The Hunt for Gollum
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Isn’t not have source material a good thing?
I’m seeing this as a positive
1: Rings of Power set the bar that low even if they fell over, they would still clear it.
2: They can’t **** over a man’s lifetime work and call it progress by updating “problematic dated” source material and have to updated it for a modern audience!! You know the one they are having trouble finding in the mass numbers they think exists.
I’m seeing this as a positive
1: Rings of Power set the bar that low even if they fell over, they would still clear it.
2: They can’t **** over a man’s lifetime work and call it progress by updating “problematic dated” source material and have to updated it for a modern audience!! You know the one they are having trouble finding in the mass numbers they think exists.
Still plenty of Rings of Power hate for being a recent supposedly poor adaption of the IP, but does anyone remember how bad The Hobbit was?! It was really, really bad.
Really bad.
With all the buffoonery and lack of threat, they pretty much ‘Phantom Menaced’ the original trilogy.
Really bad.
With all the buffoonery and lack of threat, they pretty much ‘Phantom Menaced’ the original trilogy.
Caporegime
It's like adapting the bible. It's a huge disconnected story with no central thread, a ridiculously large cast of characters over a ridiculously large period of time.
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YepStill plenty of Rings of Power hate for being a recent supposedly poor adaption of the IP, but does anyone remember how bad The Hobbit was?! It was really, really bad.
Really bad.
With all the buffoonery and lack of threat, they pretty much ‘Phantom Menaced’ the original trilogy.
I would rather watch ROP season 1 again than ever have to sit through 8 hours of Hobbit nonsense.
Agreed. I think most people would agree that ROP sagged into ‘bad’ around 3/4 eps. in, but I also think it had at least couple of pretty good eps. towards the end. Definitely not enough to make a ‘great’ series but I’ll tune in for the second.
… and yeah, when The Hobbit wasn’t in ‘Phantom Menace’ mode, it was just foreshadowing the events of LoTR films… uh, great.
“… take heed… a much better and more exciting film that you’ve already seen… is coming.”
So underwhelming… even in the cinema and being a fan of the book
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It's very disapointing that out of all the reams of Lore to dig into we get a Gollum movie...? Come on guys.
Great to see the old faces back at the helm after Amazon's epic disaster, but it also comes with the modern "stories yet to be told" red flag which never bodes well. Apparently the whole Hunt for Gollum section is dealt with in the books in a paragraph.
Hype level 4.5/10.
Great to see the old faces back at the helm after Amazon's epic disaster, but it also comes with the modern "stories yet to be told" red flag which never bodes well. Apparently the whole Hunt for Gollum section is dealt with in the books in a paragraph.
Hype level 4.5/10.
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Yes, the Hobbit was not at all good. I enjoyed Mr Dragon but a trilogy Mr Dragon does not make.Still plenty of Rings of Power hate for being a recent supposedly poor adaption of the IP, but does anyone remember how bad The Hobbit was?! It was really, really bad.
Really bad.
With all the buffoonery and lack of threat, they pretty much ‘Phantom Menaced’ the original trilogy.
:Not at all LOTR expert edit: It feels like they could do an "animatrix" or Black Mirror style series for The Silmarillion, I mean that in concept rather than production/style etc. Totally disjointed and isolated stories (perhaps some multi episode ones for the larger pieces?) set in different obviously very different times but connected thematically/in terms of cinematic vision.
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Soldato
I hope it's as good as the game.
Go on, somebody put this in their sig.
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At least I actually watch the shows I comment onYou literally have the worst takes ever though so...
Rather than spend hours in threads, criticising stuff I have only seen via YouTube commentators
Caporegime
Urgh, *****
Tout!!There was already one done (short) in 2009 "by the fans for the fans" so it will be interesting to see what this brings to the table with much bigger budgets and production values.
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Yes, you definitely do watch a lot of crap.
Here's a list of good shows I've just completed: Fallout, Shogun, The Dropout, 3 Body Problem, The Fall of the House of Usher, Sexy Beast, The Gold, Yellowjackets...
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Soldato
Ah ok, got it..tar.
Caporegime
Looks like the fan film is back up because of the outcry.
Soldato
Not a film I was expecting but I do hope anything spawning out that universe is good. ROP was utter trash so the bar is as low as it comes.
Out of everything they could do I'm sure there's better subject material for a spin off? Having no jrr source material aside gollum is not a character you'd be rooting for as a viewer so I hope the title is a bait and switch. Wonder what the budget will be as I'd take it as an indication of the studios belief in the script.
Out of everything they could do I'm sure there's better subject material for a spin off? Having no jrr source material aside gollum is not a character you'd be rooting for as a viewer so I hope the title is a bait and switch. Wonder what the budget will be as I'd take it as an indication of the studios belief in the script.