Is there a single shot of Fellowship of the Ring that isn't absolutely beautiful.
Jackson was at his absolute peak here.
It was the only one shot and color graded using analog film technology. Two Towers and ROTK switched to computers for post production. The actual cinematography is better too because there is so much less CGI in general.
amazing how much influence it had even at the time. Oblivion / Cyrodil was supposed to be a jungle province, but lotr was so popular they changed it to look more like middle earth
not for me I dont think. Experiencing the Lord of the Rings in theaters at 11 years old - having grown up with the books and cartoons - was a peak experience.
The Matrix was incredible in theaters. Jurassic Park and Avatar were great too. And Top Gun Maverick was unironically the best theater experience I’ve had in years.
Sauron was involved with making all the rings so he made the last one more powerful. He didn't need to make one,the fact he did this leads to his downfall .He wanted to tempt the others with rings of power then secretly make his own ring of power that could dominate them. He succeeded but the ring of power was also his weakness because he had to pour power into it to make it strong.
In the 90’s people treated tobacco like they treat saying the “n-word” now. That was the peak of the anti-tobacco hysteria with all the Truth ads claiming that smoking cigs is worse than the Holocaust.
I was 10 when I saw it and thought that it's the best movie in the world. Watched a few more times since, including this year, and I'm convinced that I had it right from the start.
Even though starting a thread with some opinionated statement is homosexualry, this one is true and important enough so that OP is not a gay.
Fully agree. Additionally, my mother gave me the first book and I vividly remember reading it in the winter in my candlelit room. That cozy feel I never experienced again in that intensity.
I rewatch the movies evert few years and they never fail to bring me back to those times.
Is there an EE without the piss color correction? I can only watch the theatrical DVDs because of the color, even though I like the scenes the EE adds and pace.
The soundtrack still gives me the chills bros, everything had so much soul in this
Even shit like the clothing fricking extras wore was amazing, so much care for the detail
People took it for granted. People glossed over the soul of Fellowship and nerdgasmed over the spectacle of the Helms Deep and Minas Tirith battles. TT, ROTK, and Spiderman helped usher in the CGI blockbuster era that turned into the capeshit era that led to the corporatization and end of soul in film. Now people dont even know what soul is. They look back on Fellowship and LOTR and cant understand why this passionate work of art was so special, they latch on to things like it being all white and we end up with people simping for soulless hackwork like The Northman for no reason. Art is lost and the people are lost with it.
I mean going off what the other anon said, ROP still looks like soulless garbage. It's just now people dont even realize that if it were all white it would still look like soulless garbage.
Exactly, my point is that the diverse casting is the least of ROP's problems. People hyper focus on it because its an easy surface level observation, but the whole thing is completely fricked on a soul level.
>you cant fix bad writting and sets etc. with diverse casting.
Tell me that when they're on the 6th season and Bezos is literally drown in money
Same shit happened with Wheel of Time and it has become an awarded show, about to release 2nd season and they're filming the 3rd
2 years ago
Anonymous
people watch low quality things all the time just look at marvel
>black elves or black dwarves
don't forget black hobbits and black Numenoreans.
It is an unforgivable sin.
Kangz of Power is complete garbage anti-white propaganda.
They hate the source material
They hate Tolkien
They hate white people
They hate you
Yes it is that simple
Yes they are evil
Yes they are conscious of all of this.
Do not watch this trash and allow despicable anti-white propaganda to be just broadcast with a shrug. They grow more brazen and bold every time they get away with it. Call it evil anti-white propaganda. Talk about this in public when it comes up. Don't acquiesce to evil, just because it's inconvenient or awkward to challenge it. It's the only way to stop this.
Nobody is going to miss you in the premiere, Cletus
The Leftist producers of this show hate white people and do not want any white person to live without constantly being in close proximity to blacks.
The white Leftists are mentally ill self-hating whites.
The non-white Leftists just hate white people.
They don't want there to even be a place in history or fantasy where white people can be seen or imagined without blacks. They want to lie to you and pretend the world has always been a multi-cultural ethnic melting pot, but that isn't true.
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is an Anglo-Saxon mythology, and they want to take that away from us, purely because they hate Tolkien and all white people.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Tolkien is for everyone
For the sake of argument lets assume that if there aren't mayor characters of different colors then it isn't for everyone and therefore racist.
Are they admitting Black Panther is a racist movie then?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Oh woah, you pointed out their hypocrisy, I bet you're really smart and have a big dick.
Helms Deep is still absolutely amazing and one of the best battles in cinema. Remember how GoT hyped up the long night to surpass Helms Deep and how it was not even close? Helms Deep is great even in the books too.
Sure its amazing but the killing Orcs bits are the weakest parts of the LOTR trilogy and Two Towers and ROTK spend entirely too much time focused on it. Two Towers especially feels like theres endless PG-13 hack and slashing towards the end and barely any Frodo, Sam, and Gollum-- the people you really want to be focusing on. Helm Deep might be one of the greatest action sequences ever filmed but Fellowship established a series that transcends the action genre and that battle really brings it back down to being an action film.
Very true. It consisted on numerous masterworks. Its almost like standing before an old cathedral where you can tell some nameless artisan poured his life's work into some unseen cornerstone.
> People glossed over the soul of Fellowship and nerdgasmed over the spectacle of the Helms Deep and Minas Tirith battles.
Spot on. Something I think has lessened the impact of those scenes with times is how overdone the epic choir soundtrack has become. Back when The Phantom Menace and LOTR did it it still was epic and fresh.
Probably one of the only movies I've watched where I wanted it to go on longer. I hate sitting in a theatre for 3 hours. I was like 15, had no idea what LOTR was until like a week before. Didn't expect so much kino.
Yeah, cinema peaked as an art form with this trilogy. It’s all been down hill from there with a few nice smaller bumps like TWBB and the Dark Knight series but each year the ratio of trite cash grab rehashes, remakes, sequels, prequels, and spin offs to genuine kino gets larger and larger.
The latest trend is for every flick to feature a stronk angry boss b***h female with severe penis envy. When they get tired of that they’ll probably move onto something much worse.
>a stronk angry boss b***h female with severe penis envy
They always make me so hard. My current HR manager is like that and she just makes me diamonds just talking to me. Her bf got her preggo, and she is starting to show. I do not know how much longer until there is an incident at work.
I'll get shit on for this but one small thing I don't like is that several actors of the main cast have this typical way in "anglo acting" of mumbling half of their lines to the point the only reason I can even make out what they're saying at certain parts it's because I've watched the movie so many times already.
The voice acting is generally awkward in some scenes too. Elrond for example, during his private talk with Gandalf at Rivendell, there's several moments between shots were his intonation has a sudden change.
a few lines are mumbled here and there. They should have done a better job with the audience being able to hear/understand what Sauron/the ring are saying when the ring-bearer is being tempted. Like you I only know what it's saying because of how many times I've watched but even still a lot of that is otherwise almost incomprehensible.
>They should have done a better job with the audience being able to hear/understand what Sauron/the ring are saying when the ring-bearer is being tempted.
I don't think this is what he's referring to, this was most definitely a stylistic choice which I think paid off well. It establishes Sauron as an ethereal, omniscient threat and the decadence of how overlaid Sauron's lines are make it seem as if he's speaking another language altogether even if the viewer can recognise some words here and there. I think it works better than having him very clearly spell out to the characters "Ooooh you are so very tempted by this ring ooooh you will serve as my peon ahhh"
yeah you're right, the temptation being that blunt does take away from its mystique. It does give the impression that only the ring-bearer truly knows what's being said.
I gotta agree its hard to hear what a lot of people say in LOTR. But the mumbly intonations and poetic dialogue kind of lend to that mystical/thoughtful tone that separates it from other sword and shield epics like Braveheart/Sparticus/etc so I like it.
I was ten when I saw Fellowship in the theaters. My dad took me to go even though I wasn't that interested. He hates all fantasy and sci-fi thinking that it's for gays, but he wanted me to see this movie. I loved it and read the books before The Two Towers was released the next year.
Fellowship was great. Two towers and ROTK dragged a lot. The grey-blue look of everything was also too much. Probably the best adaptation we ll ever get, though Jackson’s emphasis on teary eyed moments were excessive. Seeing that his other films kinda blow, I’m wondering what was it about this one that clicked.
Fellowship was great. Two towers and ROTK dragged a lot. The grey-blue look of everything was also too much. Probably the best adaptation we ll ever get, though Jackson’s emphasis on teary eyed moments were excessive. Seeing that his other films kinda blow, I’m wondering what was it about this one that clicked.
His early indie work is charming and stylish, but nothing to suggest he would be the one to create something like the LOTR trilogy
Jackson getting the LOTR gig is really one of the earliest examples of a literally who small time director being put in charge of a massive project. Nowadays that's pretty common since the directors can be easily controlled by the studio into doing whatever, but with LOTR it definitely felt like a creative decision to hire Jackson over someone more established. Imagine if a huge name like Spielberg or James Cameron directed LOTR, it wouldn't be remotely the same.
>LOTR it definitely felt like a creative decision to hire Jackson over someone more established
Well, the whole thing was his idea in the first place. This was before the blockbuster franchise era so studio heads werent sifting through IPs to make series like they do now. They wouldnt have made a LOTR trilogy without Jackson. I think the only reason New Line gave him the money to do it was because he had already starting planning out so much of it before even getting the green light.
Dude literally was the person asking New Line Cinema to do it and fighting to make it a 3 movie deal, they wanted to put everything in one movie.
People like to throw shit on him for the Hobbit but he fought against produces tooth and nail to stay as faithful as possible. They wanted to put Arwen in Helm's deep and the only reason they didn't was because Jackson refused, similarly other stuff.
>dull two-dimensional characters >over the top acting >predictable as frick story and fates of the characters >cringy slow motion shots >overly dramatic scenes for no reason
To be fair, the source material is overrated as well
I know this is bait but god I wish blockbusters had the balls to be as theatrical and dramatic as LOTR was. I dont understand why everything has to be snide and "above" sincere dramatics these days.
Confession time:
I always cry at the scene in RotK where they light the beacons to call Rohan for aid.
The part where Théoden has spent half a movie cursing Gondor and washing his hands of their situation, but then when the final moment of truth comes and he has to make his resolve, he dedices to hold his pledge and heed the call....
Frick man, I don't know, for me that scene feels like the very materialization of honor itself. It's unironically one of those moments only men will ever fully understand.
This reminds me of something Roger Ebert said about how the scenes that make you cry in movies aren't scenes of sadness and tragedy but scenes of honor, redemption, and kindness.
I know people like to shit on Return of the King (muh ghost army) but basically the entire second half of that movie is all about honor, redemption, sacrifice, kindness, etc. and it all works.
I understand completely. We all would like to think we, too, would have the honor and courage to answer the call if it ever came.
This reminds me of something Roger Ebert said about how the scenes that make you cry in movies aren't scenes of sadness and tragedy but scenes of honor, redemption, and kindness.
Adulthood is realizing Theoden is the most interesting character in the trilogy.
It will be the best show ever of all time. Just look at this beauty they got to play the role of [made up character just to expand the incredibly racist Tolkien lore]
lol not even close
It will be as shit as wheel of time while shielding every critizism with "muh diversity is more important that faithfulness or quality"
There is absolutely 0 chance. "The budget" isnt what made LOTR good, and if anything its what made the second and third movies worse than the first. LOTR was good because it had a true artist, a group of true artists, dedicating their lives and souls to the production of what was already itself one of the greatest works of art, made by a man who dedicated his life and soul to it. It is quit literally godly, on an individualistic, communal, and spiritual level. We are now getting a half billion dollar IP grab from a mega-corp online marketplace, who hired yes-men personally recommended by JJ Abrams, made in less than half the time it took Jackson to make his masterpiece, based on a fan-fiction non-canon story, in order to cash in on the hype of another fantasy series that also crashed and burned into soulless garbage. Not only that, but its also made in current year, in a time where we have not seen a truly great film out of Hollywood in over a decade. In what world do these pieces suggest a "worthy successor"?
B-b-but The Return of the King is the BEST of the trilology! How could you guys not like the scene where that one dude gives the speech and they all charge on their horsies???! It was so flipping epic!
Based and completely true.
Is there a single shot of Fellowship of the Ring that isn't absolutely beautiful.
Jackson was at his absolute peak here.
Fellowship is easily the best looking movie of the trilogy.
It was the only one shot and color graded using analog film technology. Two Towers and ROTK switched to computers for post production. The actual cinematography is better too because there is so much less CGI in general.
A movie like this could never be made today. Hell, no western medium can touch this today. It's peak entertainment completely free from wokeshit.
goddamn lotr is like the movie version of an early 2000s mmorpg, so good
amazing how much influence it had even at the time. Oblivion / Cyrodil was supposed to be a jungle province, but lotr was so popular they changed it to look more like middle earth
I know everyone watches the extended of this anyway but cutting all the Shire stuff in theatrical was a huge mistake
The world building is what I think makes it the best movie ever. The shire stuff is paramount to that
yeah no, literally nazi propaganda
What's wrong with nazis?
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>Verification not required.
dont be a gay
im happy that I was able to experience these movies during my formative years untainted by corporate/political influence.
Were there literally any better movies to experience in theaters? Maybe 2001? Thats the only one I can think of
not for me I dont think. Experiencing the Lord of the Rings in theaters at 11 years old - having grown up with the books and cartoons - was a peak experience.
millenials be like
have a nice day
not him but for me the only theater experience i had that came close to fellowship was matrix
The Matrix was incredible in theaters. Jurassic Park and Avatar were great too. And Top Gun Maverick was unironically the best theater experience I’ve had in years.
The Matrix
300
ncfom
twows
same. it was a better time before all this woke shit.
Same. We will never get anything like these again.
Me too anons, me too
Agreed but only the first one.
i remember frodo holding the ring in his hand in this poster????? is this a different poster or is it the mandela effect again?
1 google search away you fricking schizo
i still dont know why saurons ring is more powerful than all the others combined and why he needed one in the first place.
moron. They literally explain it. All the rings have crazy powers. The one ring is "just" the ring that controls those other rings plus their bearers.
Sauron was involved with making all the rings so he made the last one more powerful. He didn't need to make one,the fact he did this leads to his downfall .He wanted to tempt the others with rings of power then secretly make his own ring of power that could dominate them. He succeeded but the ring of power was also his weakness because he had to pour power into it to make it strong.
brap
It's certainly the best of the trilogy. It's damn comfy
I think the most annoying thing about the LOTR movies is how pipeweed was treated as DUDE WEED LMAO instead of tobacco like it's supposed to be.
In the 90’s people treated tobacco like they treat saying the “n-word” now. That was the peak of the anti-tobacco hysteria with all the Truth ads claiming that smoking cigs is worse than the Holocaust.
I was 10 when I saw it and thought that it's the best movie in the world. Watched a few more times since, including this year, and I'm convinced that I had it right from the start.
Even though starting a thread with some opinionated statement is homosexualry, this one is true and important enough so that OP is not a gay.
Everyone experiences it
>a rings of power thread died for this racist dog whistle thread
good
it was the best american film of 2001 alongside Shrek
*harry potter
ftfy
Get better taste in movies, dumb capeshitter
capeshit?
Fully agree. Additionally, my mother gave me the first book and I vividly remember reading it in the winter in my candlelit room. That cozy feel I never experienced again in that intensity.
I rewatch the movies evert few years and they never fail to bring me back to those times.
Reading to candlelight hurts my eyes
chudcels eternaly seething over RoP
>projection
We're celebrating a great trilogy here. The only seething is from (you), shill.
FOTR EE is the best fantasy movie of all time.
Is there an EE without the piss color correction? I can only watch the theatrical DVDs because of the color, even though I like the scenes the EE adds and pace.
The 4k UHD Blu-rays fixed the color grading and are now considered the best-looking versions of these movies
seconding the 4K UHD Blu-ray. No stupid filters, looks fantastic
the only problem with Fellowship is that it dampens the whole trilogy by being better than the following two.
The two sequels are still decent action movies
100%.
The soundtrack still gives me the chills bros, everything had so much soul in this
Even shit like the clothing fricking extras wore was amazing, so much care for the detail
People took it for granted. People glossed over the soul of Fellowship and nerdgasmed over the spectacle of the Helms Deep and Minas Tirith battles. TT, ROTK, and Spiderman helped usher in the CGI blockbuster era that turned into the capeshit era that led to the corporatization and end of soul in film. Now people dont even know what soul is. They look back on Fellowship and LOTR and cant understand why this passionate work of art was so special, they latch on to things like it being all white and we end up with people simping for soulless hackwork like The Northman for no reason. Art is lost and the people are lost with it.
Fellowship did such a good job laying the foundation for the whole trilogy that it deserves the lion's share of the credit for how it turned out
This. morons nowadays get buttmad there're black elves or black dwarves ruining the experience for everybody.
Frick off shill
You don't need to be upset, just don't be racist
I mean going off what the other anon said, ROP still looks like soulless garbage. It's just now people dont even realize that if it were all white it would still look like soulless garbage.
you cant fix bad writting and sets etc. with diverse casting.
Exactly, my point is that the diverse casting is the least of ROP's problems. People hyper focus on it because its an easy surface level observation, but the whole thing is completely fricked on a soul level.
>you cant fix bad writting and sets etc. with diverse casting.
Tell me that when they're on the 6th season and Bezos is literally drown in money
Same shit happened with Wheel of Time and it has become an awarded show, about to release 2nd season and they're filming the 3rd
people watch low quality things all the time just look at marvel
>black elves or black dwarves
don't forget black hobbits and black Numenoreans.
It is an unforgivable sin.
Kangz of Power is complete garbage anti-white propaganda.
They hate the source material
They hate Tolkien
They hate white people
They hate you
Yes it is that simple
Yes they are evil
Yes they are conscious of all of this.
Do not watch this trash and allow despicable anti-white propaganda to be just broadcast with a shrug. They grow more brazen and bold every time they get away with it. Call it evil anti-white propaganda. Talk about this in public when it comes up. Don't acquiesce to evil, just because it's inconvenient or awkward to challenge it. It's the only way to stop this.
no, you're trying to sell me your own moronic world view by means of hyperbole but i ain't buying. so frick off
The Leftist producers of this show hate white people and do not want any white person to live without constantly being in close proximity to blacks.
The white Leftists are mentally ill self-hating whites.
The non-white Leftists just hate white people.
They don't want there to even be a place in history or fantasy where white people can be seen or imagined without blacks. They want to lie to you and pretend the world has always been a multi-cultural ethnic melting pot, but that isn't true.
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is an Anglo-Saxon mythology, and they want to take that away from us, purely because they hate Tolkien and all white people.
>Tolkien is for everyone
For the sake of argument lets assume that if there aren't mayor characters of different colors then it isn't for everyone and therefore racist.
Are they admitting Black Panther is a racist movie then?
Oh woah, you pointed out their hypocrisy, I bet you're really smart and have a big dick.
Nobody is going to miss you in the premiere, Cletus
Helms Deep is still absolutely amazing and one of the best battles in cinema. Remember how GoT hyped up the long night to surpass Helms Deep and how it was not even close? Helms Deep is great even in the books too.
Amazing part of an otherwise pretty average movie
>tfw no Elladan and Elrohir Rules of Natureing Uruk-Hai left and right
So sad they cut that from the movie
Sure its amazing but the killing Orcs bits are the weakest parts of the LOTR trilogy and Two Towers and ROTK spend entirely too much time focused on it. Two Towers especially feels like theres endless PG-13 hack and slashing towards the end and barely any Frodo, Sam, and Gollum-- the people you really want to be focusing on. Helm Deep might be one of the greatest action sequences ever filmed but Fellowship established a series that transcends the action genre and that battle really brings it back down to being an action film.
The Northman has potential. It was squandered, but I’m convinced the potential for something really good was there.
Northman *was* really good, anon.
It really, really wasn't. And saying so only diminishes the understanding of truly great art like Fellowship.
filtered by norfman
Very true. It consisted on numerous masterworks. Its almost like standing before an old cathedral where you can tell some nameless artisan poured his life's work into some unseen cornerstone.
> People glossed over the soul of Fellowship and nerdgasmed over the spectacle of the Helms Deep and Minas Tirith battles.
Spot on. Something I think has lessened the impact of those scenes with times is how overdone the epic choir soundtrack has become. Back when The Phantom Menace and LOTR did it it still was epic and fresh.
even tho i was only 8 when the movies came out i remember the insane hype for rotk
all of my friends had the two towers and rotk ps2 games from EA
The ROTK game is pure gaming kino. Best movie inspired game ever
That's spiderman 2
Senility sounds comfy, Anon. I look forward to it.
Probably one of the only movies I've watched where I wanted it to go on longer. I hate sitting in a theatre for 3 hours. I was like 15, had no idea what LOTR was until like a week before. Didn't expect so much kino.
My mom got me the books and Fellowship on VHS for my birthday when I was 13. Never asked for it, she just knew.
Yes. Subhumans, homosexuals and their subhuman homosexual israelite masters simply do not understand. They’ll never take this from us.
Yeah, cinema peaked as an art form with this trilogy. It’s all been down hill from there with a few nice smaller bumps like TWBB and the Dark Knight series but each year the ratio of trite cash grab rehashes, remakes, sequels, prequels, and spin offs to genuine kino gets larger and larger.
The latest trend is for every flick to feature a stronk angry boss b***h female with severe penis envy. When they get tired of that they’ll probably move onto something much worse.
>a stronk angry boss b***h female with severe penis envy
They always make me so hard. My current HR manager is like that and she just makes me diamonds just talking to me. Her bf got her preggo, and she is starting to show. I do not know how much longer until there is an incident at work.
Its up there, though i enjoyed Das Boot more in the theaters
I'll get shit on for this but one small thing I don't like is that several actors of the main cast have this typical way in "anglo acting" of mumbling half of their lines to the point the only reason I can even make out what they're saying at certain parts it's because I've watched the movie so many times already.
The voice acting is generally awkward in some scenes too. Elrond for example, during his private talk with Gandalf at Rivendell, there's several moments between shots were his intonation has a sudden change.
a few lines are mumbled here and there. They should have done a better job with the audience being able to hear/understand what Sauron/the ring are saying when the ring-bearer is being tempted. Like you I only know what it's saying because of how many times I've watched but even still a lot of that is otherwise almost incomprehensible.
>They should have done a better job with the audience being able to hear/understand what Sauron/the ring are saying when the ring-bearer is being tempted.
I don't think this is what he's referring to, this was most definitely a stylistic choice which I think paid off well. It establishes Sauron as an ethereal, omniscient threat and the decadence of how overlaid Sauron's lines are make it seem as if he's speaking another language altogether even if the viewer can recognise some words here and there. I think it works better than having him very clearly spell out to the characters "Ooooh you are so very tempted by this ring ooooh you will serve as my peon ahhh"
yeah you're right, the temptation being that blunt does take away from its mystique. It does give the impression that only the ring-bearer truly knows what's being said.
I gotta agree its hard to hear what a lot of people say in LOTR. But the mumbly intonations and poetic dialogue kind of lend to that mystical/thoughtful tone that separates it from other sword and shield epics like Braveheart/Sparticus/etc so I like it.
I was ten when I saw Fellowship in the theaters. My dad took me to go even though I wasn't that interested. He hates all fantasy and sci-fi thinking that it's for gays, but he wanted me to see this movie. I loved it and read the books before The Two Towers was released the next year.
The trilogy bored me to treats.
it's ok but definitely overhyped here
I heard they are working on a version with updated quips and a 70s dad rock soundtrack just for zoomers like you
Fellowship was great. Two towers and ROTK dragged a lot. The grey-blue look of everything was also too much. Probably the best adaptation we ll ever get, though Jackson’s emphasis on teary eyed moments were excessive. Seeing that his other films kinda blow, I’m wondering what was it about this one that clicked.
>The grey-blue look of everything was also too much
Thats only on one of the bluray releases.
>Seeing that his other films kinda blow
as bloated as it is, I like King Kong. Everything else he's done since then is fricking garbage
His early indie work is charming and stylish, but nothing to suggest he would be the one to create something like the LOTR trilogy
Jackson getting the LOTR gig is really one of the earliest examples of a literally who small time director being put in charge of a massive project. Nowadays that's pretty common since the directors can be easily controlled by the studio into doing whatever, but with LOTR it definitely felt like a creative decision to hire Jackson over someone more established. Imagine if a huge name like Spielberg or James Cameron directed LOTR, it wouldn't be remotely the same.
>LOTR it definitely felt like a creative decision to hire Jackson over someone more established
Well, the whole thing was his idea in the first place. This was before the blockbuster franchise era so studio heads werent sifting through IPs to make series like they do now. They wouldnt have made a LOTR trilogy without Jackson. I think the only reason New Line gave him the money to do it was because he had already starting planning out so much of it before even getting the green light.
Dude literally was the person asking New Line Cinema to do it and fighting to make it a 3 movie deal, they wanted to put everything in one movie.
People like to throw shit on him for the Hobbit but he fought against produces tooth and nail to stay as faithful as possible. They wanted to put Arwen in Helm's deep and the only reason they didn't was because Jackson refused, similarly other stuff.
only good LOTR movie, the rest are boring except few moments.
Meh, the show is going to be way better
Love the Lord of the Rings. Still not going to watch The Shills of Amazon
>dull two-dimensional characters
>over the top acting
>predictable as frick story and fates of the characters
>cringy slow motion shots
>overly dramatic scenes for no reason
To be fair, the source material is overrated as well
I know this is bait but god I wish blockbusters had the balls to be as theatrical and dramatic as LOTR was. I dont understand why everything has to be snide and "above" sincere dramatics these days.
Actually it's Jurassic Park.
Confession time:
I always cry at the scene in RotK where they light the beacons to call Rohan for aid.
The part where Théoden has spent half a movie cursing Gondor and washing his hands of their situation, but then when the final moment of truth comes and he has to make his resolve, he dedices to hold his pledge and heed the call....
Frick man, I don't know, for me that scene feels like the very materialization of honor itself. It's unironically one of those moments only men will ever fully understand.
I understand completely. We all would like to think we, too, would have the honor and courage to answer the call if it ever came.
This reminds me of something Roger Ebert said about how the scenes that make you cry in movies aren't scenes of sadness and tragedy but scenes of honor, redemption, and kindness.
I know people like to shit on Return of the King (muh ghost army) but basically the entire second half of that movie is all about honor, redemption, sacrifice, kindness, etc. and it all works.
Adulthood is realizing Theoden is the most interesting character in the trilogy.
i realized that as an adolescent though
His speech before the army at Pelennor fields and the charge… chills down my spine every fricking time.
Absolutely right.
Im reading the books right now and it's moronic how much jackson left out
did you know there was a 5th fricking hobbit in on frodos scheme?
[farting noises]
beyond the visuals it's merely decent
OH N-
galadriel sequence was cringe. also frodo had like 2 fakeouts in the film
Do you guys think the new Amazon show will be a worthy successor to one of the best movie trilogies of all time? It certainly has the budget
It will be the best show ever of all time. Just look at this beauty they got to play the role of [made up character just to expand the incredibly racist Tolkien lore]
Maybe if the studio cucks to Peter Jackson and real Tolkien scholars for a second season after season 1 bombing.
It has the same chances of being kino as any other movie. So 0% since it was made after 2008.
lol not even close
It will be as shit as wheel of time while shielding every critizism with "muh diversity is more important that faithfulness or quality"
Imagine comparing a SJW disaster that is Rings of Woke with the masterpiece that is the LoTR series.
Tell me you live on a trailer park without telling me you live on a trailer park
Tell me you will never be a woman.
LOTR has always been woke.
>midgets save the world
>I am no man
>Tolkien openly denounced antisemitism
There is absolutely 0 chance. "The budget" isnt what made LOTR good, and if anything its what made the second and third movies worse than the first. LOTR was good because it had a true artist, a group of true artists, dedicating their lives and souls to the production of what was already itself one of the greatest works of art, made by a man who dedicated his life and soul to it. It is quit literally godly, on an individualistic, communal, and spiritual level. We are now getting a half billion dollar IP grab from a mega-corp online marketplace, who hired yes-men personally recommended by JJ Abrams, made in less than half the time it took Jackson to make his masterpiece, based on a fan-fiction non-canon story, in order to cash in on the hype of another fantasy series that also crashed and burned into soulless garbage. Not only that, but its also made in current year, in a time where we have not seen a truly great film out of Hollywood in over a decade. In what world do these pieces suggest a "worthy successor"?
movie was too fast paced. my only complaint
B-b-but The Return of the King is the BEST of the trilology! How could you guys not like the scene where that one dude gives the speech and they all charge on their horsies???! It was so flipping epic!