Please tell me I'm not the only one who cries at multiple points throughout the trilogy

>>212308977 (OP)
*shoves you into a locker*
*clears throat*
NEEEEEEERRRRRRRRD!

>>212308977 (OP)
It's probably the most beautiful trilogy in Hollywood history. It's a miracle it got made at all.

>>212309044
Only the first one is good, the rest is goody capeshit

>LOTRslop
fuck off ranjeesh

>>212308977 (OP)
>the scene where Gandalf describes dying
>the "there's some good in this world and it's worth fighting for" Sam monologue at the end of Two Towers
>the "do not be so quick to deal out death and judgement" Gandalf monologue
yeah there's a bunch of scenes that get me misty eyed

it happens to me too

>My friends...
>You bow to no one

>I would have followed you, my brother... my captain... my king
Bros...

>you will never ride to glorious death with your bros

I cried buckets last time I watched them. I couldn’t shake the context that he wrote them with his own experience from WW1 in mind.

>>212309044
why a miracle?

>>212309229
he didn't write the movies, jackass. if you cried, it's bc of jackson & walsh.

>>212310046
A relatively unknown director convincing a then-small film studio mainly known for horror movies to give him about 1 billion dollars so he could film a ten hour long movie over the course of two years is pretty crazy

>>212308977 (OP)
Get on my level. I have to suppress tears if I even THINK about these movies.

>>212310177
Kneel. I sob for no reason whatsoever.

>>212310132
Seriously. Look at everything Jackson made before LotR, and after. They are complete and utter aberrations in his filmography. And they WOULD have been embarrassing garbage had enough people been too afraid to tell him "Fuck no" during the production.

>>212310238

>>212308977 (OP)
not really, it gets a bit mawkish and drags on and on. the final rohirrim charge still gives the goosebumps though

>>212310238
anon youre just a woman

>>212310271
Interesting, I can't find anything on Wikipedia which describes why/how he got the job.

>>212308977 (OP)
The films are garbage.

>>212310682
He was the only person asking for it. LotR at the time was a was not a lucrative IP, nobody *really* gave a shit about holding the rights to it. And the production company, New Line Cinema, was not a major studio and was mostly known for making the Nightmare on Elm Street films. By the late 90's though, Freddy flicks had basically run their course and New Line needed a new cash cow.

>>212311651
Then I guess I'd say it's not much of a miracle, then. No one wanted the job, he shows up with storyboards, easy as.

It's okay to cry when Faramir and his company go on their suicide charge. The dialogue between father and son just before that scene is soul crushing.

>>212310046
the amount of time and money put into it with no idea if it would work

>"Give them a moment for pities sake!"
>"I would have followed you, my king."
>"No father should have to bury his son."
>"DEATH!"
>"Think better of me father."
>"Home is behind..."

>>212313340
>"I am no man!"

>TODAY IS MY ONE HUNDREDEFLNLHOHELJLEVENTH BIRTHDAY!

>>212309044
>>212309067
They are all dogshit. Godawful editing, cheesy script, and 50% action scenes with terrible choreography to keep the retards happy.

>>212313488
>t. jaded zoomie with no good movies, books, art or vg to his generation's credit
Nobody thought that when they first came out. They were revolutionary.

>>212309186
how can aragorn be his brother his captain and his king? this is a pretty big plot hole

>LOTR
Movies about men and masculinity, the total antithesis of modern entertainment. Timeless, beloved, soulful, kino.
>Rings Of Power
TV show about women acting like men and men acting like women. Total garbage, will not be remembered.

>>212313488
Careful with that edge kiddo.

When the elves come to help at helms deep

>>212308977 (OP)
>"For Frodo"
>anything with Theoden
>the Breaking of the Fellowship
>Frodo leaving for the West

>>212314049
>We are proud to fight alongside Men once more.
yes.

>>212314049
>Haldir, How did you get here so fast?
>Elf
>Oh okay

>>212310682
iirc, jackson was interested in remaking king kong at the time, and had weta workshop do a bunch of prototype work on that (on a shoestring budget), which ended up being proof of concept that he could create the necessary digital elements to make a lotr adaptation work.

>>212316822
That would do it.

>>212308977 (OP)
It gets harder not to, the more I experience and the more times I rewatch.
I'm so tired bros, how do people do it? How do they hold out hope things will get better? How do they make it a whole lifetime? I feel like I'm getting weaker the longer I go on.

>>212310682
iirc weta workshop was fully tooled to pump out high quality weapons and armour for the film which reduced the cost of production by orders of magnitude which convinced Hollywood investors

>>212318082
That's just because you're getting old but never became a man. You need people in your life who would become seriously worried if they saw you break down because you're their meal ticket. That forces you to not lose it for silly shit like gay midgets on a rock.

>>212318199
Doubtless, they used the same workshop for the armors in Amazon's RoP?

>>212318082
every kinomovation in LotR is someone fighting for kin and country, and something more than just themselves. think of your favorite family members and pals do it for them

>>212313340
>and my city to ruin!

>>212313711
It's a Numenorian thing, you wouldn't understand

>>212308977 (OP)
>gimli made into comic relief
>pipeweed, explicitly tobacco, made into marijuana
>precision handcrafted dialogue from a fucking oxford chair philologist discarded in favour of 20 IQ bantz
>legolas shieldboarding
>commercialization reducing the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing
I cried too, anon, nothing to be ashamed of.

>the Hobbits crying after Gandalf's fall
>Boromir's death
>"No parent should have to bury their child."
>Sam's speech in TTT
>Gandalf describing death
>The Edge of Night
>I can carry you
>The end of all things
>Gray Havens
>The start of the credits with everyone's portraits

>>212319840
Oh and
>I go now to the halls of my forbears, in whose mighty company I shall no longer feel shame."

>>212319840
>"The last pages are for you, Sam."

It was proto-capeshit and shits on Tolkien's legacy as bad as the Hobbit trilogy or that shitty ripoff Rings of Power slop. It gets hyped up because the casting and beautiful scenery. Look past the nostalgia and you see it for the disgrace it actually is. I still cannot believe how overhyped this garbage is.

>>212310132
It was the Weinstein's that said yes. Jackson only wanted to just make one, maybe two. It was Harvey who knew there were three books, so why not do them all?
Then Harv met Cate Blanchett....

>"Something for the road."
>"The last of the Longbottom leaf."
>"I know you've run out; you smoke too much, Pippin."
>"But...but we'll see each other soon? Won't we?"
>"I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen."
>"Merry...?"
>"Run, Shadowfax! Show us the meaning of haste."