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Tired-Insomniac 09/20/19 10:01:10 PM #1: |
There. I said it.
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AlecSkorpio 09/20/19 10:04:30 PM #2: |
CEs opinion on movies has gotten really turrible as of late
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Tired-Insomniac 09/20/19 10:06:07 PM #3: |
AlecSkorpio posted...
CEs opinion on movies has gotten really turrible as of late I didn't say it was on par with LOTR Just that it wasn't bad --- "I like turtles" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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The Admiral 09/20/19 10:06:39 PM #4: |
It wasn't bad, but it was mediocre and needlessly drawn out.
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AvantgardeAClue 09/20/19 10:09:10 PM #5: |
While we're here, as someone who is completely new to LoTR do I read the book before the movie or vice versa
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Zikten 09/20/19 10:09:39 PM #6: |
I liked it. I admit it's not as good as LOTR. but it was still good. I enjoyed the movies.
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MarthGoomba 09/20/19 10:09:56 PM #7: |
They were decent
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Zikten 09/20/19 10:10:19 PM #8: |
AvantgardeAClue posted...
While we're here, as someone who is completely new to LoTR do I read the book before the movie or vice versa I haven't read any of the tolkien books. I think most people haven't. you dont need to read them to appreciate the movies I might try to read them someday. but I hear Tolkien's style of writing is hard to get through ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tired-Insomniac 09/20/19 10:10:25 PM #9: |
AvantgardeAClue posted...
While we're here, as someone who is completely new to LoTR do I read the book before the movie or vice versa I read the books after. Loved both. --- "I like turtles" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tired-Insomniac 09/20/19 10:11:00 PM #10: |
The Admiral posted...
It wasn't bad, but it was mediocre and needlessly drawn out. That I agree with, it should've been two movies at most. --- "I like turtles" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ASithLord7 09/20/19 10:11:17 PM #11: |
First two were whatever, third was one of the worst movies ive ever seen
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AlecSkorpio 09/20/19 10:11:27 PM #12: |
Tired-Insomniac posted...
AlecSkorpio posted...CEs opinion on movies has gotten really turrible as of late Yeah my bad I think I think less of it because of the length. Should have been two films tops --- Christian Bale profited off the Iraq War ... Copied to Clipboard!
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smoke_break 09/20/19 10:12:42 PM #13: |
How'd they even stretch it out to 3 movies? Granted I haven't read the book but it doesn't seem like a long book.
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hockeybub89 09/20/19 10:13:13 PM #14: |
It got objectively bad.
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Clutch 09/20/19 10:13:18 PM #15: |
Not enough songs.
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AvantgardeAClue 09/20/19 10:13:36 PM #16: |
Zikten posted...
AvantgardeAClue posted...While we're here, as someone who is completely new to LoTR do I read the book before the movie or vice versa Tired-Insomniac posted... AvantgardeAClue posted...While we're here, as someone who is completely new to LoTR do I read the book before the movie or vice versa Gotcha I have audio books of the trilogy + the Hobbit ready to listen when I have time Should I read The Hobbit first or is it a prequel to the trilogy --- Sometimes I say things and I'm not voice acting. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Zikten 09/20/19 10:15:28 PM #17: |
Hobbit was written first. so I guess start with that, if your going with the books.
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AvantgardeAClue 09/20/19 10:16:40 PM #19: |
Zikten posted...
Hobbit was written first. so I guess start with that, if your going with the books. Does movie Hobbits lead into LoTR well? Judging from this topic I'm guessing not lol --- Sometimes I say things and I'm not voice acting. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Zikten 09/20/19 10:18:18 PM #21: |
not exactly. there is a big time gap between the end of The Hobbit and the start of Lord of the Rings.
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sabin017 09/20/19 10:19:40 PM #22: |
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rodu_jr 09/20/19 10:20:58 PM #23: |
It had moments, some very good moments, isolated among many not so good moments
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Tired-Insomniac 09/20/19 10:23:53 PM #24: |
Zikten posted...
not exactly. there is a big time gap between the end of The Hobbit and the start of Lord of the Rings. He's in his 50s in The Hobbit, 111 in LOTR PrideOfLion posted... It's not that long of a book, but there are definitely times when a one or two sentence description could easily be a ~10 minute scene. Not to mention things like Bilbo is knocked unconscious for certain scenes the movies decided to show, or showing what Gandalf was doing off-screen. They took a bunch of stuff from the appendices too, didn't they? --- "I like turtles" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tired-Insomniac 09/20/19 10:26:40 PM #25: |
AvantgardeAClue posted...
Zikten posted...Hobbit was written first. so I guess start with that, if your going with the books. IMO it's like the first six Star Wars movies. Watch the original trilogy first. One of the very first scenes of The Hobbit takes place right before the beginning of LOTR and then boom 60 year flashback. Lots of references/foreshadowing that you'd appreciate more having watched LOTR first. --- "I like turtles" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Makeveli_lives 09/20/19 10:27:26 PM #26: |
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How'd they even stretch it out to 3 movies? Granted I haven't read the book but it doesn't seem like a long book. It was supposed to be 2 originally and also directed by Del Toro instead of Peter Jackson. Jackson did what he could given the demands but still. Originally he had like 3 years to prep for the original trilogy, for this one he comes on with 6 months to figure out how to work with someone else's vision and casting. It's no wonder it suffered. Studio saw dollar signs in a trilogy so they did it. MarthGoomba posted... They were decent The second one? The second one was easily the best of the 3. The first was good but it was so goddamn long, they really could've cut an hour of footage and lost nothing of worth. 3rd was a waste of time, only 20-30 minutes of what happened needed to be shown to end the story. Dope fight for --- Switch FC: SW-3917-4425-6106 PSN: PiKappaPhi769 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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pfh1001 09/20/19 10:34:44 PM #27: |
They sucked.
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Shotgunnova 09/20/19 10:35:38 PM #28: |
That new QT3.14 elf they added in was
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Rikiaz 09/20/19 10:53:04 PM #29: |
I agree. But the issue isnt that they were terrible, its that they should have been much better.
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stoltenberg11 09/20/19 11:08:20 PM #30: |
It had an indulgent amount of callbacks to the LotR trilogy and that stuff with the poorly CGId white orc was unnecessary too
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CelestialVoices 09/20/19 11:08:53 PM #31: |
i don't think theyre that bad either. i had a pretty good time the last time i watched them, prob the most of any time i saw them before
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Hanky_Bannister 09/20/19 11:11:13 PM #32: |
lame compared to lotr
sexy elf kate was cool tho --- "3rd Best Whiskey in Northern Burma" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvjOu4EzjYg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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BruceWayneJr 09/20/19 11:12:47 PM #33: |
Good soundtracks.
And the sequence in the first one where they kill the goblin king and escape from their lair was fun in a cartoony way. That's it. --- Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tired-Insomniac 09/21/19 12:36:06 AM #34: |
Well shit
Random fun morbid fact I found while watching clips from LOTR on YouTube J.R.R. Tolkien died in 1973 Reverse 1973 and you get 3791 3 7 9 1 Three rings for the Elven Kings under the sky Maybe it's the four hours of sleep getting to me but that's cool as fuck. --- "I like turtles" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Zikten 09/21/19 12:36:58 AM #35: |
that's actually pretty interesting.
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Ludwig Von 2 09/21/19 12:54:53 AM #36: |
I really liked the first movie. To me that one was on par with LotR.
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Paper_Okami 09/21/19 12:56:47 AM #37: |
I only saw the first one
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marthsheretoo 09/21/19 1:08:31 AM #38: |
The second one has the dubious honor of being one of the only films I had to stop watching because of how bad it was.
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BanjoBoomer 09/21/19 2:15:08 AM #40: |
The content that actually follows the book is phenomenal. But that's like, two or three hours, maybe four tops, out of a nine hour runtime.
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Awakened_Link 09/21/19 2:33:05 AM #41: |
Really should've been condensed down to one film. They did the book a disservice.
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Rikiaz 09/21/19 2:56:14 AM #42: |
Awakened_Link posted...
Really should've been condensed down to one film. They did the book a disservice. I agree. I liked some of Gandalfs story and the tying into the Lord of the Rings parts but they should have been a different movie. --- From the depths, the thing they called Worm King did rise. Nirn itself did scream in the Mages' and Necromancers' war. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Ilishe 09/21/19 2:56:48 AM #43: |
smoke_break posted...
How'd they even stretch it out to 3 movies? Granted I haven't read the book but it doesn't seem like a long book. Hm. Well, in the books, the big battle at the end lasts for about one paragraph IIRC. Bilbo gets knocked out by a rock hitting him in the head and wakes up after the battle. Since it's all from his perspective, we see none of the actual fighting. --- ~Phoenix Nine~ ~Victory needs no explanation; defeat allows none.~ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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thrashmetal14 09/21/19 3:13:32 AM #44: |
The Hobbit movies piss me off. They're straight up disrespectful to Tolkien
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shnangyboos 09/21/19 3:22:01 AM #45: |
That goddamn barrel river battle was some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen.
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InYourWalls1 09/21/19 3:22:17 AM #46: |
AvantgardeAClue posted...
Does movie Hobbits lead into LoTR well? I would just read the Hobbit first, it's a good read and gives you a solid grounding for when you get into LotR Don't bother with the Hobbit movies though --- The fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scar the 1 09/21/19 3:43:57 AM #47: |
Tired-Insomniac posted...
They took a bunch of stuff from the appendices too, didn't they? Most of what they took was from their ass --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent ... Copied to Clipboard!
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