The Rings of Power (new Amazon series based on Tolkien)

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Raider4

05 September 2022, 05:01:48 PM #30

QuoteBuffy was OK for a few years as it seemed to understand it's own cheese level. 
Ahh, no children there. Cordelia was played by a 27 year old and Xander by a 26 year old when the series started. Even Alyson Hannigan was 23. At least Sarah M-G was a teenager (just).


They were all supposed to be ~16-17.

See also Grease.

flamingpig0

05 September 2022, 05:05:05 PM #31
Quote. The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. The worst type is dictated by demographics or what is hip or what kids are into." - Peter Jackson


C'est magnifique mais ce n'est pas Tolkein.

That is from the guy who turned the short children's book into three interminably long films and inserted a sexy female elf and a love triangle into them!
"I like coffee exceedingly..."
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"We don't want your stupid tanks!" 
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Raider4

05 September 2022, 05:06:24 PM #32
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C'est magnifique mais ce n'est pas Tolkein.
I enjoyed the first two episode - much better than, say, Wheel of Time or The Witcher - and will keep watching.


Having Galadriel as the focus removes any sense of peril. We know she's not going to fall from an icy cliff, or be eaten by a sea monster, or die in any other way.

Raider4

05 September 2022, 05:07:49 PM #33
QuoteThat is from the guy who turned the short children's book into three interminably long films and inserted a sexy female elf and a love triangle into them!
I wonder if it's possible to strip out anything and everything not in the book from those films and make a decent  coherent film?

flamingpig0

05 September 2022, 05:09:30 PM #34
Quote from: Raider4 on 05 September 2022, 05:01:48 PMCordelia was played by a 27 year old
So beyond the dating age for late middle-aged Hollywood actors.
"I like coffee exceedingly..."
 H.P. Lovecraft

"We don't want your stupid tanks!" 
Salah Askar,

My six degrees of separation includes Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, and Wendy James

flamingpig0

05 September 2022, 05:19:00 PM #35
QuoteI wonder if it's possible to strip out anything and everything not in the book from those films and make a decent  coherent film?


Possibly - as long as they keep the female elf


also - is this really really Tolkien or Frank Herbert?

"I like coffee exceedingly..."
 H.P. Lovecraft

"We don't want your stupid tanks!" 
Salah Askar,

My six degrees of separation includes Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, and Wendy James

Big Insect

05 September 2022, 06:47:41 PM #36
Quotealso - is this really really Tolkien or Frank Herbert?


Quote from: flamingpig0 on 05 September 2022, 05:19:00 PMMore Harry Potter unfortunately - why introduce the worm burrowing things I don't know ... at least the LotR films seem to remotely stick to the basic plot - no new monsters.
But then we got Billy Connolly on a Goat in the last Hobbit movie and it all went a lot Games Workshit (sadly)

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Steve J

05 September 2022, 06:55:33 PM #37
Well we're enjoying the series for what it is at present, without trying to over think/analyse it.

Big Insect

05 September 2022, 08:17:33 PM #38
Quote from: Steve J on 05 September 2022, 06:55:33 PMWell we're enjoying the series for what it is at present, without trying to over think/analyse it.

Thanks for bring us back to that point Steve  :)
I am looking forward to the next episode on Friday.
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John Cook

06 September 2022, 01:01:51 AM #39
Quote from: fsn on 05 September 2022, 04:51:44 PM"What we were trying to do was to analyze what was important to Tolkien and to try to honor that. In a way, we were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves. The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. The worst type is dictated by demographics or what is hip or what kids are into." - Peter Jackson

"But that was then, this is now and we're telling the story now." - Lenny Henry.

C'est magnifique mais ce n'est pas Tolkein.

Peter Jackson and Lenny Henry are fluent in bullshit.

pierre the shy

06 September 2022, 02:20:18 AM #40
Quote from: flamingpig0 on 05 September 2022, 05:19:00 PMPossibly - as long as they keep the female elf


also - is this really really Tolkien or Frank Herbert?



Love the Dwarf's reaction about 0:30 seconds into the clip on seeing giant wormy things...."Ohhhhh come on!!!" ;)
 
"Welcome back to the fight...this time I know our side will win"

flamingpig0

06 September 2022, 03:14:03 AM #41 Last Edit: 06 September 2022, 03:48:02 AM by flamingpig0
Quote from: pierre the shy on 06 September 2022, 02:20:18 AMLove the Dwarf's reaction about 0:30 seconds into the clip on seeing giant wormy things...."Ohhhhh come on!!!" ;)
 

I had the same reaction
"I like coffee exceedingly..."
 H.P. Lovecraft

"We don't want your stupid tanks!" 
Salah Askar,

My six degrees of separation includes Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, and Wendy James

Big Insect

06 September 2022, 07:23:43 AM #42
Quote from: flamingpig0 on 06 September 2022, 03:14:03 AMI had the same reaction

I think you'll need to add that to the bottom of your posts FP  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
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flamingpig0

06 September 2022, 08:07:10 AM #43
Quote from: Big Insect on 06 September 2022, 07:23:43 AMI think you'll need to add that to the bottom of your posts FP  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

I edited my original comment as it involved mention of the well-documented Dwarf Vijyanta equipped armoured brigade and Witch Elf spider riders.
"I like coffee exceedingly..."
 H.P. Lovecraft

"We don't want your stupid tanks!" 
Salah Askar,

My six degrees of separation includes Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, and Wendy James

Big Insect

06 September 2022, 08:36:00 AM #44
"Ohhhhh come on!!!"
'He could have lived a risk-free, moneyed life, but he preferred to whittle away his fortune on warfare.' Xenophon, The Anabasis

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