In a parallel universe, people are watching LotR movies one at a time, and not the entire extended trilogy in one go. Pathetic.
my mother in law does this! Drives me insane! “I just wanted to watch the two towers”. That’s IT? You didn’t feel the drive to immediately start RotK?
I watch them backwards starting from battle of the five armies.
I usually only watch the parts, where Legolas talks to Frodo.
First I watch the scenes with hobbits but not Frodo. Then I watch the scenes with Frodo but no other hobbits. Then I watch the scenes with Frodo and Bilbo but not Gandalf. Then I watch the scenes with dwarves and without Boromir. Then I seek psychiatric help.
I kept falling asleep they first 4 times, now it’s second nature
I once watched the extended cut in a cinema, all in one sitting. If I remember correctly, we started at 9 in the morning and went home after 10 in the evening. It was really cool. There weren’t many people attending. We got Chinese takeout in between and ate it during the second one, the cinema didn’t care about people bringing in food. Some people a few rows away looked at us annoyed. Might’ve been the smell, but I think they were just jealous that we had real food.
It was definitely the smell. Broke their immersion, as Chinese food is not lore friendly. Right?
Next time bring some baked goods and people can pretend they’re smelling Lembas bread.
Nah, if anything, we get to Eowyn’s soup and that just became a 4d experience.
You just reminded me of that copypasta that people used to post on R😫dd🤮t, ranting about the stew scene.
Sauce
Not sauce, no: Stew.
This is so good i know for sure Eowyn didn’t write it
Po-tay-toes!
It actually works great as a mini series if you watch it like a TV show over a week or weekend.
Also, if you can find the Hobbit fan edit called ‘M4’, that’s actually worth adding into the marathon.
Also, if you can find the Hobbit fan edit called ‘M4’, that’s actually worth adding into the marathon.
Is it better than the Tolkein edit? That’s the one I am used to.
Yeah, they really went all out on the M4, loads of thought and time went into it.
Much better than the other one, I felt they only made a Tolkein effort.
I felt they only made a Tolkein effort.
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Sorry, that one I’m not familiar with. Probably similar goals, although I think M4 is supposed to be one of the most ambitious. It certainly radically changed the tone and pacing. I didn’t even bother finishing the original trilogy when it came out I found them so disappointing and generally boring.
The only way I’ll ever watch the theatrical release again is if it’s re-released in HFR 3D. Watching them in that form was amazing, even though the movies themselves were not good.
I wasn’t super keen. HFR is a real double edged sword. It makes everything look more realistic, but unfortunately what you’re looking at is Martin Freeman in rubber feet.
Shame you can’t watch at home though. 3D HFR may be dead on TVs, but VR headsets have been around a while now. If I can watch 60fps 3D 180° porn livestreamed from Eastern Europe, I’m pretty sure a multi-billion dollar corporation could figure it out as well to let me watch a movie.
And none of it helps me look past the fact that the movies were gash.
The tech is there for sure, just not in any format major studios are interested in. The market is too small. Hell, we don’t even get Blu-ray releases for a lot of stuff anymore.
I mean, we’re talking about an industry that hardcodes black bars in streaming movies. They don’t give a shit about the tech.
