It had some cringey bad dialog.
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It had some cringey bad dialog.
There is no point in watching it. The whole plot is a fabrication with the most tenuous of connections to anything Tolkien wrote.
The problem with the Hobbit was how Peter Jackson tried to milk it by making that into another trilogy. There is simply not enough content in the source material to do something like that. The Hobbit is a single book with 300 pages. The Lord of the Rings is three books with 1536 pages total. The tone is also totally wrong since the Hobbit was always meant to be much more of a small children's book.
The problem with the Hobbit was how Peter Jackson tried to milk it by making that into another trilogy. There is simply not enough content in the source material to do something like that. The Hobbit is a single book with 300 pages. The Lord of the Rings is three books with 1536 pages total. The tone is also totally wrong since the Hobbit was always meant to be much more of a small children's book.
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That is most probably the reason for why I got "Hobbited out" of the movie.
Cross posted from the Chinese Entertainment Thread:
Xin Shen Bang Yang Jian in HD with subs
It is a very nice movie imo, altough I lack the culural affiliations to fully understand subtleties, especially during the last 1/4. Subtitles are a bit whacky in English.
So far this Movie is objectively the best from light chaser animation studio story and setting wise. I don't know Yang Jian or Erlang Shen, so I don't know if the story in this movie is based losely on something or is original. New Gods: Nezha was very close to the original tale bar the diselpunk setting.
Second best from the studio would be New God: Nezha, then White Snake lastly Green Snake
Overall one of the best Chinese animated films, with Jiang Ziya and Dahufa
Xin Shen Bang Yang Jian in HD with subs
It is a very nice movie imo, altough I lack the culural affiliations to fully understand subtleties, especially during the last 1/4. Subtitles are a bit whacky in English.
So far this Movie is objectively the best from light chaser animation studio story and setting wise. I don't know Yang Jian or Erlang Shen, so I don't know if the story in this movie is based losely on something or is original. New Gods: Nezha was very close to the original tale bar the diselpunk setting.
Second best from the studio would be New God: Nezha, then White Snake lastly Green Snake
Overall one of the best Chinese animated films, with Jiang Ziya and Dahufa
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I watched the Lord of the Rings Season 1 and House of the Dragon Season 1 back to back and the latter is clearly the superior work. It's a pity, because I actually thought the first episode of LOTR was quite promising. It seemed to replicate the atmosphere of Jackson's LOTR films, which is no mean feat. Alas, it was all downhill from there, with poor dialogue, narrative and character development.
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I have become a huge fan of Denis Villeneuve's films (if you don't recognise the name, his two most recent films are Dune and Blade Runner 2049). All those I have seen I have rated highly, and tonight I added Sicario to the list. Being from Australia, the Mexican-American borderlands are something I am only familiar with through film and literature. I can't speak for "accuracy", but simply as an artistic exercise, the sense of foreboding that Villeneuve's team creates in Sicario, the sense that this is a land where law, reason, morality, compassion, and indeed all human qualities go to die, is remarkable. Check out this scene from early in the film:
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Agreed, just on taste grounds.
J-20 plays its role in saving humanity...
