Its very boring, the films are too long and i have originally no idea how some people can have a yearly lotr marathon.
Well that is an unpopular opinion. I think I might watch the extended editions this weekend now that you brought it up. Cheers!
Dude ROTK has like a whole hour of movie after the final battle lmao at some point it’s ridiculous
Totally true to the book in that regard, shit refused to end on any kind of high note.
The ring gets destroyed about halfway through the last book
The rest of the book is almost equally divided between Aragorn getting inaugurated, going back to Rivendale, the scouring of the shire, life in the shire afterwards, Frodo Bilbo and the elves going to the undying lands, and then the appendices lol
Exactly. Being close to pissing myself in the cinema due to the incessant false summit endings soured that film a bit. Rewatching the extended version at home was amazing though.
fades to black Oh that seems like kindof a weird place to end, just stuck on a rock in the lava field.
fades to black Oh okay, so it was just a little transition. Yeah makes sense for aragorn to be king.
fades to black Alright, this is getting weird. Sam and Frodo are back in the Shire and Sam’s going to ask this girl out now?
fades to black Jesus, I get it okay. Frodo is headed off to the undying lands, cool.
That’s my abiding memory of watching it at the cinema as well. God I needed a piss so much.
The ring is destroyed like halfway through the last book. Tolkien was really into worldbuilding, and he refused to let the ring be the end of it. He had to ramble for another half a book about the fallout afterwards. Aragon getting crowned king, Frodo getting banished to the Shadow Realm, some more politicking in Rivendell, and I think we hear a little bit about the elves too?
I’m also not a fan of the series, FWIW. I read the books. Gave them a fair chance. And fucking hated every minute of it, because I kept expecting it to get better. Because everyone loses their shit over it, so it has to get good eventually, right? I’m a massive fantasy nerd, but LOTR is just a slog.
Don’t forget the part where they get back to the Shire and they fight off… just some dudes. Over some tobacco. They’ve fought orks, goblins, a giant spider and saved the fucking world. But their arc can’t be complete without fighting a couple guys in the woods I guess.
That’s how the books actually go tbf.
Thats the whole point of the sublemmy
Oh, I know.
Dunking on LotR, calling it a “sublemmy”, I see you and I respect your commitment to unpopularity.
Mhh yeah, i see you point
Now this is unpopular.
May god have mercy on your soul. LotR memes was one of the first communities to migrate over.
Now that’s an unpopular opinion! I disagree, well done.
Thank you
It hurts the soul but you have to appreciate the truth of the post. Damn this post got me good.
Herp?
Compared to how they would get made even today, 20 years later, they’re incredibly well-made and somewhat faithful to the material, shield-surfing, dwarf-tossing, no musical numbers, and no Tom Bombadil aside. The actors involved knew they were working on something special and gave it their all, sometimes even their toe. They stand as the pinnacle of fantasy adventure movies, nothing made before or since can even hold a candle to them, except from maybe the 1983 epic masterpiece, Krull.
They are beautifully shot, well acted, travel porn movies.
I cant really do anything with nice scenery, my sensory overloadet teenager brain with a 5 seconds attention spann is bored quickly
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LOTR is great. It’s pretty much the template of every single fantasy story written since the 20th century.
The Peter Jackson films are probably the best adaptation of any novel ever made, but with as long as they are, they’re TikTok videos compared to the books in the universe. Know that if you ever read any of them (the Hobbit is a great and short start btw), those fantasy tropes you see are coming straight from the source. Those greedy dwarves obsessed with gold were invented by Tolkien’s creative (and somewhat antisemitic) brain.
…btw, I assume you’re referring to the original Peter Jackson films. Saying that you don’t like the Hobbit film trilogy is not an unpopular opinion at all. In that case, I think the films were longer than the book lol
I listened to the first one as a 30 hour audio book, it was so boring and i always hoped smth would come but nothing, just boring
What about Tom Bombadil? He’s the greatest thing since sliced bread friend…
Was that the guy with the beard?
Do you have any idea how little that narrows this down?
Idk, im not that smart
Lord of the rings or the Hobbit? The LOTR books are a slow burn, but the Hobbit is a much easier read. The first one I read was the Hobbit and I don’t think I’d have gotten into the trilogy without it.
Lotr the fellowship of the ring
Is that the whole book? Thank you, maybe ill give it a shot
I mean the first one is boring, but it had to be to set everything up for the second two, which are much more exciting
Well, that is the point of this community after all
I hate LOTR! I’ve never heard anyone else say that. Thank you for making me feel less alone!
I made the mistake of reading the books before watching the movies. Say what you want about JRRT being a world building genius, the books are dull as shit. They are the most boring thing I’ve ever read. I was an avid reader at the time and ended up skipping large portions of the books to try to find any plot.
Of course that ruined any chance of me enjoying the movies. I tried watching Fellowship but I went into it with such a negative opinion after the books that it was unwatchable.
I hate LOTR too. So now there’s three of us.
I love the movies from what I remember, but I watched them as a kid.
I also loved the Hobbit novel. But I have tried on at least three occasions to start the book trilogy to no avail. Not sure what exactly it was, but I usually get through the first chapter and then my interest just dies. Maybe I will try an audiobook version next time.
All the people of my generation (Millenials) absolutely love the ever loving shit out of LOTR but the new one, Gen Z, are more into Marvel and fast paced movies from what I’ve seen.
And that’s fine. I will keep that epic and timeless masterpiece for myself 🤷♂️
In fact, I think I’m gonna get high and watch all 3 movies tomorrow to start my vacation properly. Thanks for the reminder!
Yes i do think this tik tok destroyed brains have smth to do with it but i like old films like charlie and the chocolat factory or the 1954 version of 20000 miles below the sea, just lotr is sooo boring for me
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Thank you, english is only a second language of mine
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I agree, the wizards don’t do anything.
That’s because they’re not wizards, they’re angels!
Angels are supposed to have a lot of powers too
Angels aren’t supposed to direcly interfere with the workings of humanity, except when dealing with other higher powers.
Oh…So all those religious zealots I grew up around that said otherwise were full of shit.
No, I’m being sincere here. I hate religion.
I had a friend at school who loved the book. I tried a few times to get into it and thought it was dull as anything so just passed on it after 200 pages or so.
Fast forward to the films and I actually enjoyed a lot of the first film but the 2nd and 3rd films I found pretty endless. Then later at university people wanted to watch the extended DVDs or whatever and I found better things to be doing those nights after the first time.
Everyone has different reasons for liking or disliking things, but for me my main dislike is the lack of genuine humour in the stories. It is relentlessly serious. I don’t mean I expect jokes everywhere but it’s particularly po-faced, the book especially. I tried reading it again a few years ago to see if I’d been too harsh on it but still couldn’t make it to the end.
So what you’re saying is that you don’t like one of the greatest fantasy epics of all time, the original that spawned the whole genre, because it’s not a good comedy?
That’s like complaining that your stove doesn’t have an 8k display 🤦
No, I’m saying that it takes itself incredibly seriously which to me - this is my own personal opinion - comes over as a bit pretentious.
Tolkien was attempting to build his own equivalent of an Anglo-Saxon epic from scratch and I get that . I even admire it. But I empathize with his friend C S Lewis (perhaps apocryphal) response when show the first draft “for Christ sake John, not more fucking elves…”
Like I say, I don’t expect Gandalf to be slipping on a banana peel while Frodo and Sam do a ‘Who’s on first?’ routine.
But for me there’s no change in pace, mood or objective to sustain my interest for the length of the whole work, which is probably why I generally more or less get on with the first book and enjoy the first film; but get less interested and eventually numbed to the rest of the story because it feels like endless servings of more of the same. To me it just comes over like, this happens, this happens, this happens then good triumphs like you knew it would.
Gollum is the only character that truly seems to go beyond a basic 'i am here to do this in the narrative ’ and is mercurial and interesting to watch/read
I think it’s more the fact that it doesn’t have any sort of levity, it’s full on all the time
That’s what epic fantasy is supposed to mainly do.
Also, that’s not even true. The characters of Pippin, Merry and Gimli, for example, are mostly comic relief throughout the movies and there’s a lot in the books too.
Just because the genre isn’t for you or the instances of levity fell flat for you doesn’t mean you have to make shit up 🤦
The characters of Pippin, Merry and Gimli, for example, are mostly comic relief throughout the movies
Fair
Curious what you think of The Hobbit since I think those are dog shit.
Also, what about Harry Potter? I don’t they’ve aged as well as LOTR.
Do you like the Rami cheese in Spider-man?
I love harry potter
