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Corpsepyre
Banned
Looks fine. I'm not hyped, but I'll check it out.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Nope. My expectations are very low.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
No. Not in the slightest. I watched the new trailer, but still have no hope or hype for this fan fiction.
BadBurger
Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Eh, it still doesn't say "Lord of the Rings" to me outside of how they replicated the wardrobe design from the films. I mean they appear to have gotten Galadriel - Galadriel of all characters! - so wrong that if there was a three second bit of her slow motion soaring through the air on a skateboard while dual wielding repeating crossbows I wouldn't have batted an eye.
I am going to be going in with such low expectations that I will be shocked if I don't like it at least a little.
Edit: you know what this reminds me of? Remember when the X-Men film and Spider-Man were hits so all kinds of development studios started making absolutely awful comic book adaptations that didn't understand their source material? When they were all aping The Matrix and looked boring and uninspired with people slow motion jumping around? That is the exact vibe every trailer from this show has projected. Boring, whack 2000's era comic book adaptations. What a travesty for such a beloved property.
I am going to be going in with such low expectations that I will be shocked if I don't like it at least a little.
Edit: you know what this reminds me of? Remember when the X-Men film and Spider-Man were hits so all kinds of development studios started making absolutely awful comic book adaptations that didn't understand their source material? When they were all aping The Matrix and looked boring and uninspired with people slow motion jumping around? That is the exact vibe every trailer from this show has projected. Boring, whack 2000's era comic book adaptations. What a travesty for such a beloved property.
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VN1X
Banned
Never going to watch this shit but when do these movie studios realize that they can upload to youtube in 4K at the low low price of free?
Had to watch that trailer in the tiniest screen possible on youtube in order to not get bombarded by the artifacting.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.1
Lord of the rings has always had a chip on its shoulder it did a number on game of thrones.
Hari Seldon
Member
Looks beautiful, but the music choice is like terrible lmao.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
Banned
I have never seen so many dislike to like ratios as the Rings of Power trailers
Fbh
Member
Terrible music for the trailer.
Anyway I expect this to be on par with GOT Seasons 7-8. Entertaining and with spectacular production values for a TV show, but bland writing and ultimately forgettable.
Still think people saying this won't be a massive success are kidding themselves. Nostalgia + popular IP + great production values + most people don't care about the books or lore + probably going to review well = the writing, acting and characters would have to be extraordinarily terrible for this to fail
Anyway I expect this to be on par with GOT Seasons 7-8. Entertaining and with spectacular production values for a TV show, but bland writing and ultimately forgettable.
Still think people saying this won't be a massive success are kidding themselves. Nostalgia + popular IP + great production values + most people don't care about the books or lore + probably going to review well = the writing, acting and characters would have to be extraordinarily terrible for this to fail
Why can't they make a trailer that gives us an idea of what this show is about? It's just a lot of poetic words from people who clearly aren't poets.
Just from the trailer I can tell this is poorly written, and there is nothing here that compells me to watch.
I'll watch the first episode, I'm a huge fantasy and Tolkien fan so I can't resist, but it's in spite of everything they've been showing.
Also, the soundtrack is out now. With a title track by Howard Shore, so anyone who truly thinks amazon are distancing themselves from the movies can yet again, think again.
It's okay, Shore's minutes of work are easily the best though. McCreary's music is unusually lifeless. Just big and epic with little heart. Kind of a let down. Been a fan of his since Battlestar.
Just from the trailer I can tell this is poorly written, and there is nothing here that compells me to watch.
I'll watch the first episode, I'm a huge fantasy and Tolkien fan so I can't resist, but it's in spite of everything they've been showing.
Also, the soundtrack is out now. With a title track by Howard Shore, so anyone who truly thinks amazon are distancing themselves from the movies can yet again, think again.
It's okay, Shore's minutes of work are easily the best though. McCreary's music is unusually lifeless. Just big and epic with little heart. Kind of a let down. Been a fan of his since Battlestar.
ManaByte
Member
They literally showed the WETA Balrog in the last trailer. Who's thinking that?
The whole reason New Line is a co-producer on the series is so it can access the movie designs.
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Of course it'll be huge.
Some naysayers claimed House of the Dragon would flop, and it's setting records instead.
I'm not concerned with it flopping or not, I just want it to not be shit.
I've seen a few. Some people on here argued that the new elven look is so they can differentiate themselves from the movies, to mention something.
ManaByte
Member
Those people are probably the same who think this is a remake of the LOTR book, not a series set during the Second Age some 3,000 years before the movies.
NoLootBoxDev
Member
That Saurona.....Well not sure if it is true or not, but it seems they sex change Sauron gender
Philfrag
Banned
I know art is subjective and all that but to be me this looks awful. Everything looks flat and fake, overdramatic, Americanised, bereft of any identity or vision, which is hilarious considering its Tolkien. Oh well, you have to appreciate the scorched earth approach to adapting beloved franchises. Best to burn it all down and start anew.
ThatStupidLion
Member
low expectations. not very hyped.
I will say I'm more interested in at least checking this out compared to the new GoT
I will say I'm more interested in at least checking this out compared to the new GoT
Ristifer
Member
Looks okay, but the faux epic nature of these kinds of trailers is grating. Just non-stop platitudes to sound dramatic.
"We must keep going... forever."
"In our heart of hearts, we will overcome..."
"Trust in yourself... never anyone else."
"Look forward, as the past should have no reflection..."
"You have a fighting spirit. Don't ever give in..."
And so on. These aren't even in the trailer, but you can just insert these lines into it. They're interchangeable.
"We must keep going... forever."
"In our heart of hearts, we will overcome..."
"Trust in yourself... never anyone else."
"Look forward, as the past should have no reflection..."
"You have a fighting spirit. Don't ever give in..."
And so on. These aren't even in the trailer, but you can just insert these lines into it. They're interchangeable.
Javthusiast
Banned
Hyped? No.
Will I watch it? Obviously.
Will I watch it? Obviously.
I haven't met anyone like that.
Show is pretty inconsistent in what they keep and change though, so I can't really fault them too much.
ManaByte
Member
Aside from Elrond at the Last Alliance (which is the end of this show), what from the Second Age did they show in the movies that the show is changing?
Hari Seldon
Member
Well, elves are clearly aging in this show. Look at Calibrimbor, doesn't look elven at all, just like an avergae british pub owner in his golden yearswith big ears.
I also find the costume design rather poor. It's stylistically different, which can of course be explained with so much time passing, but I find it more calling that the costumes look cheap and, well, in the movies the costumes looked like clothes, here, the costumes look like costumes. It doesn't look lived in and like it has purpose. I mean look at that ridiculous helmet Miriel is wearing, while riding a horse, in front of an army (maybe they're not going to war, but the trailers sure make it looks like she's going to war). It's a nerdy topic, but if you're interested there are some pretty good youtubers dealing with it.
The effects make it looks expensive, but the important stuff looks cheap.
Ulysses 31
Member
I think harfoots are a breed of hobbits(there's 3 types) but the showrunners say they're not hobbits.
Oh yeah, that too. Yeah, Harfoots are hobbits, one of three types mentioned in the beginning of Lord of the Rings (might have been The Hobbit, but pretty sure it was lotr). That's some funky bending of the lore, lol. The showrunners saying they are harfoots, not hobbits, is some dumbfuckery. Harfoots are hobbits.I think harfoots are a breed of hobbits(there's 3 types) but the showrunners say they're not hobbits.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
You really like to $trawman your damage control.
FunkMiller
Member
Fuck off with your auto tuned pop song shit.
I‘m so underwhelmed by everything about this.
I‘m so underwhelmed by everything about this.
Trogdor1123
Member
Looks good. Should be interesting. I’ll give it a go
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
It seems fine. Guess we'll see soon.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
I prefer the previous trailer... The look is AWESOME but this trailer must have been done by a different editing house.
NecrosaroIII
Ultimate DQ Fan
It's funny. Galadriel is of the same generation as Celebrimbor's father, yet here she looks like half his age. Nothing in the texts makes him seem particularly "old" by elven standards.
Well, they're condensing thousands of years into a generation ot something, so yeah, age fuckery is to be expected.
Ammogeddon
Member
Awful music choice.
Thirty7ven
Banned
Lord of the Woke
Looks shameful, fake, a product made for a data collected audience.
Looks shameful, fake, a product made for a data collected audience.
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Seriously. Who is paying this guy?
Hari Seldon
Member
Yeah I'm holding out hope. It might be a fools hope though. Amazon has been really really really bad with their other shit. Wheel of Time is basically 100% fanfic, and hol-e-fuck The League of Their Own casting makes Rosie O'donnell in the original movie look like a professional baseball player compared to the 50 year old soccer moms they cast in the latest one lmao. Of all the flaming piles of dumps on original material I have never seen anything worse than league of their own.
strange headache
Banned
Couldn't even make it to the end.
Two minutes of pseudo-motivational one-liners that sound like they are ripped straight from a dollar store calendar dressed against shitty autotune popmusic is the last thing I want from a LOTR trailer.
"Our hearts even bigger than our feet"... uh huh, and Amazon's wallet is bigger than their ambition, ability or understanding of what makes Tolkien truly great.
Two minutes of pseudo-motivational one-liners that sound like they are ripped straight from a dollar store calendar dressed against shitty autotune popmusic is the last thing I want from a LOTR trailer.
"Our hearts even bigger than our feet"... uh huh, and Amazon's wallet is bigger than their ambition, ability or understanding of what makes Tolkien truly great.