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If you want a strong hand at the negotiation table you’re not going to start with “I am waiting for the call”. Im sure if they want Elrond in the film they’ll get Weaving back.

The only way I will watch more is after a cancellation where it won't help them. A Fred Savage lookalike talking to those two bozos? No thankee Jack.

and The Batman is pretty much just Se7en anyway.

True Detective Night Country is another example. It was a standalone story but HBO convinced the writer to shoe horn it into the True Detective universe by including some rather out of place and cheap call backs to the first series. it was terrible and I had a lot of fun hate watching what was genuinely one of the worst TV shows of all time but I think it fits your description above! HBO didn’t want to take a chance on a new show so used the established True Detective brand. Which is so unlike the HBO of old.

Yes, I’m confused by this too. The Lars Homestead is the same location in ANH as AotC. The rebuilt the dome in the exact same spot.

I think it’s clear everyone was just done while making it. A lot of it is phoned in.

Saw Return of the Jedi last night in the cinema. Been a few years since I last saw it but my opinion hasn’t really changed. It contains some of the best Star Wars (Space battle, throne room etc.) and some of the worst (the Luke, Leia and Han stuff on Endor when Luke tells Leia they’re brother and sister). There’s something fake looking about it compared to the first two films. It’s more obvious that it’s filmed in a set. And the matte paintings are so obviously matte paintings. Billy Dilly Williams walking towards the Falcon will never not be bad. But man, I forgot how amazing the lightsaber fight’s score is. Johnny really sells the whole thing.

Sounds like JJ Abrams and Episode VII. “A real actual desert”. because Tunisia turned into a fake desert between 1977 and 1997!

Titanic was a big hit so studios tried to recreate it and we got shit like Pearl Harbour. The Lord of the Rings was a big hit so we got shit like Narnia and the Golden Compass. The MCU was a big hit so we got the DCEU and Zack Snynder’s desaturate shit. Game of Thrones was a big hit so we got Shannara, Wheel of Time and Rings of Power. Reacting and trying to get your own version of something is never a good idea. Try and find the next big thing instead of aping what people already love. There’s a couple of bad orcs on The Hobbit so people tend to tar them all. Personally I’d take cgi orcs in Rings of Power is there was a modicum of good writing and acting. Style over substance. And even at that the style is derivative of what’s gone before.

Pretty much this. The Hobbits are flawed but I still find them rather enjoyable. There’s some merit to their existence even if they can’t touch the greatness of the LotR. Rings of Power is like MTV’s Sword of Shannarah. If Rings of Power was an original fantasy with no ties to Tolkien (as tenuous as they are) it would have been cancelled by now.

I won’t. Season 1 was too much for me.

The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy is better than everything!

A lot of people act like people only dislike this show because it breaks canon. A lot of people actually don’t like this show because the acting is bad, the casting is bad, the costume are bad, the writing is bad, the directing is bad, etc, if all that stuff was good I wouldn’t care less about the canon.

I watched season 1 and I think I engaged with this show too much. I won’t be watching anything else. not even bothering with the score that I found pretty so-so anyway

It’s bad because of the idiots and incompetent people making it. But what’s the justification to keep making it?