New Line Cinema's anime feature The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which opened on Dec. 13 to a very low $4.5M, will be available on digital in home on Dec. 27, repping a 14-day theatrical window.
I enjoyed it but also did not think it was gonna have much mass market appeal. I think it being animated probably turned a couple people off but I quite liked that. Where it struggled is building actually likable characters and a coherent story. At least twice characters and plot points were so monumentally dumb it got hard to really suspend my disbelief and overlook it. The big villain of the movie is also depressingly 2dimensional.
Once you realise it’s more of an in universe folk retelling by Arwen. It’s easier to suspend disbelief. It’s almost like hearing a fairy tale or a myth from middle earth.
I enjoyed it but also did not think it was gonna have much mass market appeal. I think it being animated probably turned a couple people off but I quite liked that. Where it struggled is building actually likable characters and a coherent story. At least twice characters and plot points were so monumentally dumb it got hard to really suspend my disbelief and overlook it. The big villain of the movie is also depressingly 2dimensional.
Once you realise it’s more of an in universe folk retelling by Arwen. It’s easier to suspend disbelief. It’s almost like hearing a fairy tale or a myth from middle earth.