Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

jayrebb · Feb 17, 2022

Chukzombi said:
they got a ton of views on youtube, it didnt go the way they thought.

attention for all the wrong reasons

Chukzombi · Feb 17, 2022

jayrebb said:
attention for all the wrong reasons

they're using bots now to cover up. the youtube trailer had 15k likes to 24k dislikes on Monday. its up to 90k likes to 72k dislikes now. everyone knows that youtube videos blow up the most in the first few days they drop and then its a steady decline. here its the opposite.

Guurn · Feb 20, 2022

The amount of crapping on this is pretty funny.

Tsar Bomba · Feb 20, 2022

Burns said:
I have rewatched a bunch of 70s movies, semi recently, and they were just as entertaining. There are plenty of high rated 70s movies that I didn't like, but I doubt, if totaled up, that the 70s would be any worse than the 50s, 60s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

Movies I have watched/rewatched in the last 10 years that were still good:
MASH
Chinatown
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Sting
Alien
Marathon Man
Patton
Life of Brian
The Man Who Would Be King
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
The Poseidon Adventure
Kelly's Heroes
Jeremiah Johnson
The Shootist (one of John Wayne's best movies)
Force 10 from Navarone

There are probably more but I would need to look through an more exhaustive list and try to remember when I last watched them (and confirm they were from the 70s). There are other moves I have watched multiple times, from the 70s, just not in the last 10 years.

TV shows are more difficult to compare due to Hollywood brining movie production to premium cable channels when HBO changed the paradigm of the small screen. I watched Monty Python on Netflix recently, it was still entertaining, but I don't generally rewatch any TV shows from before the Sopranos era.

The French Connection and it's spiritual sequel The Seven-Ups.

And if you go back to 1967...

Chanur · Feb 20, 2022

Burns said:
I have rewatched a bunch of 70s movies, semi recently, and they were just as entertaining. There are plenty of high rated 70s movies that I didn't like, but I doubt, if totaled up, that the 70s would be any worse than the 50s, 60s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

Movies I have watched/rewatched in the last 10 years that were still good:
MASH
Chinatown
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Sting
Alien
Marathon Man
Patton
Life of Brian
The Man Who Would Be King
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
The Poseidon Adventure
Kelly's Heroes
Jeremiah Johnson
The Shootist (one of John Wayne's best movies)
Force 10 from Navarone

There are probably more but I would need to look through an more exhaustive list and try to remember when I last watched them (and confirm they were from the 70s). There are other moves I have watched multiple times, from the 70s, just not in the last 10 years.

TV shows are more difficult to compare due to Hollywood brining movie production to premium cable channels when HBO changed the paradigm of the small screen. I watched Monty Python on Netflix recently, it was still entertaining, but I don't generally rewatch any TV shows from before the Sopranos era.

I do love The Shootist. In my top 5 Wayne flicks probably.

kroenen · Feb 20, 2022

Guurn said:
The amount of crapping on this is pretty funny.
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Jive Turkey · Feb 21, 2022

Grizzlebeard said:
I remember watching this back then and enjoying it but I was less of a LOTR fan and more of a D&D fan.

I love how in the shots with hundreds of people charging into battle, the animator was like "I'm not fucking rotoscoping that many people. Just put the original footage in and crank the contrast or something"

Jive Turkey · Feb 21, 2022

McCheese said:
I fucking love Where There's a Whip There's a Way.

There was about a 20 year period in my life where I knew that song from somewhere in my childhood, but had no fucking idea where it originated

Big Phoenix · Feb 22, 2022

"first black elf!"

Nothing demonstrates how utterly retarded these people are than blowing their load over the "first black elf" when black elves and non whites in high fantasy happened when they where in diaper;

Animosity · Feb 22, 2022

I love that movie as a kid, and even back then I knew it was terrible lol

Burns · Feb 22, 2022

That D&D movie was the only movie I walked out of the theater on, mid way through. I have refused to watch anything with Marlon Waynes in it, ever since.

Gavinmad · Feb 22, 2022

Burns said:
That D&D movie was the only movie I walked out of the theater on, mid way through. I have refused to watch anything with Marlon Waynes in it, ever since.

No bullshit you missed out on one of the most amazing performances of Jeremy Irons entire career. I mean yeah the movie is awful but the way he hams it up as the evil wizard is nothing short of epic.

Ossoi · Feb 22, 2022

Dog Day Afternoon

The 70s is probably the best decade for movies ever.

Mahes · Feb 22, 2022

Ossoi said:
Dog Day Afternoon

The 70s is probably the best decade for movies ever.

I can think of many movies that released in the 80's. Only a few really stick out for the 70's.

Chukzombi · Feb 22, 2022

Mahes said:
I can think of many movies that released in the 80's. Only a few really stick out for the 70's.

the 70s was more about cerebral films, shit that made you think. scary movies were much scarier that way, they had to make up for low budgets. the 80s was a lot of blockbusters with more focus on big effects and grand events. less focus on subtle nuance. I'm not saying one is better, but each era is definitely different than the other.

Grizzlebeard · Feb 23, 2022

Chukzombi said:
the 70s was more about cerebral films, shit that made you think. scary movies were much scarier that way, they had to make up for low budgets. the 80s was a lot of blockbusters with more focus on big effects and grand events. less focus on subtle nuance. I'm not saying one is better, but each era is definitely different than the other.

Cerebral you say.

Chukzombi · Feb 23, 2022

Grizzlebeard said:
Cerebral you say.

yup, unless you're implying the decade was all Rocky Horror movies and not just some campy cringe movie.

jayrebb · Feb 23, 2022

last i checked apes cant be elves

theres no features of an ape that would work in a convincing manner

Ossoi · Feb 23, 2022

Chukzombi said:
the 70s was more about cerebral films, shit that made you think. scary movies were much scarier that way, they had to make up for low budgets. the 80s was a lot of blockbusters with more focus on big effects and grand events. less focus on subtle nuance. I'm not saying one is better, but each era is definitely different than the other.

For once you've hit the nail on the head.

Grizzlebeard · Feb 23, 2022

Grizzlebeard said:
Cerebral you say.

The point is for each movie you claim is cerebral in the 70s I could toss out a Rocky Horror, Star Wars, Rollerball, or Superman.

Similarly, with the blockbuster action flicks of the 80s I could list a French Lieutenant's Woman, Mystery Train, or The Shining.

A healthy industry is a varied one. Unfortunately that's not the way it is right now so much.

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