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10 hours ago, JTWfan77 said:Bernard Shaw as Theoden
Bernard Hill 😂
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32 minutes ago, SilverTrumpet said:
All I want to know is if that big rumor about Helena redoing all of Indy's adventures is true or not.
I believe that was always nonsense
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19 minutes ago, Brónach said:
it sounds to me like Mutt died
Could he be away in Vietnam?
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Yeah, major Rise of Skywalker vibes here.
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5 minutes ago, Chen G. said:It does seem they share a lot of Abrams' sensibilities.
Mystery box ☑️
Style over substance ☑️
Bad writing ☑️
Talking a good game to try and fool your audience ☑️
I’d say they were grown from the leftovers of one of JJ’s tissues or something.
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Gil-Galad is an awful w⚓️
The writing is the show’s biggest flaw (aside from the costumes). The show runners and writers… you would wonder how these people with limited experience or success got these jobs in the first place. I’m still not willing to rule out the whole thing being a money laundering exercise!
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1 hour ago, Richard Penna said:
Me too about 4 or 5 years ago
I actually bought RotK first because I found it very cheap, then the next day I found someone selling all 3 sealed for again, a very reasonable price, so I have two Minas Tiriths. And because my brother and I both bought copies of the DVD back when they came out and he emigrated, it means I have four copies of the EE
Unfortunately one of my Argonaths lost his hand when I was moving things around one day, but it's not like I'm going to sell these onto anyone else so I don't care too much.
Agree about Gollum.... he's weird and he currently serves as a bookend for some of my Blu-rays.
Imagine a home video release today with 2 bonus discs of extras and a statue along with it? Unthinkable in 2023 unfortunately. -
That and the Evenstar are both Noble Collection pieces I bought on Amazon. The ring came with the 4K boxset of all 6 films.
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1 hour ago, Jay said:
I still use my argonath bookends and minas tirith keepsake holder. i never knew what to do with the gollum statue. it just lingers around collecting dust
Yeah. I think that’s why he’s so cheap!
I got the DVDs as they came out but the gift sets were too expensive for 11/12/13 years old so it’s nice to get them now. Tracked down still sealed sets too.
This is how I’m displaying them
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It’s always the most expensive of the three for some reason.
In every set of LotR items there’s one film that costs more than the others and it’s never the same one!
Gift Sets is Fellowship (the book ends I suppose)*
Soundtracks is TTT (extra track I guess but you’d imagine RotK’s DVD would be more sought after?)
Art Books is RotK. I have no way of explaining that one. Maybe it was a smaller print run with the Art of Trilogy book coming out.
*TTT is easily the cheapest. I guess the Gollum statue isn’t as desirable as the Argonath or Minas Tirith.
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Excellent and thorough answer Jay! Thanks very much.
I’m hunting down some of the tie in material released with the films 20 odd years ago and I’ve just been trying to fill in the gaps of knowledge of what’s what
I’ve gotten all 4 art books (one for each film plus a 4th one with art from the first three books + art not in the first three), the gift sets of the EE DVDs (to get the statues), and I am going to get the three Limited Edition soundtracks as well. Already have RotK and Fellowship is in the post. I know they’re not really essential but they’re just nice to have.
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I’m sure this has been covered before but the bonus track on the TTT special edition, Farewell to Lothlórien. Is this music included elsewhere or is it considered an alternate worth having for completeness sake.
Is it a theatrical version not present on the regular Fellowship OST or CR? Or is it part of one of the CR tracks.
I suspect it’s the theatrical gift giving scene but I’m not sure. (I don’t have the track itself to check)
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On 9/5/2023 at 1:45 PM, Jay said:
Well you made a post that was presumably about Bear's work on the show, and then spend most of the post talking about how This Wandering Day is especially bad, but since he didn't write that (and had not yet even been hired when it was written and performed), it sort of makes your entire post in retrospect not really say anything about Bear's work at all. If that makes sense.
I dislike all the music associated with the Harfoots regardless of who wrote it. It’s twee and a cheap imitation of Celtic music.The rest of the score I rather like. Working through it I definitely don’t need every note of it like I do a Howard Shore or Horner, or Williams score that I really like and maybe the OST (minus a couple of tracks) might be enough but it is something I will definitely revisit over the years. Unlike the show.
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Not sure who composed matters. It’s not very good.
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The Pope’s Exorcist.
Full of cliches and the writing in general in paper thing but Crowe seemed to be enjoying himself!
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Bear McCreary must be a big fan of the books because there’s no way the show inspired him to write some of this music.
The Galadriel we see in screen absolutely does not justify that theme which I’ve found to be a real war worm.
I think the vocals are where he falls down though. The Wandering Day or whatever it’s called is a bit too much of a pastiche. It sounds like someone bought a CD of Irish McIrish ballads in Carroll’s in Dublin on holidays and this is their knowledge of an Irish ballad. I don’t much care for it. His Celtic touch in general sounds too much like an American’s interpretation and suffers. I don’t care for Where the Shadows Lie either. It would make a great theme but I think the singer really struggles to match the lyrics with the vocals and I don’t care for her voice either which kinda sounds like a Shirley Bassy parody.
But in general the score is very enjoyable. I would definitely buy a complete release of season 1 on CD if ever it were to be released.
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RoP season 2 won’t face any disruption on account of the writers guild strike.
ChatGPT isn’t in the WGA.
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1 hour ago, Brónach said:
he was killed in a bathroom by an slave or something like that? i don't remember it. or am i mixing up monarchs here.
my ancestors are weirdos.
He was killed in the baths by a wrestler.
His death was followed by the year of five emperors… so yeah you can tell that shit hit the fan.
I imagine this film will be set 20 years post the original anyway so things should have calmed down by then.
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Yes, there’s lots of threads for a good show or shows on the second age of middle earth.
unfortunately this is not it. It’s generic fantasy with Tolkien names.
Credit where credit is due though, I did like this Elendil. He seems like a decent guy doing his best for his family, country, and honour. I can definitely see him as the forefather of Aragorn.
This Isildur… I don’t think I’ll have much sympathy for. Which brings me to the fakeout death for Isildur… why?!??
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7 minutes ago, Chen G. said:
With all that mind, going into season two, there's reason to believe:
Tom Bombadil and Shelob are a thing in this; there's a second Sauron actor, both for flashbacks to Adar killing Sauron AND for the Annatar scenes. The season ends with the sack of Eregion, in a siege that seems to involve the Orcs drying up a stretch of river to get to the walls.
So its not like the writers decided to completely change the way they were writing this...
No it seems the criticism has just washed over them and they’re believing their own bullshit
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2 hours ago, Schilkeman said:I’ve said before that George made a “George Lucas picture” with this one. It’s a comic book movie, like all of his films, not in the modern way, but in a golden age way. I enjoyed the film much more once I came to that realization.
If you watch it in this way it’s a hell of a lot of fun. The Nazis are moustache twirling villains but the dogfights are *chef’s kiss*
p51s just look perfect in any situation.
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