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Supposedly the Rings of Power Trailer will air during the Super Bowl circa 5:30 Pacific time, for those who may be interested.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:49
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That’s about 2 hours after kickoff. So I’d imagine it’s the first commercial break after the halftime show, or maybe the first commercial break of the 3rd quarter.
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Feb 13, 2022 20:16
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Yeah I saw somewhere it’s supposed to be 3rd quarter
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Feb 13, 2022 21:42
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Looks OK Feels like this show will live or die on if the actor can deliver Galadriel as a badass elf lady Also to treat it as fanfiction on the Shadow of Mordor level
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Feb 14, 2022 02:51
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Just saw the ad and it looked kinda bad.
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Feb 14, 2022 02:54
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Tv commercial looks great y’all
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Feb 14, 2022 02:54
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my bony fealty posted:Looks OK Yeah it felt like she was in basically every second or third shot, so it feels pretty dependent on her. Hopefully she's got the chops to pull it off. My interest is piqued, and I'm definitely going to watch, but it's still in the "zero expectations" category.
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Feb 14, 2022 03:14
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I don't think it gave me any information at all to determine whether it would be good or bad.
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Feb 14, 2022 03:15
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Oh and if anyone didn't see it: https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1493038294065577984
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Feb 14, 2022 03:17
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webmeister posted:Yeah it felt like she was in basically every second or third shot, so it feels pretty dependent on her. Hopefully she's got the chops to pull it off. Same sweet geek swag posted:I don't think it gave me any information at all to determine whether it would be good or bad.
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Feb 14, 2022 03:19
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CGI Galadriel being ice Lara Croft is either 1) total garbage trash bad sign or 2) extremely fuckin rad if it's actually the crossing of the Helcaraxë
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Feb 14, 2022 03:23
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This show could be amazing and people will hate it like it killed their children.
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Feb 14, 2022 03:23
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I wish the text didn't go "before the King, before the Fellowship, before the Ring". You're not a prequel to the Peter Jackson movies, stop assuming everyone knows what you're talking about.
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Feb 14, 2022 03:32
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It's literally one of the most popular film trilogies of all time. They clean-swept the Oscars. Why would you not want to invoke that memory?
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Feb 14, 2022 03:35
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Man, that just left me completely cold. I didn't hate it, I just didn't feel anything. I'm usually a sucker for a good trailer, but nope. Nothing. The costumes look good enough, but sort of sterile.
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Feb 14, 2022 03:38
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I know it’s a teaser but I’m glad they haven’t given away the whole show yet. The effects look good enough I guess so it will come down to writing and acting.
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Feb 14, 2022 04:08
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BetterLekNextTime posted:I know it’s a teaser but I’m glad they haven’t given away the whole show yet. The effects look good enough I guess so it will come down to writing and acting.
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Feb 14, 2022 04:10
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I liked Elrond wearing gull wings on his shoulders. He loves his momma.  The trailer doesn't tell much about the plot, as I might have expected, but everything looks much better in motion than in publicity stills. Meneltarma, Helcaraxe, and Gil-Galad look great.
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Feb 14, 2022 04:29
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There is literally nothing of value lost if the show is bad, but still plenty to gain. If they're bad I hope they're bad like the Hobbit movies, which in many spots felt like Tolkien seasoning atop a delicious, greasy, cholesterol-laden fried chicken bucket of D&D anecdotes.
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Feb 14, 2022 04:48
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Hm. I don't think it looks bad or anything, but that seems like a bizarre trailer and I'm not sure who it was for. By the end of it I had no idea what they were trying to sell me on.
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Feb 14, 2022 05:11
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feedmyleg posted:Hm. I don't think it looks bad or anything, but that seems like a bizarre trailer and I'm not sure who it was for. By the end of it I had no idea what they were trying to sell me on. Elves. Men. Dwarves. Hobbits. Cool set pieces. On screen text directly invoking the original trilogy. It’s pretty obvious that they’re trying to draw in fans of the films.
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Feb 14, 2022 06:01
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Sure, I guess I just didn't feel like they did that effectively. Many of those particular shots feel like unusual choices if your show is chock full of those things.
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Feb 14, 2022 06:05
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feedmyleg posted:Sure, I guess I just didn't feel like they did that effectively. Many of those particular shots feel like unusual choices if your show is chock full of those things. I mean, they’re trying to invoke the original trilogy without having any direct ties to it or any rights to the book material. I’d say they did a decent job of it. They’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t. If they invoke the Jackson movies too much they’ll be accused of being unoriginal and just cashing in on someone else’s success. If they don’t they’ll be accused of ignoring and dishonoring the legacy of one of the greatest film franchises of all time. They’re walking a pretty narrow tightrope at the moment. So far nothing has turned me off. But we’ll see.
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Feb 14, 2022 06:10
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The message was "Do you remember Lord of the Rings? Well, get ready for more of it"
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Feb 14, 2022 06:32
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But surely after having finished principal photography months ago you can evoke hobbit-like imagery with a better shot than a closeup of a curly-haired person sitting in front of a... lantern near a root? If that's what you're trying to convey, are there really no shots that better than that to sell your potentially-nostalgic audience on the "Wow look it's a hobbit!" moment of your trailer? I don't know, maybe I'm just nitpicking or way off base about this, but it feels like a poorly cut trailer to me.
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Feb 14, 2022 06:46
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feedmyleg posted:But surely after having finished principal photography months ago you can evoke hobbit-like imagery with a better shot than a closeup of a curly-haired person sitting in front of a... lantern near a root? If that's what you're trying to convey, are there really no shots that better than that to sell your potentially-nostalgic audience on the "Wow look it's a hobbit!" moment of your trailer? Thats what the big wide shots of impressive scenery did. Honestly think it evoked what most people probably think of the lord of the rings movies just fine, seems like it just didn't evoke what you personally remember of the lord of the rings movies.
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Feb 14, 2022 06:54
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The imagery was good, and very pretty, but they spent so much money on this that if it didn't look gorgeous I'd be extremely worried.
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Feb 14, 2022 07:09
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Some cool stuff in that teaser and some stuff that looked ok, really not enough to make a fair judgement. I do wonder if theyre going with Blue Wizards arriving the Second Age and that shot of the fireball and man in the fire is one of them arriving. With what could be the Harfoot in that fire shot, might be going for a sort of proto-Gandalf/Hobbit relationship.
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Feb 14, 2022 07:09
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Googled "Rings of Power" on Youtube last night (UK) as I wasn't sure what time it'd drop in America and (I was too early) man, there was a depressing amount of idiots spouting "Amazon goes woke. Show will be a disaster" etc talking head videos . Apparently just from the screenshots. I am now determined to watch this show and love every second just to spite these people. Edit: Watched it again on the IGN feed and Jesus the comments (4k plus) are just wall to wall copy paste of “Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt.” - J.R.R Tolkien For fucks sake. 
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Feb 14, 2022 10:53
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Deptfordx posted:I am now determined to watch this show and love every second just to spite these people. As a refined cis het gentleman, I only watch this show, if it is great. I'm radical in that way.
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Feb 14, 2022 11:06
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Deptfordx posted:Googled "Rings of Power" on Youtube last night (UK) as I wasn't sure what time it'd drop in America and (I was too early) man, there was a depressing amount of idiots spouting "Amazon goes woke. Show will be a disaster" etc talking head videos . Apparently just from the screenshots. Yeah I've seen one video of some guy ranting about this (and that'll do, pig). It's incredible how the entire thing is apparently ruined forever because of two dark skinned characters and a different direction for Galadriel. Also the way that quote is re-interpreted to mean "Anything new or different IS evil" is sure something.
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Feb 14, 2022 11:50
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Bongo Bill posted:The message was "Do you remember Lord of the Rings? Well, get ready for more of it" Yeah . Pretty good message.
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Feb 14, 2022 13:06
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Deptfordx posted:“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt.” - J.R.R Tolkien I have a feeling that these idiots are interpreting that quote to mean “anything new = evil” which is not what it means.
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Feb 14, 2022 14:25
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all joking aside though, it's going to be a bad show.
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Feb 14, 2022 14:53
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looks more like the hobbit than the lotr. which is bad imo but ill give it a shot.
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Feb 14, 2022 15:07
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If it’s bad then cool, we can all ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist. If it’s good then cool, we get new content to enjoy. And honestly, “woke” is up there with words like soy, beta, cuck etc in that anyone using it can be safely ignored.
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Feb 14, 2022 15:17
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it will live and die by the writing. if its good, im on board for new content as i think it follows in the spirit of Tolkien wanting others to create in his framework. granted i think he meant more like "write a song about the dagor bragollach" and not a new tv show, but gently caress it.
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Feb 14, 2022 15:40
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Southpaugh posted:looks more like the hobbit than the lotr. which is bad imo but ill give it a shot. That reminds me, anyone who hated the bit in the Hobbit where legolas jumps across falling stone should definitely watch the Uncharted film
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Feb 14, 2022 15:51
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I'll have a hard time seeing it through any lens other than "Will it avoid the problems that dogged the Wheel of Time series?" Covid happening midway through, attenuated season / small episode count to adapt a preexisting closed-ended story, tiptoeing around the fundamental regressive discomfort of the premise, a major actor leaving for unexplained reasons ... ...Those are all factors that shouldn't affect this show, theoretically. What might affect it is that it all just seems kind of generic high-fantasy which is what a lot of people dismissed WoT as, fairly or not. Will they be able to ride enough cultural awareness of the basic Tolkien universe story beats that they can count on audience buy-in just on the basis of a few name-drops of characters they already know? WoT didn't have that benefit either. It's theirs to screw up, I guess is what I'm saying. Data Graham fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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Feb 14, 2022 15:51
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A lot of live-action fantasy is just plain bad, it's a difficult genre to adapt. The fact that they only have the basic beats of what's happening in that era is another challenge, and I expect in particular that they'll really struggle with getting the dialogue right and not having an entire script worth of phrases that have more in common with original lines from the movies. YaketySass fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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