Of course, why wouldn't it?
They will alternate between a season of ROP/WOT every fall for the next decade so there is always a high fantasy show on Prime in the runup to Christmas
>5 seasons/50hours
The sirdukaur aren't sending their best.
>So the OP image split the cost up for a single movie to compare against the cost of 5 seasons
You think everything is already paid for? Kek.
>the other hasn't experienced war for centuries
That's usually the period where gear gets increasingly lavish because it's now just being used for peawienering
it looks like shit. your points are all irrelevant.
>Why do chuds have to be so disingenuous
>uses the word "chud" unironically
>whines about being disingenuous
Oh, the irony.
>uses the word "chud" unironically
Completely normal thing to do
>Searching for posts that contain ‘chud’. Returning only first 1000 of 123954 results found.
and that's on Cinemaphile alone. You're exposing yourself as a newbie
>it looks terrible on purpose
kek. Is this the level of cope Amazon shills have now reached?
>it’s supposed to look cheap and bad, chud
why is this gay getting bullied? he made good points
replies are not even relevant to what he said. Why is this board filled with brain-dead morons unable to read 3 sentences?
because he’s a homosexual
because it is an elaborate cope trying to find lore to explain away the simple fact of why one costume looks good and the looks bad. We all know that the costumes were better in LotR than RoPe. Trying to find a lore reason to explain it is cope, when the simple and most obvious answer is just poor planning, poor decision-making, poor casting, and poor execution. RoPe is a corporate vanity project for a multi-billion dollar international corporation, full of mandatory DEI corporate diversity hires and designed to launder money. not inspired by true love of the source material.
LotR is the most inspired work of passion to be made in Hollywood in the past 23 years.
Literally every thing you said is wrong you fricking mongoloid
I can count the number of good posts starting with "Why do chuds" on zero hands
is that way, thanks
https://armstreet.com/store/armor-suits/
For the movies two people linked about 12 million rings by hand to make the armor and wore their fingerprints off in the process. That right there shows the difference between a labor of love like LotR and money laundering slop like RoP
The same people spent months making the ROP armour and weapons too.
chainmail on the head is so fricking stupid I hope art directors and costumer departments stop with this awful meme
You mean mail coif that was used for centuries
el morono gigante..
Frick you, fatass!
Looks like shit
Somebody please add the caption.
if only I knew what the caption was
>The same people
ship of theseus
wonder how many people who worked at lotr are still in weta.
This is the only armor from the series that I liked tbh
It was at least made well, but you can tell about zero thought went into the concept.
what is supposed to be wrong in this pic?
Use your eyes to see
It’s supposed to be mail armor but they just cheaped out and used a cloth or rubber section with a mail pattern printed on it.
I thought Weta pioneered chainmail made of PVC pipe painted silver.
Braveheart was literally just spraypainted wool sweaters
What has the trilogy ever done for the cause? NOTHING! Thank you daddy Bezos and the gay Black person elves.
Remember When the chuds had a MAGA rally in Numenor?
>Dey Terk Err Jerbs
>elves arr takin err jerbs!!
Comedy gold
It's a serious issue. Elves work harder, live forever and don't care about money.
why weren't the chuds diverse?
>Dem ELFS TOOK Err JURRBZ!!
Was this the end of the line for Cope-RoPe sisters?
Was that an actual set from the show!? It looks like a theme park! I've seen better sets on Star Trek TOS!
>Was that an actual set from the show!?
It is.
Yes, everytime I hear that one Black Eyed Peas song.
They will server you a literal pile of shit on a plate that some Black person just squeezed out of his ass in the back alley and tell you it's Beef Wellington and charge you $hundreds and if you don't like it you're a racist online troll Russian bot or some shit.
jews are literally the most savage pranksters in human history, i almost admire them
>Remember Rings of Power?
I wish I didn't
Ain’t it the truth.
Medieval armour is better than ancient armour. What of it?
>It's bad on purpose
kekekekek
Cannot believe this is the new cope.
Numerous was suppose to be ahead of it's time with better men, armor, weapons, etc.
Also how do you explain elves and dwarves, then?
This. Numenor is supposed to be so advanced both in technique and magic, that it's a genuine question whether or not they were using steam-powered or internal-combustion engines or flying airships. It seems that this was retconned in the Akallabeth, but not entirely since they are described as using metal ships which were ugly but indestructible.
Grim
I dont get it borrowmir is wearing armour for fighting and the other is wearing armour for what sailing? casual wear?
It looks cheap and dorky.
He's clearly going to a game of thrones themed party, anon.
>armour for what sailing? casual wear?
You don't wear metal armour for sailing (unlike for naval combat like in case of boarding), let alone as casual wear. Ceremonial suits are perfectly reasonable, but was that an occasion warranting that?
Why is it always played for laughs when people get fricked out of their jobs by cheap immigrants anyways?
Doesn't really seem like a laughing matter.
You just dont understand the masterfully subtle subtext of rings of power.
it's ok, ai will be "dey tok r jerbs: white collar edition" and it will be hilarious following the last 40 years.
If it wasn't hilarious to them, then why are they such fans of it
learn to code chud
Then they suddenly care when AI came for their jobs, weird that.
Why won't they learn to code, bros? I thought that was the best solution?
just want the "learn to code" to die off. frick off my industry. getting filled with shitters and harder and harder to hire competent devs every day
hopefully AI will scare off the next hoard of morons
WEAKEST GONDORIAN vs most powerful numenorian
>Remember Rings of Power?
I did when Amazon said it will now show ads on Prime unless you cough up another $3 for ad-free. Amazon may continue to suck upon my balls.
>Remember Rings of Power?
Not until just now. Do people actually watch this slop?
I watch all sorts of slop and I almost dropped RoP. Yeah it's fricking bad. I'd rather watch modern Family Guy or something.
>Amazon acquired the television rights for The Lord of the Rings from the Tolkien Estate in November 2017, making a five-season production commitment worth AT LEAST US$1 billion
>While discussing Season 2 plans for The Rings of Power (the series is reportedly set to run for five seasons), Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke revealed that ultimately the first season cost nearly $700 million dollars.
It's gonna cost way more than a billion if they do 5 seasons. Admittedly, a lot of those 700 mill went towards rights and other one time expenses, but I still do not believe they can do all the rest on just 300 million.
They didn't aquire the TV rights. They aquired the "everything except the original books forever" rights shortly after Christopher Tolkien (who was against it) died.
If you want to do anything related to LOTR, you gotta go to Amazon and not the Tolkien family now.
>They didn't aquire the TV rights
>They aquired the "everything except the original books forever"
Amazon have the full and exclusive television rights to 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' books. So they can make TV shows forever using anything from those books, whether direct adaptations of the title stories or some near oc based on a footnote.
A Swedish/Saudi games company now own the movie rights and they are quite chummy with Amazon since they payed them alot of money for shit like Tomb Raider rights (this really was just a pay off to make them play by their rules regarding the upcoming WB LOTR movies)
That's depressing.
No, they only have TV rights and it's for 8+ episode shows, they got them directly from the estate, all other rights are held by Embracer, who are licensing them out to WB / New Line, for example, (who have a movie in production).
I meant to respond to this anon
Fortunately Embracer has recently completely shit the bed, so in a few years they might be forced to sell the rights
Their fault.
Frickers started spending shitton buying lot of studios without even starting to release games
They're responsible for murdering DRG so I'll cheerfully piss on their grave
>shortly after Christopher Tolkien (who was against it) died.
Afraid not anon, his family had him declared moronic and he lived to see amazon get the rights. He should have arranged things decades ago to stop that happening, the easiest way to just make it public domain, but he didn't
All this money wasted just to take a fat dump on Tolkien's work. God, I hate leftoids so much.
The funny part is Amazon is investing more money for the flop of a show with a season 2. It has to be a money-laundering scam because nothing else explains why they freely throw away so much money on something the Tolkien fan base clearly does not want.
>something the Tolkien fan base clearly does not want.
The show isn't made for them, producers have explicitly stated it's 'for people who haven't read the books or watched the movies'
That's the standard MO now with doing remakes or sequels of stuff with a pre-existing fan base, take a shit all over it to expel the fanbase, and seek to bring in a "young social progressive" replacement fan base.
And WHEN said shit turns out to flop, they attack the original fan base they alienated and expelled for not being supportive.
Also nothing else really explains the level of incompetence regarding the costumes.
Like those neil marshall b-movies with a fraction of the budget and a total of 5 extras somehow look more convincing.
most of rop buget is packing the amazon studio lots and various tech, equipment etc into the show. thry claim losses and get tv show largest budget ever stories for promotion and all their studio expansion written off.
first season of rop costs 460 for 9 hours of footage. Lotr trilogy costs 280m for 9 hours of footage but adjusting for inflation the cost will be roughly the same as rop s1. They costed basically the same but op's pic implies one costed 10 times more which is just dishonest and show's your chud bias. Also, it's unfair to compare full battle armour with casual outfit. Another chud moment
Counterpoint, which completely defeats everything you just typed:
>A main character's costume looks noticeably bad.
End of the argument.
>A main character's costume looks noticeably bad.
it doesn't. Checkmate atheists
It looks horrendous.
no, it doesn't
He's saying the concepts of "good" and "bad" can't exist without god, there would just be what is.
>WE WUZ KWANGZ OF NUMENOR AN' SHIET!!
God Black folk are ugly. I can smell that pic.
Why is she wearing a scale mail shirt that looks identical to the scale mail armor? Shouldn't it be chain mail armor underneath? Frick, if they were that lazy, why not just have everybody wear t-shirts with armor drawings on them
>Why is she wearing a scale mail shirt
Amazon is a small family-owned company, please understand.
>Why is she wearing a scale mail shirt that looks identical to the scale mail armor?
Because you wear clothes under armour and if you have money then you could design it to whatever you want for style points. People did it with leather and other materials all the time.
>it-it isn't supposed to be an armor at all, chud!
that horse looks depressed af
From literally the first shot released I knew it was going to be bad. Elves with short hair shows they just couldn't be bothered, or had been so mismanaged they'd run out of money for wigs. In hindsight it seems both is partially true.
The rings of power super fans video fricking haunts me. At least I know no matter what I do with my life nothing I will do will be this cringe.
Will they do a S2 "review," bros??
Of course, how else will the npcs know who to clap for?
I'm curious if they'll double down on such blatantly paid influencers, given how it backfired last time.
Is it too early for them to try a
>well last time was bad, BUT WE'RE SO BACK!
campaign?
>influencers
Oh, because these guys have some kind of following? They aren't some randos?
they're randos that they gave fake titles to in order to pretend they were influencers.
funny thing is when asked months after getting paid by Amazon the black chick here admitted to never watching ROPe cause she was more into HOTD. they could not even get their paid shills to watch their fricking garbage tv show.
She was so excited about her gurrl galadriel she forgot all about it.
>"We think this show is fantastic."
>"Have you actually watched it?"
>"Erm...yeees, sure."
What a massive scam. Finding out they'd only seen a bare minimum of footage was pathetic.
rings of pooer
>spend a gazillion dollars on an IP
>don’t use any of the beloved characters from IP
This shit was a total snooze fest I couldn’t stay awake no matter how hard I tried
>don’t use any of the beloved characters from IP
They are including TommyB in s2, guaranteed kino
homosexual
diferent ages
What always makes me chuckle when it comes to diverse prequels is that you know some ethnic cleansing must've happened between the prequel and the sequel, but nobody ever addresses it.
Rings of Power is technically a prequel to Lord of the Rings, and while it is diverse, Lord of the Rings is like the peak of white supremacist films. Not a single character aside from the evil pirates that are on the screen for 30 seconds at most is non-white. And all the whites hired for the film are intentionally blue or green eyed. A Birth of a Nation was more diverse than Lord of the Rings.
I wonder what happened in the transition. Who killed all the non-whites between Rings of Power and Lord of the Rings?
diabetus
>gandalf, did I ever tell you about the black numenorians?
>I did, didn't I? Well, old friend, I'm afraid I lied.
>You see, they aren't actually the remnants of corrupted men that went to Sauron
>The truth is, that we both knew that the last alliance was going to have casualties, and we both knew who we'd rather soak those casualties up
>so when I said they went to Sauron, I was speaking from a certain point of view. They went over to him and got pulped harder than Aragorn's wiener after he saw my daughter in the bath
>the fountains of black blood the tales speak of? We weren't talking about orcs, I can tell you that much.
>What a sight it was, old friend. Gil'Galad was so engrossed that he didn't spot that Sauron had ran out of the swarthy bastards until it was too late, and by then I think Sauron had got a bit too used to seeing blackened bodies if you catch my dirft.
>Evil incarnate he may be, but for that deed he was a good friend.
Gets me everytime.
Why is Batman wearing googles and why is his mask fitted too far up on his face? He can barely see through the eye holes
WB fricked up with BvS costume designers so they hired hacks for Justice League. That's why Batman looks worse overall.
if you really get into the books the Númenóreans were legit white supremacists. they used to sail all over the place oppressing Bi-Poc folks and enslaving them and getting tribute from the coastal people.
Amazon had gold on their hands a story that matches their ideology perfectly. it blows my mind none of this lore was incorporated into the show instead Númenór is depicted being diverse for some reason.
The women who wrote the show and were in charge of casting do not read the lore.
The meeting went about like this:
>Okay we've got another character here, the daughter of the King of Numenor, who will be the Queen when he dies.
>>We should make her a strong black woman!
>Great idea, Taniqua. Moving on. Okay, we've got the Queen of the Dwarves...
>The women who wrote the show and were in charge of casting do not read the lore.
The showrunner of season 1 were 2 guys and one woman.
don't contradict me, Amazon-shill.
The showrunners are both men but Lindsay Webber (exec producer) is the one who keeps them in check with what the studio wants.
All three of these worked for JJ/Bad Robot
>NNúmenor was settled by Edain of the House of Hador, who were golden-haired and tall, with fair skin and blue eyes
Close enough
Sean Bean Boromir? My husbando. Would cook him breakfast, send him off to battle with lunch, cook his dinner when he got home and then spread my legs for, every day
what if they started leaning into it and transitioned into going full comedy mode? like stop taking this seriously at all, hire rob schneider and whoever. make it a parody.
with the limited material they have available the smarter thing would be to do a hard reset of the entire show. have it take place at some other point with new characters and just wrap up the story they already started with season 2
They could have done this with the huge timeline available to them in the Second Age to work with, but they fricked it up by time crunching everything that took millennia down to like a year.
>this shit again
1 billion for the RIGHTS of LOTR, not the budget of the show.
I gave it an honest shot until I got up to this episode and stopped completely, utter shit.
THE SEA IS ALWAYS RIGHT
Probably was like this in the lore. Numenoreans were like Atlantis or some shit.
You meme but the Numenoreans literally had steam powered ships made out of metal