Because blue fantasy is notoriously hard to make palatable in a movie format, and a 15 year old kid writing blue fantasy mixed with hackney tropes is definitely not good material to pull it off. The first book was a decently fun romp, and then the rest were just meh.
I honestly liked the books too. But I also know they aren't exactly literary masterpieces and I had to think of something to juxtapose against LOTR :) ... and then there's the movies 😵
Interrupt 5 minutes into Fellowship during Isildur's death scene throwing your hands up in the air saying "I'm sorry, I'm having trouble suspending disbelief here. Isildur, supposedly descended from the bloodline of Númenor, was taken in and controlled by a wish dot com version of Celebrimbor's craftsmanship? Come on! I can't watch this garbage any longer."
I once saw a list of "things to say during a LOTR screening". Sadly the only one I remember is: when the Ents are marching to war, stand up and shout "run forrest, run!"
Calling it the Sequels implies that The Hobbit is the Originals, which is typically considered superior in many canons, versus the more popular mindset of LOTR being the Original and then The Hobbit the afterthought Prequels
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jumperalex@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 324d
Tell them this is the second best Sci-Fi/Fantasy movie you've seen.
When they ask for the first best, tell them "Eragon"
sunoc@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 324d
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 324d
Why has nobody ever made a good movie out of those books?
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 323d
Because blue fantasy is notoriously hard to make palatable in a movie format, and a 15 year old kid writing blue fantasy mixed with hackney tropes is definitely not good material to pull it off. The first book was a decently fun romp, and then the rest were just meh.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org · 2 pts · 324d
I loved Eragon as a kid. I read all the books in release. The movie was so embarrassingly bad even for my ten year self.
jumperalex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 323d
I honestly liked the books too. But I also know they aren't exactly literary masterpieces and I had to think of something to juxtapose against LOTR :) ... and then there's the movies 😵
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 324d
Interrupt 5 minutes into Fellowship during Isildur's death scene throwing your hands up in the air saying "I'm sorry, I'm having trouble suspending disbelief here. Isildur, supposedly descended from the bloodline of Númenor, was taken in and controlled by a wish dot com version of Celebrimbor's craftsmanship? Come on! I can't watch this garbage any longer."
sundray@lemmus.org · 31 pts · 324d
Wait until it's quiet. And then: "Oh, I get it! It's like Game of Thrones for babies!"
Klear@quokk.au · 8 pts · 324d
elguapo@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 324d
“A dwarf and elf in love? See! It’s just like the Hobbit movies.”
“Is the Balrog like Smaug?”
“Is Aragorn supposed to be Bard’s son?”
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 324d
"Why are the hobos so small?"
"Is there plumbing in these holes?"
"I think Dumbledore would kick his ass."
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 320d
Happy cake day!
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 324d
"So why are the elves tall? I thought elves were small."
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 324d
I once saw a list of "things to say during a LOTR screening". Sadly the only one I remember is: when the Ents are marching to war, stand up and shout "run forrest, run!"
cerement@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 324d
so, after the nine-hour New Zealand travel documentary, can we now watch LotR?
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 324d
ryan2one3@mstdn.ca · 8 pts · 324d
@PugJesus diabolical! 😂
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 5 pts · 324d
I guess that that's what Billy Butcher is. His actor is also Eomer (I believe) in the Lord of the Rings movies, so very fitting.
dontsayaword@piefed.social · 7 pts · 324d
Karl Urban
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 2 pts · 324d
Yep, that's him.
ryan2one3@mstdn.ca · 3 pts · 324d
@FerretyFever0 @PugJesus yup, Eomer. That's why I used that specific gif. 😀
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 324d
foodandart@feddit.org · 6 pts · 324d
LOL! Oh, that's just cruel. I love it!
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 324d
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 1 pts · 324d
What's the turmoil exactly? The Hobbit movies were advertised as prequels (and way overblown, sadly).
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 324d
Calling it the Sequels implies that The Hobbit is the Originals, which is typically considered superior in many canons, versus the more popular mindset of LOTR being the Original and then The Hobbit the afterthought Prequels