I'm moreso questioning the structure's integrity. How does it not just collapse on itself? That's a ton of heavy stone and there's nothing actually supporting its weight.
Fellowship fricking revolutionized CGI in film. Name ONE movie in the last 20 years that has a better CGI shot than shit. Sure Gandalf looks a little displayed on the greenscreen but every other part is fricking perfect.
this is middle-earthspeak for go to hell
and i love this scene
Moria is my favorite part of Lord of the Rings. I love every part of it. The mystery and fear of going there, then the resignation about it being the only way. The spooky walk through long dark tunnels for days and days. And the Balrog showing up, Gandalf revealing his powers and eventually falling was an epic climax. Plus Gandalf fighting the Balrog made the Two Towers opening the best of any movie I'd seen at the time. Most of the battles and events after and to the end of the story never reached that same sheer awe factor again.
don't listen to this contrarian zoomer homosexual that worships anime and capeshit if he can't appreciate lotr like it's not even in question shit's a fricking masterpiece especially the first movie
Rohirrim horses are fricking gigachads in the book too. They smash through a wall of one hundred thousand orcs and nearly route the army until the Mumakil show up as unexpected reinforcements.
1 year ago
Anonymous
I was kind of disappointed they didn't show off Shadofax more. It would have been kino to see a Mearas in action.
sadly this is true, they could've made it better
the game The Third Age kinda fixed it
but i still afree with
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Moria is my favorite part of Lord of the Rings. I love every part of it. The mystery and fear of going there, then the resignation about it being the only way. The spooky walk through long dark tunnels for days and days. And the Balrog showing up, Gandalf revealing his powers and eventually falling was an epic climax. Plus Gandalf fighting the Balrog made the Two Towers opening the best of any movie I'd seen at the time. Most of the battles and events after and to the end of the story never reached that same sheer awe factor again.
>i have the high ground
1 year ago
Anonymous
>The spooky walk through long dark tunnels for days and days.
Never really felt like that in the movie. An hour, tops.
Right after the entrance closes and they start walking, Gandalf does say that it's a four day journey to the other side
No, it didn't. It looked fantastic. I doubt anyone would be impressed by your own portrayal of angelic, demigods doing battle with superhuman abilities
Cinemaphile always has the worst takes when it comes to LOTR, doesn't it?
Even Cinemaphile doesn't have stupid-as-shit takes when it comes to this children fantasy novel.
Occasionally the lorejaks of Cinemaphile come out and post the goooood shit but honestly i think rings of power general trannies have driven away the good discussion. As im a terminally online homohomosexual and I dont' see as many good lotr threads as I used to. There is always going to be someone shitposting though. I don't think it indicates some larger trend.
are you saying that the story of the lord of the rings is bad? why make a thread about cgi then and instead say hey this story sucks why do you gays like it?
That's moronic, Moria has been abandoned for centuries and invaded to the brim with goblins and whatnot, why would it be so clean and shiny? No sign of deterioration at all.
I always liked the shininess of Moria, even if it doesn't really make sense. It gives off that idea, that dwarves were the masters of architecture and engineering.
that's dumb, wizards don't get prof with martial weapons like swords unless they're like high elves, and even then he'd be better just spamming cantrips
christ, how can anyone like this inaccurate garbage?
So uhh, do you think the dwarves and orcs shit off the side of their levels and let it fall down into that lake below? Did Gandalf and the Balrog fall into poop water?
easily the best like. I don't even know how to describe it. If it didn't sound disingenuous I'd say epic. It makes me mark out. It makes me want to rewind and watch the scene again. It makes me want to pause the movie get up and pace around my room imagining scenes for my own book i'll never write or fantasize about fighting a giant flaming beast as a holy warrior.
Its just so good. A falling meteor into a black cthonic lake. Gandalf can't even be seen but you know he's there driving his sword into the balrog as they twist around wreathed in flame. There is obviously way more emotional and plotwise hyped up scenes than this. But this scene alone gets me making basedjack faces. Other scenes give me goosebumps or make me tear up. But this scene has me whooping and slapping the ground with my palms like an ape.
Gandalf pursued and fought with the Balrog all the way from the Abyss, through miles and miles of pitch black tunnels to the foot of the endless stair, then chased him all the way up to finally defeat him at the top of Durin's Tower. Quite the battle.
How did no one at all think to mention that there is a giant squid monster defending that door? Elrond? Any of the other Elves that surely used that entrance at some point? Any of the Dwarves? They knew there was only two paths, over the mountain or through Moria.
>How did no one at all think to mention that there is a giant squid monster defending that door?
because the last time anyone had news of Moria was 20+ years before the story?
didn't they just recently send a Dwarf expedition to investigate Moria and see about re-establishing a colony? Surely they'd have sent some word before they got wiped out
Specifically, that side entrance was intended for visiting elves from Eregion, hence the elvish writing and password. Once Eregion was destroyed, it fell into disuse.
how is that possible? do they not trade? do they not have travelling merchants or craftsmen visiting? do they not have diplomatic relations with any other place in the world? what do they even eat there?
lord of the rings is the original virgin nerd interest. it even predates dungeons and dragons which has replaced it as the "go to" call that kid a fricking virgin
Yeah, the close-ups looked good, but the wide shots of Gandalf standing on the bridge are really bad. Still, for early 00's CGI it could have been worse.
The Dwarves at the Council of Elrond in Rivendell had all just come from the Lonely Mountain to the East. They had to go through the mountain range at some point to get to Rivendell. You'd think they'd be able to tell the Fellowship a safe path nearby instead of sending them South within range of Isengard and attempting to go over the mountains with very little necessary equipment?
They also went to Rivendell seeking information on Balin in Moria, which also seems pretty silly since the Elves have nothing to do with it and it's on the wrong side of the mountains.
You’re forgetting the mountain pass that Thorin’s company took, being more north up the range. Since they came directly from Erebor, it would be a waste of time detouring to a passage more south, particularly if it takes you right pass Lorien.
>You'd think they'd be able to tell the Fellowship a safe path nearby instead of sending them South
presumably the dwarf envoys used the High pass which would likely be snowed under by the time the Fellowship departed (around two months after the council met). So they go south to try Caradhras and usually it would be fine except it's en evil fricking mountain and it wouldn't let them pass
>place where the elves awoke and where humans came from
and they didnt make a map of that area? dumb
Yep, none of the Elves, Dwarves, or men in the story had any reason to venture East past Rhun. And the people that did come from the East and the South were mysterious to them and wildly different culturally. Plus most of them already under the sway of Sauron. The only people in the story that went that far East were the Blue Wizards and their story wasn't really fleshed out by Tolkien except that they likely also have lost their way.
"I just killed a Balrog...with my FREAKING MIND!"
We kill Balrogs now?
We kill Balrogs now!
Ain't nothin can stop us! Ain't nothing can bring us down!
>Gets grabbed by the falling Balrog's whip
The bridge looks so fricking goofy. Then there's Gandalf just standing there and it looks digitally ass. Whew, these movies did NOT age well.
what the hell is that stance
>LoOk HoW heS sTanDiNg
nothing will ever appease you gays.
Yes, it's a dumb shot. It's jarring to look at upon rewatch.
"gay man crying because he didn't get into acting for this"
looked fine on my tv.
but then again, im not making screengrabs just to shitpost on Cinemaphile
lotr are the best god damn movies ever to exist
Irrelevant, sound makes it real
>20 year old movie looks better than a billion dollar show produced by Amazon last year
Why is everything turning to shit?
You know ~~*why*~~
No, I don't.
I'm moreso questioning the structure's integrity. How does it not just collapse on itself? That's a ton of heavy stone and there's nothing actually supporting its weight.
don't you EVER dare question the engineering or architecture of the dwarfs you manling fricking shit
1. Arches
2. Magic
3. It kinda did
>he didn't read Tolkien's letter describing the long dwarven history of pre-tension concrete form bridge construction
looks better than your collapsed neovegana
Reminds me of a 90's pc game or fantasy series, peak soul.
Fellowship fricking revolutionized CGI in film. Name ONE movie in the last 20 years that has a better CGI shot than shit. Sure Gandalf looks a little displayed on the greenscreen but every other part is fricking perfect.
maybe some of the Davy Jones stuff from Pirates of the Caribbean
Which was simply a continution of Gollum.
and this is a 300 million dollar budget movie from 2017.
>Go back to the shadow!
this is middle-earthspeak for go to hell
and i love this scene
why?
Because it had frickhueg demons fighting wizards casting magic spells
why not?
Moria is my favorite part of Lord of the Rings. I love every part of it. The mystery and fear of going there, then the resignation about it being the only way. The spooky walk through long dark tunnels for days and days. And the Balrog showing up, Gandalf revealing his powers and eventually falling was an epic climax. Plus Gandalf fighting the Balrog made the Two Towers opening the best of any movie I'd seen at the time. Most of the battles and events after and to the end of the story never reached that same sheer awe factor again.
don't listen to this contrarian zoomer homosexual that worships anime and capeshit if he can't appreciate lotr like it's not even in question shit's a fricking masterpiece especially the first movie
It has the best music too.
the LOTR film trilogy was proto-capeshit
SOVL
>proto-capeshit
Black person capeshit was already a thing you fricking idiot.
Rohirrim horses are fricking gigachads in the book too. They smash through a wall of one hundred thousand orcs and nearly route the army until the Mumakil show up as unexpected reinforcements.
I was kind of disappointed they didn't show off Shadofax more. It would have been kino to see a Mearas in action.
only the two letter movies the first one will always be kino
Easily my favorite scene. "I'm going to die, but frick this fire Black person in the meantime."
>The spooky walk through long dark tunnels for days and days.
Never really felt like that in the movie. An hour, tops.
sadly this is true, they could've made it better
the game The Third Age kinda fixed it
but i still afree with
>i have the high ground
Right after the entrance closes and they start walking, Gandalf does say that it's a four day journey to the other side
I think in the book they were only there for just over a day.
this looked so stupid even as a kid
No, it didn't. It looked fantastic. I doubt anyone would be impressed by your own portrayal of angelic, demigods doing battle with superhuman abilities
if you arent netflix shills then u r moronic
Is netflix in the room with us right now, moron?
Condolences on having such shit taste
Lotr is a pagan work
>J.R.R. Tolkien
>Pagan
wut
Cinemaphile always has the worst takes when it comes to LOTR, doesn't it?
Even Cinemaphile doesn't have stupid-as-shit takes when it comes to this children fantasy novel.
Occasionally the lorejaks of Cinemaphile come out and post the goooood shit but honestly i think rings of power general trannies have driven away the good discussion. As im a terminally online homohomosexual and I dont' see as many good lotr threads as I used to. There is always going to be someone shitposting though. I don't think it indicates some larger trend.
Relevant
Say what you want about Bakshi's LotR, but John Hurt did a great job as Aragorn.
>t. a Moslem's smelly left hand
>just lower your standards and enjoy le heckin movie!
nah just show me something that meets your standards so I know you're not being disingenuous
No, I won't watch Rings of Power.
Yeah bro your standards are so high post your recs
have a nice day
He should follow the curvature of the bridge
HOLY SHIT BRO'S EARLY 2000'S CGI ISN'T THAT GOOD
FRICK IMAGINE MY SHOCK!!!????
lucky the story is based and that's all that matters and it's not some piece of shit marvel movie from disney
>the story is based and that's all that matters
are you saying that the story of the lord of the rings is bad? why make a thread about cgi then and instead say hey this story sucks why do you gays like it?
For me, it's Ted Nasmith
Best one I would say
Looks great, but don't the goblins scatter before the Balrog shows up?
I think they got out of the Balrog's way but were still hanging around and launching arrows across
>Boromir not the last to flee
non-canon
I like demonic Balrog, it fits their characterization of being essentially fallen angels
My boy Sam dgaf
> Frick the wizard, I got a ringbearer to protect.
Artist?
Flame of Udûn, Manuel Castañón
KINO
this is how i always pictured the balrogs not the bestial verson everyone has adopted since the movies
Yah, reading the books as a kid I always imagined a more human form considering they're supposed to be the opposite to Gandalf as fallen Maiar
kino
That's moronic, Moria has been abandoned for centuries and invaded to the brim with goblins and whatnot, why would it be so clean and shiny? No sign of deterioration at all.
I always liked the shininess of Moria, even if it doesn't really make sense. It gives off that idea, that dwarves were the masters of architecture and engineering.
Balrog is human sized.
>Gandalf pulled out a fricking lightsaber and slew the beast
There swords glow around orcs
Damn, Barlog looked like that?
>AYO WHERE DEM GIBS AT
Balnog
Well now we know what the Bakshi version drew from.
some homosexual here on Cinemaphile drew this, true nightmare fuel
>HOLY DIVAH
Terrible and terrifying at the same time.
>The last old white racist in detroit defending his lawn from nogs
>Balrog is just la mona gimenez
Average Brazilian
JFC wizards use staves and stuff, not swords. Can't these hollyfricks do anything right?
Gandalf literally fought with a sword in Moria.
that's dumb, wizards don't get prof with martial weapons like swords unless they're like high elves, and even then he'd be better just spamming cantrips
christ, how can anyone like this inaccurate garbage?
how can it be inaccurate if it's fiction
Looks like someone didn't read the books
>books get wrong what a wizard can do
>read the books!!11
D&D homosexual seething
>not duel wielding both
sub-optimal
says who homosexual
spellblade wizards are best wizards not some gay stick
So uhh, do you think the dwarves and orcs shit off the side of their levels and let it fall down into that lake below? Did Gandalf and the Balrog fall into poop water?
yes
Jesus Christ is that rangs of powa.
IMAGINE
kek what is this?
The Descent.
It's sad when someone posts his own screencapped post.
whatever, look at the replies it got
easily the best like. I don't even know how to describe it. If it didn't sound disingenuous I'd say epic. It makes me mark out. It makes me want to rewind and watch the scene again. It makes me want to pause the movie get up and pace around my room imagining scenes for my own book i'll never write or fantasize about fighting a giant flaming beast as a holy warrior.
Its just so good. A falling meteor into a black cthonic lake. Gandalf can't even be seen but you know he's there driving his sword into the balrog as they twist around wreathed in flame. There is obviously way more emotional and plotwise hyped up scenes than this. But this scene alone gets me making basedjack faces. Other scenes give me goosebumps or make me tear up. But this scene has me whooping and slapping the ground with my palms like an ape.
Biblical is the word you are looking for, especially when accompanied by the choir chants in the film.
This isn't Johannesburg anon, orcs have higher standards than this.
>Durin's off to go chill in his tower again and it takes him weeks to get up there and back
what the frick is wrong with dwarves
manlet rage and created by the literal good of autism
Gandalf pursued and fought with the Balrog all the way from the Abyss, through miles and miles of pitch black tunnels to the foot of the endless stair, then chased him all the way up to finally defeat him at the top of Durin's Tower. Quite the battle.
Ted Nasmith - Moria Gate (2021)
How did no one at all think to mention that there is a giant squid monster defending that door? Elrond? Any of the other Elves that surely used that entrance at some point? Any of the Dwarves? They knew there was only two paths, over the mountain or through Moria.
>How did no one at all think to mention that there is a giant squid monster defending that door?
because the last time anyone had news of Moria was 20+ years before the story?
didn't they just recently send a Dwarf expedition to investigate Moria and see about re-establishing a colony? Surely they'd have sent some word before they got wiped out
"recently" is 20 years ago
They used the main gate not the side entrance.
Specifically, that side entrance was intended for visiting elves from Eregion, hence the elvish writing and password. Once Eregion was destroyed, it fell into disuse.
how is that possible? do they not trade? do they not have travelling merchants or craftsmen visiting? do they not have diplomatic relations with any other place in the world? what do they even eat there?
they are isolationist and don't give a shit about the outside world. I don't know what they eat.
gandalf knew; yet him and others still defied the beast
what an absolute madman
none of them knew, in fact Gandalf got lost because he was looking for a river and finally Gimli noticed the river is gone because it's been dammed
always makes me sad to see an artist over the hill
Nah, he did the right thing getting rid of the Fantasia hat.
Ted Nasmith - Password Into Moria (1996)
Here's your 2023 100 million dollar super hero movie, xir
that's some shitty cgi
I think I finally get it:
Noldor - Germans.
Feanor - Hitler
Morgoth - International israelitery
Valar - Israelites
saruman hands typed it
lord of the rings is the original virgin nerd interest. it even predates dungeons and dragons which has replaced it as the "go to" call that kid a fricking virgin
this looks AI generated, but the hands are fine. anyone got it in better resolution (Yandex not helping)?
https://imgur.com/gallery/LxCRr/
>I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside
The Artwork of Donato Giancola
nice, reminds me of Blake's dragon paintings
stupid sexy Gollum. Frodo looks here like that one really short porn dude who's always filming with large women
Yeah, the close-ups looked good, but the wide shots of Gandalf standing on the bridge are really bad. Still, for early 00's CGI it could have been worse.
could of been better to
>sudden surge in people trying to attack the original movies
Really makes one think.
gandalf the dumdum
> Stumble upon images of ROP Wargs for the first time.
>evil guy is Sauron
>evil guy's buddy is Sauronman
Tolking was a hack
>court traitor is called Grimy Slimesoul
how did he do it
The Dwarves at the Council of Elrond in Rivendell had all just come from the Lonely Mountain to the East. They had to go through the mountain range at some point to get to Rivendell. You'd think they'd be able to tell the Fellowship a safe path nearby instead of sending them South within range of Isengard and attempting to go over the mountains with very little necessary equipment?
They also went to Rivendell seeking information on Balin in Moria, which also seems pretty silly since the Elves have nothing to do with it and it's on the wrong side of the mountains.
You’re forgetting the mountain pass that Thorin’s company took, being more north up the range. Since they came directly from Erebor, it would be a waste of time detouring to a passage more south, particularly if it takes you right pass Lorien.
>You'd think they'd be able to tell the Fellowship a safe path nearby instead of sending them South
presumably the dwarf envoys used the High pass which would likely be snowed under by the time the Fellowship departed (around two months after the council met). So they go south to try Caradhras and usually it would be fine except it's en evil fricking mountain and it wouldn't let them pass
the High pass was too likely to be infested with orcs. The dwarves mention that the Beornings barely keep it open and demand a high toll
Whats to the right of Rhun?
terra incognita except "easterlings" and the place where the elves awoke and where humans came from
>place where the elves awoke and where humans came from
and they didnt make a map of that area? dumb
why would they? They were both fleeing west as fast as possible
Yep, none of the Elves, Dwarves, or men in the story had any reason to venture East past Rhun. And the people that did come from the East and the South were mysterious to them and wildly different culturally. Plus most of them already under the sway of Sauron. The only people in the story that went that far East were the Blue Wizards and their story wasn't really fleshed out by Tolkien except that they likely also have lost their way.
lol lotrgays always dumping on other franchise hiccups finally getting a taste of their own frickery
You don’t do that on your own?
>take a still shot of CGI from almost 25 years ago
>LOOK HOW BAD THIS IS
>btw please watch Rings of Power 🙂
A rip off of the defence of Verdun
>you shall not pass
ils ne passeront pas
Fourty-three
will we live long enough to see such kino again?
>millions must burn
someone make denethor doreen pls I'm phonegaygin
I'm coming mister Frodo prepare your ass AND mouth RRAAAR AAAARRRRH
The tv series will never be this good
God damn this whole sequence is fricking incredible.
Truly next level shit, I know my kids will watch this in like 10 years and love it
It was made for the DVD era, 480p TVs.
The choir after Gandalf’s fall has haunted me to this day.