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Title: Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings is Utterly Awful
Article: Look at me. Look at me. Hey, Internet, over here. I said something controversial. Pay attention to me.
Right. When people say “don’t feed trolls,” this is the contrarian bait they’re talking about. Not assholes and bigots.
Well yes, but don’t feed assholes and bigots either.
Calling out bigots and assholes isn’t “feeding.” That’s the problem. Telling people to ignore outright bastards just leads the bastards to escalate. You should absolutely identify their bullshit and bluntly tell them where to shove it - and more importantly, forums need to allow calling out bullshit.
Any moderator demanding “respect” and “civility” is creating an environment where cautious monsters have free reign, unless they also proactively fight politely-phrased abuse. If someone has good reason to say “fuck off,” and you remove the response but not the cause, you are a force multiplier for that abuse.
But this schmuck? Yeah, ignore that. It is of low quality.
That’s a bit mean. Why aren’t people allowed to have genuinely held opinions anymore? Why is everyone who disagrees with you faking?
There are some sadly misguided individuals who think LotR movies are actually good. This post will dispel that unfortunate delusion.
That tone of arrogant superiority is why. This is clearly rage baiting, it would have made it to the second sentence without insulting its potential audience if it wasn’t.
Maybe the author is just really upset and feels the need to be mean about it. I don’t see the need to be mean back, condescension in an article never hurt anyone.
It’s literally rage bait
I don’t believe rage bait is this common. There’s no evidence for this conspiracy theory that the author is hiding anything.
Why else would he be writing about a movie that came out twenty years ago?
Might as well write an article about how shitty you think Lawrence of Arabia is.
We are on a sublemmy devoted to a 20 year old movie. People still watch LOTR.
The trick is this to have genuinely held opinions without publishing poorly written articles about it. I do that all the time, and I can warmly recommend others to try it, too!
I think talking about one’s opinions is human nature and it’s pointless to oppose it.
Calling people who disagree with you misguided when it comes to purely matter of tastes is not just talking about one’s opinion, but is in fact insulting other people for no reason. So fuck the author of this particular article.
Well, I think it’s funny. I appreciate an author who has style and passion, it keeps me invested. It’s not like anyone’s opinion of the lord of the rings matters, so I couldn’t possibly be offended no matter what I thought of the movies.
Not every opinion is worth sharing. Even if you do, talking annoys only one person, whereas publishing articles online annoys the whole world.
I don’t think every article ever published is read by the whole world. I think most of them are read by about as many people as the average Lemmy post
You do get the difference between talking and publishing though, right? And the fact that not all opinions are worth sharing? The “whole world” was a figure of speech.
Some of these websites are so simple that publishing an article takes as much effort as posting a Lemmy comment. There used to be a difference, but there isn’t anymore.
If the article starts with “seriously”, you know to not take it seriously.
That guy sounds just like my dad.
While I’m all for criticism where it’s due, harping about something for decades doesn’t make you any more fun to listen to.
The first trilogy is great.
The second trilogy ran about 5 hours too long.
I saw a pretty good three hour cut of all three Hobbit movies. I don’t remember what it was called, but I think they only used like 20 min of the last movie.
I’m guessing not much of Fast and Furious: Minecart Racing made it into that cut.
Maple Films’ edit is pretty good. Chops out the majority of the dwarf backstory, all of the wizard side quests, and significantly cuts down the superfluous action sequences, resulting in a strong narrative which follows Bilbo’s story exclusively, as it should.
don’t get me started about that cringey romance arc too…
Yeahhhh that really wasn’t necessary at all.
The animated Hobbit movie from the 70’s is still better than the Peter Jackson trilogy just on the music alone.
But his LOTR trilogy is better than the animated LOTR one. I mean… It at least finished the story.
I think there’s an animated Return of the King by the same people who made the animated Hobbit. I haven’t seen it though so idk how good it is.
I’ll always miss the scouring of The Shire. I know the movie didn’t need more endings, but it is a big part of Frodo’s end and it’s the big payoff for Merry and Pippin
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!
Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!
I always rate my movies by volume of Tom Bombadil.
Peter Jackson asked him if he wanted to be in the movies, but he just trotted along saying “Goldberry is waiting”
So I don’t blame him. I wouldn’t keep her waiting either.
Does that fluctuate based on how well Goldberry’s been feeding him?
Here’s the article, btw.
not gonna lie, the author does make a few interesting points
Gimli is a vehicle for cheap gags
This is a fair point in particular.
Yeah I think the story benefits from some humorous beats, but maybe not like that, in retrospect.
Yeah, in retrospect, the movies kinda did Gimli dirty.
What I’m driving at is that by making everyone flat, no one can grow. When Boromir falls for the Ring, everyone in the audience saw it coming from a mile away. When Denethor goes suicidal, there’s no surprise because he’s a raving madman from the moment we meet him.
Damn
But if it were like he’s suggesting, people would complain that those characters final(ish) actions were out of character and it would make no sense for them to do those things. Just because you can see something coming doesn’t mean it isn’t enjoyable to watch. If you saw two trains heading towards each other on one track you wouldn’t look away simply because the you see the outcome coming. There’s a difference between foreshadowing and being predictable and imo it’s not good criticism.
Right, and I think Denathor is a good example. Spends his screen time being an asshat. Very satisfying when he gets what’s coming.
Right I guess that’s partly down to the medium of movies. Probably not enough screentime to devote to a more subtle character evolution.
Jfc the ads on that page are obnoxious
Guess my ad-blockers are doing a great job. I was completely unaware.
Unfortunately I was browsing away from my pihole at the time
Whoever wrote that article is a servant of Sauron.
Imagine being this vocally stupid
This post better not be anything except a long tirade that omitting Tom Bombadil as an additional 2 hours of content is a travesty.
I’ve done it before. But I had the good grace to apologise.
Witless worm detected.
I mean … the warg fight in the second film is pretty bad. Even Mr. Jackson copped to that part being … under produced.
Must be a book reader
As a book reader, I still don’t get it. The LOTR movies are probably the best book adaptations of all time. I can’t think of very much they could have done better. The extended editions really make the trilogy sing. Would a book reader want this to have been MORE than 13 hours? That’s ridiculous.
The best adaptation is Forrest Gump because they got rid of all the over-the-top bullshit in the novel and turned it into a great story
If you feel it’s that bad, create better.
But in all seriousness, while I do think the films are alright, they are nothing compared to the books. People should definitely read them before watching the adaptation, it really is an experience.
I read the books as a child and young adult multiple times before the films came out. The films are fantastic and a solid adaptation for a different medium, they got the feeling down even if some parts were left out as part of the change to the other medium.
The Hobbit movies are hot garbage though, and I blame studio meddling for those.
On the Hobbit movies, I don’t even think studio meddling was the biggest issue.
Peter Jackson had so much time to prepare for the original trilogy, where as he took over the Hobbit movies quite soon before they were scheduled to shoot and he couldn’t use the preparation the previous director had done.
So he had no time to prepare and basically had to wing it with 3 movies and little to no prep.
