Thread 212941506

On a recent episode of his talk show, this man admitted to watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy once a month, every month, for decades.

Is this based, or psychotic?

>Is this based, or psychotic?
It's nerdrotic

>>212941506 (OP)
Autism

>>212941506 (OP)
He's just lying

>>212941506 (OP)
pretty fuckin lame. moderation in all things is the best approach.

>>212941506 (OP)
Once every 2 years. And even then when I do I rewatch at this point I have to be drunk and I make a drinking game out of it and do other shit in the background. Seen them too many times to sit through them all uninterrupted

>>212941633
I don't think so, he seems pretty honest. He even admitted to smoking crack while staring at his drug dealer's dead body.

>>212941506 (OP)
You should read The Holy Bible instead.

>>212941662
About once every five years for me I'll watch some lore videos on YouTube and eventually end up reading the books or watching the movies again.

>>212941506 (OP)
>Is this based, or psychotic?

Both.... I watch LotR frequently, but only once a year.

Me and the wife have this ritual every New Years Day, after power-drinking and dance on the Eve before, we spend the next morning hungover and binging all three LotR extended version, and just sit and do nothing.

>>212941506 (OP)
Overexposure leads to reduces enjoyment

>>212941506 (OP)
he had to replace the heroin with SOMETHING.

>>212941506 (OP)
I like lotr as much as anyone but this is pathetic manchild behavior.

>>212941712
Or it leads to some sort of ascension. The guy who watched Captain Marvel 180 times came to notice so many little details and plot points that nobody else would have ever caught.

>>212941506 (OP)
I constantly replayed my TPM vhs tape until it wore out and I wasn't even that crazy about it.

>>212941506 (OP)
I mean, look at him.

>>212941506 (OP)
Nah, the entire trilogy once a month is just a massive waste of time. Unless he's "watching" while working on something else. Also, does he watch the extended cuts or theatrical?

>>212941951
I put on background movies all the time while I work. It’s comforting.

>>212942019
Bad idea. I tried that the other day with Kingsglaive and ended up watching the whole thing. I'll just stick to Pandora.

>>212941506 (OP)
He constantly goes on about having no time, but then will let slip shit like "So, I was watching Buffy again..."

>>212941951
He didn't say, but anyone who is so obsessive they watch them monthly you can be pretty sure they watch the extended.

>>212942019
I do that with old episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000

>>212942246
Same as James Rolfe. Every unemployed person I know is always out of time somehow.

Culture wars commentators idea of culture is a thin slither. They only like things that they can defend that are seemingly beyond reproach. Liking something else is too scary because it opens them up to criticism. They never venture outside of that comfort zone. All the do is endlessly bitch about Disney blockbusters or whatever whilst talking about the same few movies. It is impossible to argue with people like this. Everything now is bad or political and stuff on the past is good and never was political. They want stuff that's similar to what they liked before but will also bitch about every little thing. It's pointless and sad.

>>212942309
But he's not unemployed. The weirdos on that reddit sub are. The truth shall set you free or whatever it was called.

>>212941506 (OP)
This affects your life or is of your concern how exactly?

>>212942354
If you are a YouTuber, you are unemployed. Same with acting, singing, and basically anything to do with entertainment, it's not real work. The less you do each day, the more "out of time" you feel.

>>212941506 (OP)
>le ragebaiting in 2025
I hope this nigger kills himself

>>212942391
No, it's still work. If you want to argue technicalities, he doesn't have a boos, but that doesn't mean he isn't employed to make his content.

>>212942314
It's an easy living when 99 percent of current media is shit.

>>212941506 (OP)
>leaving something on in the background
yeah.. that doesn't count as "watching"

>>212942391
This is a retarded take one would see only on the internet.

>>212942584
>>212942453
Sounds to me like you are some sort of wannabe "content creators". No it's not real work, you have no job, you have a hobby.

>>212942649
does he get paid? then it's a job.

>>212942649
I work a 9 to 5 in an office. Content creation is very much work, especially if you're trying to make art, which is difficult. But even regular content like vlogs can be work if you truly want to make a living off that.
That isn't to say a lot of youtubers don't make trash content, but that's just what lazy work ethic looks like.

>>212942649
sounds to me like you're just jealous that somebody is making an income doing something they enjoy instead of breaking their back for mr shekelberg

I doubt it. I don't know why he would bother mentioning this as there's no way to prove it. Watching LOTR once a month doesn't give you any more credibility as a Tolkien fan than reading the books once a month or the like.

>>212942649
If you are doing something that's makes money to pay the bills every month then you are employed. Ask the government if you think otherwise and see how that goes.

>>212942744
Breaking your back at an actual job every day makes you a much healthier person mentally. Pushes you out of your comfort zone in a way being a "creative" never can. There's a reason so many creatives are drug addicts, porn addicts, slobs, afraid to leave the house, or obsessed with politics.

>>212942531
To be honest, when has that not been the case? In the golden age of Hollywood, b reel movies (where we got the term b movie from) were all samey and mostly shit comedies, musicals, westerns etc. The past looks great because we forget all the crap and boil it down to the good that's remembered. Problem now is more quantity and how difficult it is to refine stuff down.

>>212942920
No I lived though it and the percentage of quality at the top of the scale was much higher.

t. saw SW (before it was called ANH) in the theater as a kid on opening week.

I don't care for LotR but this is unfathomly based. He'll go far in life with that kind of religious fanaticism of works of fiction

>>212943253
I lived through things as well and guess what? No one remembers what movies were in theatres when big hits were on. Because most stuff was always crap so the good stands out against it. Big hits though were easier to make as people weren't being pulled in so many directions.

>>212943253
>I think 99% of stuff is shit now
>I think 99% of stuff was always shit
>Uses the example of Star Wars to disagree
Huh? Star Wars was a huge cultural phenomenon. That doesn't mean that all culture back then was better. That just means SW was huge.

It's absolutely psychotic. Something used to really irk me about LOTR fans and after finally looking into a mirror over my own obsession with certain franchises from the east I realize I've probably looked the same on the outside to people when I mention how much I used to like Dragon Ball. Pooling over topics on this website especially highlights that essentially what we're all spinning in a circle for is over the absence of God in our lives. LOTR shows "something" that might hold some possibility since Tolkein borrowed a lot from the Bible. I sometimes look at online discussion and it can appear ravenous. Almost cult-like. I'll check out posts that can give a laundry list of lore-leaning reasons to back up decision making in an artificial world in some nonsensical setting yet never being able to come up with at least three verses of scripture from something God has said in our world about our people.

I get the strong feeling that this is why God is going to say "Depart from me; I never knew you." to ALOT of people. You came home and instead of opening up a book to be with the Lord and give thanks you ran to escapism. To eagerly throw your attention into else but. It's a shame.
>B-but there are Christian themes in there
God is a jealous God. I honestly believe he leaves LOTS of breadcrumbs to come to his glory where we're supposed to extract that we're supposed to get on the path that leads to Him. So tear Him out of the equation that was used to inspire this work of fiction to land at your lap, throw away the fiction and seek more information about God and the Kingdom of Heaven.

>>212943468
There's pre and post SW science fiction movies and everything changed after SW. Prior to SW all we had was the umpteenth crappy to barely passable sequel to Planet of the Apes and stuff like Logan's Run.

After SW came out big budget movies across the board changed. Even outside of Sci Fi. The the quality went up because SW showed studios three was massive money to be made with big budget blockbusters. So they put more money and effort into it unlike the middle tier movies we got before like Logan's Run.

There's a clear through line from Star Wars all the way to all time classics like Alien, Aliens, Predator and every big budget sci fi blockbuster that followed.

It was a golden age that ran all the way through Endgame. (Or IW if we are nitpicking because Endgame is overrated)

After that the industry got derailed by woke social justice. Now post woke social justice we are in the mass market Netflix algorithm age with relentlessly mid slop like Superman. So yeah, things used to be better.

>>212941672
So the answer is he’s psychotic then

I don't get it but some people do stuff like replaying a video games every year. Watching the same movie over and over seems like something you stop doing after childhood.

>>212943856
take your meds

>>212943602
That was to let you know that I wasn't a LARPING zoomer and I have literally seen every big budget sci fi movie since Star Wars. I'm talking theatrical releases. Not VHS/DVD/Streaming.

I saw that garbage movie 20 years ago and never looked back
only faggots and poofters rewatch slop like that

>>212941506 (OP)
Based and psychotic. I watch them every year with my family around Christmas.

>>212944847
>only faggots and poofters

I don't know if that's what you were referencing but Pic Rel is in my top ten fav all time

I think he's lying.
>>212944106
Germane to the thread I think the post Star Wars blockbuster essentially ended at Lord of the Rings.
Iron Man and what came after is its own animal.

>>212941506 (OP)
>Is this based, or psychotic?
He's a grifter with a tinge of psychosis. I don't believe for a second that he's actually sitting down and engrossed watching these movies, he probably has them playing in the background while he works out or edits his videos to reinforce his memory of them. Why? Because he's savvy enough to know the LotR trilogy are hailed as objectively good, even if they're not truly faithful to the books. He can compare literally whatever he's ragging on at the moment to LotR to legitimize his criticisms, and the more vividly he can describe scenes from LotR, the more genuine he appears.

>>212941506 (OP)
He's clearly fried his brain after all the drug use.

>>212941506 (OP)
The bigger issue is that he glues dolls to his walls. You can't put up some shelves or get a glass cabinet?

YOU watched a video of this faggot. That's more embarrassing than watching LOTR trilogy daily

>>212944984
The golden era of blockbusters literally ended with Endgame what are you talking about about.

>>212941506 (OP)
My roommate in college would go to sleep to Interstellar every night for 4 years, it's just autism anon. He was completely normal in every other way though.

>>212941506 (OP)
>>212945109
>watches the same movie over and over and over again
>Glues dolls to his wall
>Big giant retard glasses
He's just autistic.

>>212945045
Alec Guinness seems extremely Arab to me, both his face and his personality.

>>212941506 (OP)
Am I the only one that thinks only Fellowship is GOATed and the rest are just good?

>>212945232
>He's just based>>212945232

>>212945045
>I play pretend in banal frivolities, let me tell you how to live your life

>>212944994
>He's a grifter
What is he grifting, comrade?

>>212945663
Would almost agree because I like Sean Bean as Borimir so much, but I like all the stuff to do with freeing Theodin and the battle of Helms Deep too much, so for me Two Towers is best. I could skip Return of the King.

>>212943856
>I've probably looked the same on the outside to people

Ah, we have a woman here, who preoccupies herself with how she looks to le other people. Didn't read the rest.

>>212945774
I'm pretty sure those are memes dude. There's a shit ton of them same with Jaden.

>>212945808
Culture war crap to saps. You should see the donators on his Friday live shows.
>Thank you for telling me this comic book movie is woke and bad! Here’s 500 dollars my good sir!

>>212945823
For me it's FOTR >>ROTK>>>>TTT

To me Fellowship is just leagues better than the rest. It's pretty much the only major blockbuster in history with a true holy trinity party going on an actual d&d style quest.

>>212941506 (OP)
who the fuck are you some unemployed amazon rings of power shill with a chip on your sholder?

>>212945958
Ah, you much more prefer critics who get first class flights, goodie bags, industry access and USAID money.

>>212946056
Eric Butts has more integrity in his mole than Nerdrotic has in his entire body.

>>212943856
I’ve never ever looked down on other for being fanatic about a series or franchise, if someone has a room full of lewd loli anime dolls then hey good for them, but then again I’m a huge dork as well and I’m not even a real gamer or anything, like most people here would consider me a causal but I know normal people who drink beer and watch sports would think I’m a huge dork as they are either way. Truthfully I wish I could believe in a god, but I’ve been through a lot of weird things in life and I just dunno if I ever could, I’ll never be an atheist if that ever makes a difference

>>212946137
Here comes the Disney Adult. Time for your Ironheart rewatch.