I thought the Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies was actually better than the books. Though I read the books well after I had seen the movies 3-4 times through. I've fallen asleep in two movies in the theater as an adult, Hobbit 2 and Hobbit 3. I hope they spent the money on extras dressed up as Orcs, and not that cartoon Orc shit in the Hobbit movies.
Are you a comic book reader? No shame by the way, I just read watchmen a little while ago and it’s an incredible book
Exactly the same, I don’t fall asleep on my couch while watching a movie and I almost did watching the first one of the second trilogy in the theatre, that part when they go see the elves and that little music kicks in. I was fighting to stay conscious.
The Watchmen was the first graphic novel I've ever consumed. I read it because the show on HBO was so good. The Watchmen is incredible.
Said it before, will say it again. Peter Jackson condensed WW1 into an experience that is a tight 99 minutes in "They Shall Not Grow Old." Which is deeply moving. And the Hobbit: a young adult novel before such a thing existed into a 9 hour slog.
ya second age Want to see Ar-Pharazon start worshipping Satan (Morgoth) due to Sauron’s influence, and lead his armies against the Valar.
That money is a misnomer I’m sure. First season is of course going to cost a fuck ton because a lot of the set up costs will be incurred for the first. I’d assume the real number when factoring in some of those fixed costs being spread over multiple seasons makes it significantly lower, but still an astronomical sum.
There are some additions in the movies I really enjoyed but I hated how he portrayed Gimli. I understand having to leave out the scouring of The Shire but if you're comparing the movies vs the books it has to be brought up. Disclaimer, They're my favorite books of all time and I really just wanted to reply, "NUH UH FUCK YOU YOU'RE WRONG!"
I think this is correct. Amazon paid $250 million just for the rights to adapt it and I bet that amount is included in the budget listed just for Season 1.
between stuff like this and all the sporting rights they're buying up, I gotta assume at some point just my $100 Prime subscription isn't going to get me access to all of this stuff anymore.
I never bothered to see the Hobbit movies and this validates that. This looks like absolute dog shit.
if you ever want to see the definition of phoning it in, it’s what Jackson did for those movies even with the excellent casting
The Two Trees of the Valar from The Silmarillion. In the background of the picture is at least one of them.
Understood. I wouldn’t have placed it without Heavy Mental ’s post. If you enlarge the picture you can see that both of them are in the background. The White Tree of Gondor is descended from the one farthest back. if you ever have the opportunity to read the Trilogy and The Hobbit, you should. There are great parts not included in the movies. The Silmarillion, on the other hand, was like slogging through mud at times. Some of it was, for me, a difficult read.
It’s my favorite book. Utterly epic in scale. The reason seeing the trees in the trailer is significant is because it implies that we will see at least some of the First Age brought to screen. The First Age has so much wonderful storytelling. Couldn’t be more excited, and really hope it is done well. My understanding was the series only had rights to the Second Age, so this is really a surprising development. For reference, the Silmarillion deals with the First and Second Ages. The Hobbit and LOTR take place in the Third Age. You can think of the Silmarillion as the mythology of the world that the characters in the Third Age live in. One of the masterful parts about Tolkien is how he weaves references to things that happened in the First Age through the Lord of the Rings, like Aragorn singing the Lay of Luthien in reference to Arwen.
I'm usually an optimist about this type of stuff, but goddamn, this is a situation I really don't want to be disappointed. Fucking Hobbit films, man.
To put it in relative terms, the two trees are integral to the creation myths of Middle-Earth, so what we’re seeing in that still is referencing events thousands of years before the events of Sauron’s first war of the Ring, much less those in The Hobbit and LOTR.