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Frog Act posted:is this because it has a single Black person not playing an orc? GF and I have been rewatching the movies for the first time in like a decade and the weirdly white cast is much more noticeable to me now then when I was like 12 and they first came out. I know it’s a trite and common criticism but even with the races of men the only ones that are even slightly dusky and coded as North African are just evil baddies motivated by doing exotic oriental despotisms tbh It didn't bug me that some ancient europe-like place based on ancient european religion was filled with the white man but the "foreign bad humans" being non white was really tacky edit: idk if the orcs were coded non-white or non-human in the mind of the designers and casting directors b/c they do have tribal poo poo and are the only non white cast members
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I mean, just look at the King Kong remake if you want to side-eye Peter Jackson about race.
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Farm Frenzy posted:its a huge missed opportunity/gently caress up for amazon if they dont flesh out the easterlings I don't see how they couldn't at least give them some screen time if the forging of the rings are a central plot point
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Fleetwood posted:elves act like they're above it all but I think they're all out freaks in private. there's probably elven cenobites out there that's basically just every setting's 'dark elves'
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I don't see how they couldn't at least give them some screen time if the forging of the rings are a central plot point he doesn’t give the rings to any easterlings til way after they’re forged, like centuries later. they might move up the timeline but they don’t get any rings before Celebrimbor gets pwnt
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:I mean, just look at the King Kong remake if you want to side-eye Peter Jackson about race. love those white extras dressed as LOTR orcs to depict the island natives
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indigi posted:he doesn’t give the rings to any easterlings til way after they’re forged, like centuries later. they might move up the timeline but they don’t get any rings before Celebrimbor gets pwnt who are the men that get the rings and become nazgul? I know one of thems an Easterling 🤔
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thatfatkid posted:who are the men that get the rings and become nazgul? I know one of thems an Easterling 🤔 I don't think he's one but The witch king of angmar had better be a phrase that gets repeated a thousand times
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boba fett isnt as bad as I thought it would be. Temuera is having fun and the 2nd ep had some great moments. 1st and 3rd are bad tho and make me wonder if Rodriguez should direct anything anymore. i'll assume it has something to do with being a control freak and not delegating to people who know how to make action look good
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Durf posted:boba fett isnt as bad as I thought it would be. Temuera is having fun and the 2nd ep had some great moments. The action in alita was great , was that Rodriguez just relying on James Cameron's old storyboards or something
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thatfatkid posted:who are the men that get the rings and become nazgul? I know one of thems an Easterling 🤔 nameless “evil hearted men” who went on to become sorcerers and kings in the east, probably recruited from there too given their long-standing thralldom and service to Morgoth
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mastershakeman posted:The action in alita was great , was that Rodriguez just relying on James Cameron's old storyboards or something I'm assuming the CGI team handled everything based on his notes/storyboards/flailing. In Boba it seems like he's trying to do everything in camera which isn't the best if you're trying to make speeders or a 60 year old look fast. The edits are weird and laggy feeling too.
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also re: film/TV adaptations of books, my wife is insanely well-read and hated all of them until.... amazon's Reacher. she reads tons of smarty books but has a thing for pulp and thinks the show nails the source material (escapist trash). I for one think the action is a lot more brutal and better choreographed than in the terrible trailers, which made it look like a Hallmark film. And deliberate or not the Reacher actor has a stilted autistic sociopath thing going on which makes him more than pure tough guy fantasy. Also Guillermo from the funny vampire show plays the coroner. mostly I'm just waiting to see what they do with Herzog's character from the film, and if we see any on-screen allusion to Reacher's MONSTER HOG.
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I didn’t even know that was a book but yeah it will be hard to top the herzog villain. I cant think of another modern action villain with the pathos of that “eat your own finger” scene.
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indigi posted:nameless “evil hearted men” who went on to become sorcerers and kings in the east, probably recruited from there too given their long-standing thralldom and service to Morgoth three of them were Numenoreans who were part of the cult of Morgoth, but the Witch King's origins are a mystery.
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what’s the mystery? he was a witch, and he was the king of angmar.
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TheSlutPit posted:I didn’t even know that was a book but yeah it will be hard to top the herzog villain. I cant think of another modern action villain with the pathos of that “eat your own finger” scene. “Always the bullet. I don’t understand.”
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you have to wonder if the grey havens is all that if the five wizards show up on middle earth and immediately get distracted by pipe weed, animals, and whatever the hell the blue wizards got into.
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Dreylad posted:you have to wonder if the grey havens is all that if the five wizards show up on middle earth and immediately get distracted by pipe weed, animals, and whatever the hell the blue wizards got into. tolkien subconsciously realizing heaven would be boring as gently caress, like any good catholic
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https://twitter.com/marvel_n3ws/status/1491841685113954309
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Watchmen (Alan Moore, 1987)
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smarxist posted:
she’s gonna be woman Thor for 20 minutes and then leave to avoid the grinder that’s the mcu
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Natalie Portman looks perplexed by this story detail. Is this a reliable account or are you just trolling because this is a funny idea?
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jane thor had cancer in the comic so they have to just give it to her somehow i guess
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If she had regular cancer she'd just become Deadpool.
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Durf posted:tolkien subconsciously realizing heaven would be boring as gently caress, like any good catholic
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smarxist posted:i thought he stayed pretty good after Dark Tower quoting a 3 week old post to say i was baffled by this and spent the week listening to the regulators and desperation because i needed some king to kill some time and i realized that I had these books backwards in my head for the last two decades because I hadn't come back to them regulators rules and desperation was a slog and I was doing Bachmann dirty this whole time
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oh yeah for sure, i read them back to back and enjoyed both, but desperation kinda never hit its stride where as regulators was a loving acid trip from start to finish lol
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so in the process of resurrecting everyone Tony Stark gave innumerable people fatal diseases. seems like a massive fuckup
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smarxist posted:oh yeah for sure, i read them back to back and enjoyed both, but desperation kinda never hit its stride where as regulators was a loving acid trip from start to finish lol yeah usually going whole hog like that in a book kills the pacing but he managed the creeping dread in the audrey/seth flashbacks pretty well and something about the way king does squalid houses really adds a lot to those parts although he reused the entirety of the seth/tak interactions later in the dark tower with susannah lol
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Is the amazon show going to be better or worse than the Hobbit movies? well if Wheel of Time adaption is any indication at Amazon's ability to do good adaptations, it's probably worse.
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ughhhh posted:Anyone watched the new Kingsman yet? Lmao. The new Kingsman has a scene after the good guys kill off Rasputin, where the big bad shadowy evil man angry at Rasputin's death, calls up Lenin to start the revolution to destroy all good in the world. Lenin's line is "when I'm successful, your problem will be finding my equal to balance from the right". holy moley this was so bad i didn't finish it. not in just an offensive way, just in a movie way. rasputin owned tho
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I might watch the show for just the first two episodes. https://twitter.com/LOTRUpdates/status/1491868015167787014
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DesertIslandHermit posted:I might watch the show for just the first two episodes. I think you were going to watch, and post about it endlessly itt regardless of how good or bad it is.
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DesertIslandHermit posted:I might watch the show for just the first two episodes. why not just make that the loving show
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DesertIslandHermit posted:I might watch the show for just the first two episodes. doing a star wars text crawl for the whole Silmarillion in 3 hours
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