Before you get mad at me, when was the last time you watched it?
- Dialogue is mediocre
- story left me indifferent
- characters are one dimensional
- there are no surprises
- the world is cool tho
- and my god are they crying a lot while carrying that MF to that Volcano 🌋
The best thing I can say about this movie trilogy is that it is kinda comfy
OP, did you read the books? By today’s standards, they may be a tad boring, but these were the books that created the clichhés in the first place. The movies were pretty decent for their time (although RotK was waaaayyyyy too long), but I did not feel that the books were done much justice. And there was too much ‘humorous’ dialougue shoehorned in. The Legolas-Gimli-Bromance was hard to watch, even then. That in and of itself makes the movies overrated.
Also, as for ‘there are no surprises’, the story of the movies differed from the books. LotR fans were unpleasantly surprised by that.
Off-topic: the Hobbit movies were abonimations. I fucking hate them.
Nope I didn’t read the books and sure LotR made fantasy somewhat mainstream, I can’t deny that.
Never felt compelled to see the movies, but the books were some of the most pompous, boring things I ever read. Multiple pages of battle songs, crap like that? I read the entire trilogy and The Hobbit, waiting to get to the “good part”, for it to click in. But it never did.
It seems some people here think it is impossible to dislike the movies and I am just talking shit on purpose, so thank you for being a breath of fresh air. Here have some dino nuggies:
I’m all for valid criticisms, but mediocre dialogue and one-dimensional characters? And your fave movies are Momento and Reservoir Dogs? The math ain’t mathing.
Like what you like, but I call bullshit. Logging this under “I said some controversial shit to stir up online discourse.” Enjoy my downvote, sir.
I spent my teenage years reading, playing DnD and overall just being a huge dork. I was gifted the movies a few times by relatives who didn’t know I found the movies boring as hell.
Did you like the DnD movie?
The two from the 2000s were trainwrecks that my friends and I mocked pretty hard. They had a few fun moments, but even then I knew they were objectively bad movies. Saying that, a 13-14 year old me would’ve been delighted to get those as a gift instead of the LoTR nap inducers.
But the new one?! Honor Among Thieves? Love it SO much. Goofy barely serious characters with hammy backstories living in a world that has both serious consequences and detailed history. Finally nailed it!
Wife and I are just about done with our 3rd-ish Baulders Gate 3 run and we are planning on giving it a rewatch soon. :)
Agreed, I was laughing like a child throughout
Agreed.
The books are even worse, every other page is a fucking song or extended poem.
Most over rated shit I never finished.
I’m listening to Andy Serkis reading it for the forth or fifth time, while reading your comment (him singing at this moment as Tom Bombadil). One of the very few things I dislike is all the fucking songs or extended poems.
Serkis is a great narrator, but I think maybe they should have had someone else sing lol
Or just read it out loud normally.
Yeh it was the audiobooks that I tries out, I gave it a good 10 hours or so, so I think I gave it a fair go but fuck me the singing was like nails on a chalk board for me.
I started skipping through the songs after the first couple but then as time went on I realised just how often it was going to happen and I couldn’t stand it.
I thought I was getting into an epic fantasy adventure and instead I got a wanky musical about walking!
I thought I was getting into an epic fantasy adventure and instead I got a wanky musical about walking!
That’s how medieval people perceived their epic fantasy adventures. It’s correct. And authentic. And very cool, when you think about the distances they went, the scenery they saw and that they had no Google Maps, GPS and mobile phones for connectivity. It’s between a very long hiking trip and a one-way ticket sleeper ship to Alpha Centauri.
BTW, another wrong thing from the movies - it feels there as if it all were happening in one world. As if they had regular trains between Minas Tirith and Fornost. As if they had TV. I dunno, something like that, because they behave there as if immune to distractions, one can imagine that in Forgotten Realms setting, where magic does everything that mobile phones and GPS can do, and “adventurers” roam everywhere, but not in Middle-Earth.
There is a lot of it in the beginning. It is an epic adventure though.
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I think the problem is you’re not watching the extended versions… All in one showing… Without bathroom breaks… Like a normal person…
There’s bathroom, just no breaks.
Either wear a diaper like Eru Ilúvatar intended or put a TV in the bathroom and watch the nearly twelve hour trilogy from your porcelain throne. Bonus points for drinks cooling in the toilet tank.
I see your untranslatable text and raise you further untranslatable text. Hint: it’s poop related.
I honor my ancestors by singing the song of creation through my ass.
Bravo! Mine is
Here I sit, broken hearted. Tried to shit but only watched twelve hours of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Dude I just had this same experience recently. Hadn’t seen them in at least a decade or more. They are not aging well. I know they are older tech but I even feel like the cinematography and special effects are pretty rough around the edges. And i love watching old movies. I love LOTR but yeah probably not gonna watch those again.
It was pretty unique for its time. Now everything is just yet another fantasy world. I’d argue it’s mediocre when comparing it to the rest of what’s out there now.
The “Lord of the Rings” is not a character driven book and the same goes wirh the film adaptations. It is plot driven with heavy focus on world building, which can either make it an amazing or a boring experience. Depending on your preferences.
Based on the list of your favourite films (excellent, BTW, some of my own favourites are there) you seem to prefer character driven ones. So I can easily understand why you find the LOTR films boring.
LOTR itself is world building through characters, and building characters through their reaction to the world.
The films are just action with lots of nice views.
I love that the top comment isn’t everyone piling hate upon the poster but rather an analysis of why they most likely don’t like the series.
It is my favorite comment
Makes a lot of sense. And thanks btw. I love Tarantino’s dialogues.
I mean it’s no Crank starring Jason Statham but don’t worry. I’m sure they will release another Fast n the Furious sequel for you soon.
Copied,
because you didn’t read it:Favorite movies are:Memento
Reservoir Dogs
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Shining
You got one of my top three on your list and the rest is probably top 25. I approve your list.
I’ll take “Movies that High Schoolers think makes them seem deep” for 500, Alex.
Have some balls and post your letterboxd, then.
Bro, minus Everywhere All At Once, because it came out more recently, I could probably pull my high school yearbook and find that EXACT LIST… from 2004. Although you’re missing Requiem For A Dream and Fight Club. Gotta step it up bro.
Yes! That is exactly how I imagined you! How’d you know?
Oh, and I bet there’s some black and white movie you really love too! Maybe Dr. Strangelove? Omg you’re so quirky!
Everything Everywhere All At Once
What a shitter of a movie
Lucky for you Memento 2: Tokyo Drift comes out this fall.
You didn’t watch that movie, did you?I am idiot and realized too late
Sure I did, this is my
(Before anyone complains, notice the gigachad, I am just saying I know you are fucking with me and shitposting)
That’s a hella trippy gif
I love datamoshing
You might think this is an unpopular opinion, but for many it is a reality, I don’t know anyone in real life that liked the movies for example (my sister loved HP and Twilight but fell asleep with The Fellowship of The Ring).
Here in Lemmy is definitely an unpopular opinion.
Lol bullshit. You’re either lying or live under a rock.
Huh?
Idk why you’re getting downvoted. I loved LOTR, but thought HP and Twilight were boring, so obviously it can go the other way around too.
Exactly, one needs to understand people near around you might have different tastes, is not so complicated ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I liked LOTR and HP. Twilight (the books and the movies) were utter shit. I won’t pay for any HP stuff now though, since she came out as a bigot.
The only people I’ve ever met who share this opinion are people who’ve spent their entire life viewing things that are fast-paced action movies or movies where characters are defined entirely by a handful of quippy one-liners and a melodramatic flash back and then have all of their character development confined to a singular moment of epiphany. Movies where they would be alphabet level predictable if they didn’t move onto the next hackneyed trope at whiplash inducing paces.
If you spend your entire life watching the cinematic equivalent of cocaine of course sobriety is going to be boring.
Last month. I’d tried watching them many times before and always fell asleep, but this time I was engaged the whole time.
Yeah they were way too emotional in the movie. I much prefer the seriousness of the book where they acted like mature adults. And Gandalf was more badass in the books, and Gimli wasn’t just comic relief in the books. But the visuals were amazing in the movie. 10/10 for visuals.
In the books they acted like saga characters with some transcendent (in otherwise medieval surroundings) knowledge of the ideals of French revolution and Catholic distributism mixed in strange ways.
In the movies they acted like entertainment park animators. Too much superficial glossiness, too little of the feeling of the book, say, Barrow-Downs, I still remember how the descriptions of the rain and the sun and the stones felt.
