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I'm not really fazed about the show because I have zero expectations of it, except I can't stand the dude playing Elrond. It's completely unfair but there's something about his face I just can't stand 
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Heavenly creatures was much bigger as a rental after its Oscar buzz iirc It was awhile ago
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:I'm not really fazed about the show because I have zero expectations of it, except I can't stand the dude playing Elrond. It's completely unfair but there's something about his face I just can't stand At least it's not just me.
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Aug 4, 2022 02:25
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He's the guy who played Young Ned Stark in game of Thrones and he looks like he stole his chin from a much older and larger man.
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Aug 4, 2022 02:42
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Hugo Weaving was also a lovely Elrond, they’re just continuing the tradition.
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Aug 4, 2022 03:53
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Kaysette posted:Hugo Weaving was also a lovely Elrond, they’re just continuing the tradition. I'd like to see you do any better. How fair is your brow?
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euphronius posted:Heavenly creatures was much bigger as a rental after its Oscar buzz iirc He also did The Frighteners, with Michael J. Fox, which was a fun entertaining little movie with a good plot and jump scares.
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Kaysette posted:Hugo Weaving was also a lovely Elrond, they’re just continuing the tradition. Hugo Weaving's Elrond felt a little too severe for my tastes. I always pictured Elrond to be more serious but regal. Hugo played him too grim imo, though that may have been a PJ choice more than anything.
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Aug 4, 2022 05:56
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Jackson fukken nailed it with casting, even if some of it was happy accidents. Can you imagine a world where Sean Connery had not turned down Gandalf or that other dude was not last minute replaced by Viggo?
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:I'm not really fazed about the show because I have zero expectations of it, except I can't stand the dude playing Elrond. It's completely unfair but there's something about his face I just can't stand he looks like a MENSA member
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Aug 4, 2022 07:26
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WoodrowSkillson posted:False. Everything sucks and will only get worse. Counterpoint: eucatastrophe https://twitter.com/ASFleischman/status/1554863615320227846
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The only scene that Weaving really gets any chance to act as Elrond is the Council, which is a matter-of-fact discussion of a grim and serious threat. The joyful side of Elrond comes out in all the scenes from the book that aren't included in the film - notably I'm thinking of him joking around with Bilbo in the Hall of Fire. So it's less a fault of Weaving's acting or PJ's directing as it is a necessary fact of adapting a long-rear end book into a three-hour movie.
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The Hobbit cartoon did a fairly reasonable job at depicting him I think. That guy's a little decrepit but I can see him being described as "kind as Christmas" at least
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Aug 4, 2022 10:32
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jackson's vulcan elves sucked it wouldn't have taken that many extra minutes to show them goofing around
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Runcible Cat posted:Counterpoint: eucatastrophe Pretty sure you're in the wrong thread here.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:False. Everything sucks and will only get worse. ...despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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Oracle posted:Pretty sure you're in the wrong thread here. Sharing the joy.
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We had it on good authority that Morgoth Bauglir, Father of Lies, never wants for a harvest and though he might be forever shut away from Arda his texts bear dark fruit even unto the latest days
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Data Graham posted:We had it on good authority that Morgoth Bauglir, Father of Lies, never wants for a harvest and though he might be forever shut away from Arda his texts bear dark fruit even unto the latest days And we have it on even better authority that even in this, he shall prove but Eru's instrument in the devising of things yet more wonderful.
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Devlan Mud posted:It’s not like the Game of Thrones guys had an enormous IMDB page and the first few seasons turned out okay. Yeah, the ones where they got to adapt complete works and had the author involved in the creative process. Then they crashed and burned when they needed to flesh out an incomplete summary with their own content. Not exactly the most encouraging precedent to cite here. 
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I am completely prepared for any Amazon show to be poo poo, but I have seen no deal breakers yet in the advertising.
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I recently finished the 4k extended editions on HBOMax in preparation for the show. I actually think I prefer the theatrical version of ROTK to the extended edition, though my ideal cut would've included all the added stuff with Frodo/Sam between Cirith Ungol and Mount Doom. Don't get me wrong, I really like almost all the extended stuff individually, but I think some of it disrupts the pacing and some of it just feels like fat. I think the best way to watch the trilogy is: FOTR: Extended --> TTT: Extended --> ROTK: Theatrical
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The 47 times ROTK extended makes anyone who hasn't read the books but has seen a lot of movies think, "Annnnd The End. Right? No, still going..." is almost trollish. It really does do everything cinematic language does to signal "the end" about a dozen times.
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Aug 6, 2022 23:45
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And still, famously, leaves out a lot of the denouement of the book.
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The thing that always sticks out to me for the extended ROTK version is how Ian McKellen starts dying smoking his pipe when he talks about Pippin joining the service of Denethor. In the theatrical run he sounds amused by the development but in the extended cut he's pissed off and I don't know why they used that take.
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Arc Hammer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaSZNPscvFU Dear god the toxic backlash to this show is on a level I have never seen. I also imagine the million people all posting the same idiotic youtube comment gimmick at the behest of their rage fueled psychotic youtube culture pundits are ones to often use the word "sheep".
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AccountSupervisor posted:the million people all posting the same idiotic youtube comment gimmick I don't get what they're trying to do. they're doing the classic "quote from a genre film but all the elements are mixed up from other films" meme but that doesn't really make any sense in the context of this youtube comment section, and even further doesn't make sense as a negative-review-bomb type strategy. Is this really supposed to be some kind of epic own against the "woke" show? What are they trying to say???
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Probably that it's generic, not different than any other action movie out of Hollywood.
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OctaviusBeaver posted:Probably that it's generic, not different than any other action movie out of Hollywood. well i guess they're probably right about that but idk why that would motivate a whole mob of comment-bombing. i just assumed it had to be culture war poo poo
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Gresh posted:I think the best way to watch the trilogy is: FOTR: Extended --> TTT: Extended --> ROTK: Theatrical This is what I did for my last rewatch and I gotta agree. I missed seeing a few things but it was already long enough.
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Arc Hammer posted:The thing that always sticks out to me for the extended ROTK version is how Ian McKellen starts dying smoking his pipe when he talks about Pippin joining the service of Denethor. In the theatrical run he sounds amused by the development but in the extended cut he's pissed off and I don't know why they used that take. Yeah that was a bizarre Lucas eque choice.
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DontMockMySmock posted:I don't get what they're trying to do. they're doing the classic "quote from a genre film but all the elements are mixed up from other films" meme but that doesn't really make any sense in the context of this youtube comment section, and even further doesn't make sense as a negative-review-bomb type strategy. Is this really supposed to be some kind of epic own against the "woke" show? What are they trying to say??? The joke is that they think the series is inaccurate and unfaithful to the source material, cue endless "use the Force, Harry" knee-slappers.
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Just finished reading children of hurin for the first time and goddamn sucks to be that family
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Tom Smykowski posted:Just finished reading children of hurin for the first time and goddamn sucks to be that family I believe this was word-for-word on the inside jacket flap.
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A new LOTR video game just got announced, but we don't know much about it other than its existence.quote:...
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they sure as poo poo better give me more shadows of war with the show coming out god dammit
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So we don’t even know what genre it might be?
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Elf lord dating sim
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