lmao we're rowing in this boat togetherCouldn'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.
Fool of a took.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.
Don’t look to closely at the armor. They went with shirts and long sleeves instead of real armor.Damn, that does look REALLY expensive.
That bugged me in the hobbitIf elven swords don’t glow blue near orcs we riot.
Sting, gandalfs sword and oakenshields sword all should glow near orcs. Any sword of elven steel glows. Thems the rules.
When I was watching LOTR I was thinking why isn’t glamdring glowing. It should. They just wanted to set Sting apart. But I want swords to glow and dragons to blow.That bugged me in the hobbit
No. In the hobbit GLAMDRING which Gandalf takes and oakenshields sword orcrist from the troll hoard all glow. They were elven swords. Elrond talked about them when they made it to rivendale and talked about the swords histories.I thought Sting only glowed near goblins? :S
No. In the hobbit GLAMDRING which Gandalf takes and oakenshields sword from the troll hoard all glow. They were elven swords. Elrond talked about them when they made it to rivendale and talked about the swords histories.
in the movies they only made sting glow for clarity and making it easier to find on screen.
Ah ok. Been a while since I've read the books.
Does it have the stupid song from the trailer.The soundtrack is available in spotify.
No, thats Ex Makina - Breath from trailer music firm.Does it have the stupid song from the trailer.
House of Dragon did half of the numbers that the season finale of GoT did.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.
Probably because the people who make these trailers have no idea what the show is about, either. They probably just cobble up a bunch of "cool" scenes and give them to some dude with a video editor and say "here, make a trailer out of this shit and put some random music over it."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.
And is the biggest premiere is HBO history. It's a succesd. What matters now is what happens with viewership further down the road.House of Dragon did half of the numbers that the season finale of GoT did.
And then it releases ; it’s great , (or not) but here everyone has already made up its mind![]()
Hbomax is a very young service, hard to say what "best premier EVA" really means in context of their shows from the past. And if no one watches ep2 of HotD...trust me, they wont be cheering about that premier anymore.And is the biggest premiere is HBO history. It's a succesd. What matters now is what happens with viewership further down the road.
Hbomax is a very young service, hard to say what "best premier EVA" really means in context of their shows from the past. And if no one watches ep2 of HotD...trust me, they wont be cheering about that premier anymore.
I joined hbomax primarily for this show, if it heads downhill I absolutely will cancel my sub. It's really the only way to influence future shows to be more like what I want.
But back in the day most folk had HBO through their cable subscribers, so I don't think they had the kind of global reach hbomax does today and exact stats.The articles said biggest premiere in HBO history, not HBO Max history. If that's an error on their end I can't comment, but they did dofferentiate between HBO and max in the articles.
Moot topic anyways till be see next week's numbers.
very large potentialThis has the potential to be the biggest money flop ever
turns out money can't buy good writing lolvery large potential
I think there is about 10% chance it's watchable and 90% of it being various degrees of failureturns out money can't buy good writing lol
They credit for The Boys though. One of my favorite shows on right now.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.
But back in the day most folk had HBO through their cable subscribers, so I don't think they had the kind of global reach hbomax does today and exact stats.
Just saying that it is much harder to do viewership comparisons between services.and reaching back in time because the landscape is quite different today. HBO says it was the largest premier in hbomax and I'm sure that is true, it just is more difficult to put that into context alongside other shows as a ranking of popularity.
Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad were excellent, but I could not take any more of itLooks and sounds both janky and super polished. Shame about the uninspired writing and dialogue so far in the trailers.
Oh well, back to finishing up the final session of Better Call Saul (great show btw), so that I can get started on my Breaking Bad rewatch.
I'm not dogging it, I'm still watching the show. Just saying that the statement that it was their largest premier, when it pulled half of the prior shows finale, is a hard number to really parse. Plus GoT was NOTORIOUSLY pirated like CRAZY, so is HotD only getting 1/4th the legit paying views? What where they hoping for? What do they need to keep making it? What is the metric for success? IIRC they canned 1-2 other GoT shows already, so there is a lot of catch-up HotD has to do to pay back all that investment. So if it MUST pick up right where GoT left off, well, so far they ain't there yet.This is basically just a lot of bla bla, yadda yadda trying to downplay what HBO themselves call the biggest premiere in HBO history (not max history, I looked it up now).
No matter how you try to spin this, HotDs premiere was a huge success, drawing 10 million viewers.
Commenting on future numbers is meaningless until we have those numbers.
Why is it so hard to accept that people were lining up for this?
Oh, and btw, I streamed all seasons of GoT on HBO Nordic, so it's not like streaming wasn't a thing back then. GoT was huge, internationally.
I used to love that show but I bailed like 4 episodes into the latest season. The plot was just spinning its wheels and I lost interest.They credit for The Boys though. One of my favorite shows on right now.
I'll have to check it out.I used to love that show but I bailed like 4 episodes into the latest season. The plot was just spinning its wheels and I lost interest.
The best show on Amazon by a country mile is Mrs Mazel. (This is not really a typical gaf show tho lmao). That is the one show that could be on HBO in its golden age and fit right in. They do big dick filmaking like having a 10 minute back-stage to front-stage Burlesque scene with zero cuts. Seems like the directors skilled enough to pull this type of shit off are stretched too thin in the streaming wars these days haha.
I'd buy that for a dollar!I'll have to check it out.
I'm not blown away by the plot of The Boys, but it's enough to keep me interested. The characters are just funny enough to keep me hooked and the general tone of the show is like watching the sarcastic dark commercials in Robocop, but all the time lol.
That’s all fine , judge the trailer .. but most write the hell series off by these ..If you dont want early impressions dont release a trailer.
If the objective was to go crazy with special effects why not tell the story of Fëanor or something like that?
This bit worries me some:This review is glowing, hype rising!!!
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