Just watched this again yesterday and it was awful.
>scale of time and space is sometimes wildly distorted, like how Gandalf rushes to research the ring, seemingly on the other side of middle earth, and returns to extract Frodo. There is no mention of how much time this takes, but by the time Frodo gets to rivendell Bilbo has already beat him there AND finished writing a book
>that shitty choppy faux slow motion that is used throughout. Is there a name for that?
>every shot by the heros lands with 100% accuracy while hundreds of arrows from the enemy just magically pass around them
>yeah ill just run into this mob of orcs because I'm so badass and the laws of this movie say I can't die
>cheesy action scenes "I think I'm getting the hang of this!" says the hobbit who also apparently can't die and has 100% hit rate.
>somehow walking hundreds of miles on a backpack of food
>wizard never wizards when everyone is being pulverized by a cave troll. Also cave troll hits you so hard you fly across the room and you just shake it off and go back to fighting
>objects that are introduced so they can save the day one time and then go back to practically not existing, e.g. mithril vest
>"lean forward!" 1000ton pillar is somehow affected by this

>>212106795 (OP)
Godawful opinion, neck yourself you zoomer tard.

>>212107024
>he fell for it

>>212106795 (OP)
The first one is 10/10 the other two are 7/10 at best

>>212107052

>>212107065
I feel like the sfx and editing are probably more modern in the other 2, but now I'm 2nd guessing whether I should rewatch them. Its just gonna be more of the same plot gymnastics and cheesiness

>is there a name for slow motion
slow motion

>>212106795 (OP)
Gondor is probably 30 miles away from the Shire, on a horse that's literally nothing. The Hobbit is a short book and there was nothing to distract him from writing because he was no longer in the Shire. the heroes are naturally good at combat because they are the ones who were nominated by their respective nations to go to the Rivendell ring summit. Middle Earth doesn't have car infrastructure so there's lots of wildlife to hunt while you're traveling its roads. Gandalf got out-dueled by Saruman AND The Witch King showing how he's not the best battlemage and his wisdom and virtue are his greatest strengths. the Mithril vest is the only legitimate grievance you have here.

>>212107478
>the Mithril vest is the only legitimate grievance
It is not legit. It comes back in RotK in a fairly pivotal way.

>>212107402
Come on. Its so dated and campy. There needs to be a name for it

>>212107573
yes. slow motion

>>212107478
They show Sam and Frodo walking for days before reaching Bree, and the Shire appears to be waaay out in the country, and I'm supposed to believe there's a massive human city just 30 miles away?? The shire would be crawling with Gondorians in that case. 30 miles between the shire and Gordor makes it seem like all of Middle Earth is no larger than Ohio

>>212107618
Its not slow motion though. They aren't showing things down just making them choppy. It's more like laggy framerate

Childhood is thinking 2 and 3 are the coolest shit ever because of all the action set pieces.

Adulthood is realizing 1 was the best all along and it’s not a little close. Only movie where the fellowship is all together so you get a coherent story. And the shire stuff is just perfect

>>212106795 (OP)
Too white for ya huh
You should check out rings of power

>>212108201
>ignore everything I said and rebut something I didn't say
I think I'm starting to understand why this movie is so popular: its fans are idiots apparently

>>212107065
>>212108109
I think the first one is so well liked because it's pure adventure. The heroes have a clear goal: to move from one destination to another, always pushing forward. The storyline with Rohan, however, has characters moving back and forth.

>>212108490
We all know what you said is bullshit
The real reason you're here is to shit on the good version, so you're subversive black washed shit version doesn't look so bad
Did you get tired of shitting up the board with the Star wars prequels are actually good trolling or did the andor advertising budget from Disney finally dry up

>>212107478
>The Hobbit is a short book
No.
>the heroes are naturally good at combat because they are the ones who were nominated by their respective nations to go to the Rivendell ring summit
I get that but they seem mythically overpowered. Is the book like this or is it more realistic. In reality there are probabilities other than 100 and 0.
>Middle Earth doesn't have car infrastructure so there's lots of wildlife to hunt while you're traveling its roads.
hunting takes time. Also what were they hunting on the snowy mountain pass, and how were they cooking it?
>Gandalf got out-dueled by Saruman AND The Witch King showing how he's not the best battlemage
>he's wise
He didn't realize his boss who lives in a sinister tower is evil so, how wise could he be?

>>212108667
>doubling down on a bad movie because the remakes are pozzed
you're just proving my point

>>212108841
Can't green text properly, shitty trolling

>>212108816
inb4
>he expects a fantasy movie to be realistic lmao
they have gravity, they have electromagnetism. Is 2+2=4 in middle earth?

>>212106795 (OP)
congratulations on your transition zoomer

>>212107052
lol that guy actually deleted his post saying my opinion is awful zoomer retardation. why would he want to take that back?

Are you actually complaining about realism in a film about magical fucking space wizards and white people being noble elites?

>>212109037
sorry but I beat you to it fag >>212108933

>>212106795 (OP)
I know you won't, but you could really benefit from reading the books
They would be the best things you've read in your life, and not because they would be the only things you read in your life, other than shitposts on a thai snorkling forum

>>212108924
Retard

>>212109065
> Fucking implying gravity works the same way in lotr as it does irl considering the world is flat.

>>212109243
>the book is better than the movie
So that's why you think the movie is good? Again I am understanding why this awful movie is so beloved

>>212109401
Middle earth isn’t flat during lotr. Anyway there’s no such fucking thing as a flat earth so what fictitious gravity formula is up your ass

>>212109401
>middle earth is flat
source?
Also
>thinking there is more than one type of gravity
>not only that but a "fantasy world gravity" that is empirically the same in every way and yet somehow not simply gravity as we know it
I suppose the potatos in LOTR were fantasy potatoes and not just potatoes. The rocks are fantasy rocks and not just rocks formed by geological processes.
>no rocks in middle earth were forged by Lord Rock in the age of rockforgening
Literally all the physics of middle earth is modelled after the physics of reality, so why would I assume that basic statistical principles do not apply? Is it fantasy statistics that's the same as statistics of reality but somehow different so as to make this movie good in your mind?

>>212109510
the books explain your questions and doesn't have issues of Hollywood driven action scenes and quips

>>212108816
>I get that but they seem mythically overpowered. Is the book like this or is it more realistic.
In the book you don't see scenes like whole Moria shooting at Fellowship and missing.
>He didn't realize his boss who lives in a sinister tower is evil so, how wise could he be?
The tower didn't look sinister when he came.
>b-but it's black
Because it is made of black stone, like the first wall of Minas Tirith (in the book).

>>212108100
Step printing?
Wong Kar-Wei uses it more pronounced.

>>212109895
>source?
Middle-earth WAS flat but it's not anymore.
Akallabeth
>And those that sailed futhest set but a girdle about the Earth and returned weary at last to the place of their beginning; and they said: 'All the roads are bent now'.
>I suppose the potatos in LOTR were fantasy potatoes and not just potatoes.
Actually they are similiar plants from the nightshade family.

>>212110135
I'm sure its 100x better and I'm going to read it, and then i will probably dislike the movie a lot more

>>212110538
The fantasy nightshade family or the real one?

>>212111222
Real one, just like pipe-weed is 'variety probably of Nicotiana'

>>212110380
It has a name! Thank you

>>212108109
>the first one is the only one where the fellowship is all together
Maybe that's why they called the first one "Fellowship of the Ring" and not the others?

>>212106795 (OP)
Fellowship will always hold up because it's always been the best of the trilogy.

Why is Saruman killed at the beginning of ROTK instead of in the scouring of the shire?
And if its because budget/time constraints, why have it at the beginning of ROTK and not at the end of Two Towers where it makes sense?
And then why film such an important scene involving two of the main villains in the movie and cut it entirely from the theatrical release?

>>212113936
This one really makes no sense especially when Two Towers is filled to the brim with timewasting filler slop.
What was the entire point of having Aragorn fall off a cliff and wander his way back if it had net zero effect on the story?

>>212111166
>>212110135
My favorite parts of lord of the rings are those "boring" scenes involving long prose and describing meals that Jackson cut out of the movie because people supposedly hate them.

>>212113994
It showed that Aragorn was in as much peril as anyone, and the fellowship had to continue even if the king himself is kia.

>>212106795 (OP)
bitches don't know about lembas