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
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.
Makes a lot of sense. And thanks btw. I love Tarantino’s dialogues.
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
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.
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And pages upon pages describing mountains. The Hobbit was an amazing book though.
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And then sang some songs about trees. For four pages. Again
I can’t wait to turn the next page.
Edit: Were they riding though?
I’m a patient and voracious reader. Fuck LoTR. My god it’s the most boring shite I’ve ever attempted to read.
As someone who had a LOTR wedding theme, take your upvote and get the fuck out of here.
ok.Ours was Portal themed and nobody got it but us. Fine.
Damn, I would have appreciated that. LOTR was huge in Australia and my family/friend group so it worked out.
LOTR is by no means a trilogy for everyone, I hope your guests liked the premise, or at least appreciated it (it was your day though, so the most important thing is that you had a blast).
Pretty nerdy friend group but honestly it was just a light theme for the reception, no pressure to dress up. Made the drinking more fun for all I think
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
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)
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!
That’s a hella trippy gif
I love datamoshing
You got one of my top three on your list and the rest is probably top 25. I approve your list.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
What a shitter of a movie
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.
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.
Rewatches movies
Complains there’s no surprises
Haha, right! Gandalf straight up falls into a pit with a demon-being and then comes back. If someone predicted that then that would be incredible.
I watched it 20 years ago when I was a kid mate
I’m just saying, what, did you expect the movie to change each time you watch it?
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.
Well … take you’re upvote. Now go burn in hell.
(Watched all extended editions last year).
My family watches it every year
-the dialog is pretty iconic
-story is simple, it’s fine though
-the characters are pretty simple, but they are still interesting in their own way imo
-the ending to return of the king does undeniably drag
Honestly I think it’s a pretty polarizing film series. It takes some huge gambles in including a lot of pretty deep lore and details that most people probably don’t care about. Most people i know who’ve seen it say they either love it or found it boring. I’ve never met someone who said the series is “pretty good”.
I will say, the lack of reliance on plot twists makes it more rewatchable. That and the absolutely beautiful sets and costumes. In today’s age of CGI and now AI, we will never see the like of it again. EDIT: How could I forget the soundtrack?
I worked in a theater when Return of the King came out and there were often audible groans from people after the 2nd or 3rd fade to black then opening on another scene after 3 hours
Happy cake day 🍰Thanks! :)
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:
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.
I agree that a story so iconic that spawned endless imitations in the last 70 years might feel a little clichè…
About the dialogue, what did you expect? Frodo and Sam talking about the real meaning of Like a Virgin while climbing mt. Doom? Of course it is plain, the script isn’t triyng to present something unexpected like a Tarantino movie, it’s all about each character’s lore and world building and the dialogue serves this purpose very well
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.
