The PJ trilogy still holds up today.
That’s a pretty high bar
Lightning in a bottle, very unlikely to happen a second time. They tried a few times and failed miserably. But you never know.
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I was trying to describe to my MIL (who hasn’t seen the Hobbit movies) how they were bad. I ended up with
Do you remember the barrel scene in the Hobbit? How would you describe it?
“It’s kind of where Bilbo really felt his confidence, where he tried the ring for the first time and rescued the dwarves, and they snuck out down the river to the city”
Great great, and do you remember the battalion of orcs trying to kill them while they went downstream with Legolas and Tauriel doing sweet kick flips over them, while Bombur bounced around jokingly killing a dozen of them, and then Fili having a moment of weakness for his elf princess love while he opened the gate and then he gets shot with a poisoned arrow?
…no
Well there you go.
They took one of the most endearing moments of the book and made it a joke. No, they cannot recreate the Lord of the Rings. Even if you don’t like PJ’s version, there’s just no way modern Hollywood can do to improve on it.
while people will still rewatch LOTR in decades.
Ah, I prefer “reread”. LOTR movies too have quite a lot of downsides. Like ignoring the whole of the Old Forest. And they lack the lore feeling which I can’t describe easily.
Just don’t watch it.
You don’t have to watch every damn thing involving your fandom. It’s pure capitalistic greed at this point.
Let a franchise fucking die already.
Demand better movies and don’t engage with film as product. Find passionate storytellers and not greedy corporate executives looking to milk every last drop of nostalgia for profits.
Exactly. Quit feeding them
Still haven’t watched rings of power, probably not now that I cancelled Prime after the ad fiasco.
Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War were fun - but very non canon.
Anyone who bought Gollum at all should take what you’re saying to heart. Zero true fans of the Middle Earth world would put any money down for that game. If anyone bought it because they were a fan they deserved to lose their money, zero of the marketing material looked like it was going to be a quality product or decent addition to the story.
Rings of Power was enjoyable to watch, I treated it as billion-dollar fanfic and didn’t worry that everything was out of place
I’ll have to check it out some time, we’ll see. It’s on prime though so…
but yeah, a remake is a real bad idea
And if you watched it and don’t like it, don’t spend all your time shitting on the people that did
New “Lord of the Rings” movies scheduled to be cancelled after completion by David Zazlav for a tax break
I desperately hope so. The amount of effort that went into the current movies cannot be matched by anybody in Hollywood except maybe Christopher Nolan.
Or you know… Peter Jackson again.
Why, though? He already made two trilogies.
You said the level of effort can’t be matched. It certainly can by the same man.
I know I wouldn’t like his attempt at that in its entirety, if it happens, but yes.
Would give multiple stars to this comment if I could.
Is it just me, or had anyone else lost all hope for good Lotr shows after Rings of Power? I saw lots of potential squandered by poor writing, and I fear more Lotr content is just going to be more content, not good stories.
Christopher Tolkien was blocking a lot of things. Even the Jackson films sneaked by and wouldn’t have been made of he could have stopped it.
He’s dead now, and the new heirs to the rights like money. They also have about 20 years before the copyright expires. Which isn’t that long; that’s about as much time between now and the Jackson films. To keep ahead of the clock, they’re greenlighting a lot of garbage and risk running their franchise into the ground.
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It wasn’t obvious it would be bad before release, much of the compliants I saw were mostly unfair criticism made in bad-faith.
It wasn’t exactly bad, it just wasn’t good like it could have been.
were mostly unfair criticism made in bad-faith.
Wrong color criticism, one can phrase it. Both in what you imply by “bad faith” and in the reason you do that, as it comes from a different pole of the society.
Only many of them were not that kind of complaints, so you only have your human social instincts to blame (and those who abuse those - it’s similar to being scammed).
It’s a bit like Disney played the “racist fans” card against those who didn’t like their Star Wars movies. So even those people who said and say they loved them have mostly lost interest to Star Wars in that very period.
It became socially dirty to criticize those movies, but the amount of the “approving” fans who still left the fandom shows the real reception.
Yep. Money grab.
I lost all hope when they greenlit the license to be used for…Golum.
Nasty capitalistses…
So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us
And since this is on Lemmy… the answer is pirate it when it comes out then bitch about how bad it is. Then turn it into Linux memes and communism.
So I tried to find more info on it and it seems like they are not remaking the trilogy. Multiple movies set in various time periods before the Hobbit and LotR are currently written. That’s not really great but it is way better than a remake IMHO.
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The copyright expires in 2044. The Perter Jackson series came out 2001-2003. From a studio point it is approaching the now or never time. They need to make one within the next few years to be able to make a 3rd one just before the end of copyright. From a studio buisness perspective this makes sense and is kind of a no-brainer.
This shit needs to stop. Same with Marvel, Star Trek, Star Wars…. All of this shit needs to stop.
The new Trek series have been, with one exception, great. Oh, do you mean the fuck terrible movies? Yeah.
what? Have you seen other versions of discovery or picard than I did? only current good StartTrek show is the Orwell…
I mean ALL of it. Those franchises need to die.
Hard no, boss.
Completely agree. Strange new worlds and lower decks are absolutely amazing trek shows, Picard season 3 was pretty good even though I didn’t care much for the first 2 seasons and even though discovery is typically the least liked of new trek, it’ll always have a special place in my heart since that show is what made me a trek fan in the first place.
I’ve since watched ALL trek content except for most of TOS and TAS, it’s just to old for me. I’ve watched the most highly recommended episodes but I just can’t get into that show and I’ve tried multiple times.
Don’t worry, neighbor. Humanity’s about done here and allll that shit will stop.
As a Star Wars fan I say this shit has gotten so egregious that for most intents and purposes it has already stopped.
Ever since the extended universe was declared non-canon, Star Wars died for me.
When that happened we started regretting to them as fan fiction, it made my friend very angry.
Eh, somewhat disagree. I think some series have big potentials for spinoffs or side stories. The Disney Star Wars movies were terrible, agreed, but some of the shows are fantastic.
Marvel (and DC for that matter) is finicky. Comic books are, by their nature, extremely continuous, so there will always be more content to adapt. Whether or not it’s good or worth adapting is dependent on both the comic series and the producers’ capabilities, but that’s another issue.
I mean, I’ll give an example. The Last Airbender, fantastic show. It could have ended there and we’d all be satisfied. But The Legend of Korra, while not as great as TLA, was still (imo) very good. But the Last Airbender movie? Yeah, we all know it sucked hard.
I wouldn’t say writers should never ever look to make spinoffs or side stories to existing content, but obviously it should be good, and it’s demonstrably possible. Star Wars gave us The Clone Wars, Breaking Bad gave us Better Call Saul, and I mean on a somewhat relevant note, LotR gave us Shadow of Mordor, which I really liked. New, original content [edit: as a sequel to already existing content] can be good… but obviously, not always.
i love how nobody sees this as good news
takes one glance at Amazon
Gondor has no remake. Gondor needs no remake.
Alas, it is not for Gondor to decide what the copyright holders do with them.
This is an article from February 2023 about War of the Rohirrim and similar projects, not a remake of the 2001 trilogy.
If I was going to do more lotr content, I’d probably do something with the Eastern front of the war. What did the blue wizards get up to?
Likely rot in some pit
The thing is that, even if these new ones are the most awful media ever produced. It doesn’t change anything about the old ones. They will still stay awesome. They don’t depreciate just because other media exist. Or that would have already happened with the Rings of Power.
I just wish they put this time and effort into other franchises. I want more Discworld.
I want more Discworld
so do I, but also fear that executive meddling would butcher the originals beyond all recognition
Hard no
