Why the hell would she be going to Valinor with a ship full of troops? You only go there when you tire of Middle Earth

Morfydd isn’t an attractive woman…….. she”s Sondra Lockish…..

The writing quality is at the level of a CW teen drama. These idiots have delusions of grandeur thinking they could get  anywhere near Tolkien's story telling, world building, or dialog

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They literally rewrote the entire backstory.  The Noldor didn't revolt against the Valar, it was a heroic pursuit of Melkor.  Her brother (doesn't say his name, presumably Finrod, but she had three) is killed by Sauron after the War of Wrath.  Elves only get to return to Valinor as a reward for, something, IDK, but Gil-Galad can apparently grant access.

The book was good.  The movie as "Starship Troopers" is a complete and utter abomination that takes out everything important and then flips the rest.    It's what you get when you have someone who hates the book make the movie.    I wanted a Starship Troopers movie until we got it.    It's what convinced me I probably never want to see one of my favorite books made into a movie again.  They won't do it right.   Now the movie as a generic "Bug Hunt" movie.  Meh.  I wouldn't hate it.  It'd be a cheesy b movie.

No power armor.  No History and Moral Philosophy.   None of the other things the book really covered.    No nukes.    You've got a bunch of idiots w/ rifles running around doing stupid things.

Can't argue with any of that.

There are only a very few books, where I thought the movie did the book justice (and in some cases, I think I actually preferred the movie, over the book, which I already liked).

13th Warrior is one of the few, where I enjoyed the movie more than Crichton's short'ish novella. SK's 'Misery' was another that translated well.

The issue I have, is with screenwriters/directors/producers who take established source material and decide to rewrite/reimagine everything. As Robert Jordan said, "Go write your own shit and quit fucking with MY universe, you fucking turdlickers" (paraphrased).

It's one thing to claim, "Inspired by..." and another to change everything, but then try to bank on the established fan base, by cribbing the name.

I enjoyed LOTR but I was never a big follower of the whole thing so I'm kind of lost here.  I guess this is before the five rings?  I guess at some point later in the series, Elrond's balls are going to drop and he grows up to become King Agent Smith?

Now that Galadriel didn't go into the light of the Golden Glowing Vagina and jumped ship, does she go on to become the Semi-wicked Witch of the Woods?

Why are there illegal aliens and sea worms in the ocean leading to the Undying Lands of the Golden Glowing Vagina?

Funny how the best tits of humanity ended up with the only homey elf in the nine realms!

Well…

Made it through episode one. It is truly terrible.

I’m betting it doesn’t improve.

I wish the top half of Galadriel's outfit was as see-through as the bottom half.

I'm not giving them the click for me to even check out 5 minutes of it.

If it doesn't have Doggy Style like game of bones it will fail.

Because the Elves are as venal as Hollywood producers and she is not listening to The Men.
So they promoted her to shut her up and protect the Narrative that All is Well in Middle Earth

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I've got prime and I'll watch at least part of one episode, but they won't get any info on it.

The guys on night shift forced me to watch it.

The actor playing Gil Galad reminds me of Calculon from Futurama. "My incredible AAACTIIIING ability!"

And am I the only one who calls the dude playing Elrond "Gay Elrond"?

Not as bad as I was expecting.

Wow, not even at the top on the watched shows on amazon, currently at 4 getting beaten out by The Boys, The Terminal List and Reacher. I guess its still new, so will prolly rise, but I think they usually shoot to the top when they're just released if theres actual enthusiasm. With the $$$$ they spent on it thats got to hurt.


https://flixpatrol.com/top10/amazon-prime/

So, she’s a Democrat?

Watched 2 of them giving it a fair shot even though I did hesitate to start watching it at first.

It's not great, its not totally horrible, but if you told me to give you a billion dollars and this was the first 2 parts of it, I'd pretty much light your house on fire.

It's not overall bad to look at but they really have failed so far at making you feel how vast the world actually is. They drew out things that didn't need to be or weren't that interesting, yet when Elrond travels to Kazad Dum it was a 3 second trip on a map or the entire exchange on how/why they should build a new forge other than 'lets make pretty things' was just an afterthought whereas it should literally be a key plot device.

The overall acting is hollow as fuck and story lines are just all over the place.

Other things that either didn't make sense or were just dumb:

- So lets be sent on an expedition to find any trace of Sauron. Find it. And then end up with a vote of no confidence from your entire platoon 5 minutes later. Show absolutely nothing after that and fast forward to everyone being rewarded with a trip to Elf Land like they're all great friends. What? Absolutely none of this makes sense, answers no questions and then its just kind of doesn't exist anymore.

- I hate origin type stories where the main character(s) are obviously NOT going to die or make a decision we already know they didn't make. Why even bother with the whole dumb 'I jumped off a ship 500 miles off shore' story line? We knew you didn't go, just like I wasn't even a tiny bit worried that the sea snake thing was going to kill you. Because you're alive, not in Elf Land, a few hundred years in the future in a movie/series we've all already seen. Stop wasting my time.

- I can't take Elrond seriously. I keep waiting for them to introduce us to his 4 boyfriends that he takes turns sucking off for inspiration to go do faggot elf things or to make a story arc of him meeting some other male elf and having to make a decision about fucking him in the ass or being an 'elf lord'.

- That guy in a meteor or whatever should have just landed on-top of that HairFoot village. They are the Ewoks of this series already.

- Black HairFoot guy has a book that apparently tells the future but lets not get into that at all. Let's also not investigate that giant ass explosion that your 2 dumbest fucking members managed to find right away that impacted like 200 yards away from your village.

- I am assuming by the 'so evil it takes the heat from the flame' thing said earlier that meteor guy is evil as shit. He obviously has some magical powers yet can't communicate worth a shit which is fine as it can stretch the story out until everyone has a realization they've been helping an evil guy. But that whole story-line just feels like some dumb Disney movie and I really don't care, other than WTF is he. There's absolutely zero fear or darkness to it and they almost try and make it funny at times. Totally retracts from what that could be.

- So lets abandon ship 500 miles off shore. Swim in a big ass dress only to encounter some people adrift. Then be attacked by a sea snake, swim 100 feet away and you're totally safe. Sea snake totally gone.  While we're at it lets tie ourselves to a stick, sink to the bottom of the ocean in perfectly clear water, to then be rescued and pop up 12 feet away from the raft in a giant storm. Way suspense. Much scary.

- Break rocks, have hurt feels and then sit down for dinner with my black dwarf wife. 12-15 minutes. Let's talk about some thing or artifact we have (that I didnt even understand WTF it was because this was done so fucking poorly) that is apparently important in a hush hush way. 30 seconds. Can anyone even tell me what the significance was when the 2 dwarven leaders were talking? It was like they had something and it was a big deal but lets not actually give any fucking useful info out about it.

- Hey guys, you know that town thats like 2 hours away we all know people at? Yeah? Well its burned to the ground, everyone is gone, there's holes all underneath it and some cow that went near there now shits out black milk. Nobody cares or bothers to even go investigate or call the elf cops.

- Goblin's digging holes under your town? Oh noes. Let's all just pack up and leave and go to the elves that we don't actually like.

I am 90% sure the item in Durin’s box is one of the 3 Silmarils. The story seems to take place after Maedhros threw himself and his silmaril into a fissure in the earth and Maglor threw his into the sea. Tolkien’s work does not reveal the fate of these 2 silmarils after these events, so unfortunately they are fair game to the storywriters.

And Galadriel’s pardon and offer of the Valar to return to Valinor has nothing to do with her girl-boss bravery in battle, but rather the fact that she did not participate in the kinslaying (as I mentioned in my last post). So Amazon is straight up re-writing the lore in this case.

IMDB is apparently deleting bad reviews, there are no 1 star reviews. I didnt realize it, but IMDB is owned by Bezos and Amazon, so thats relevant. Maybe its been mentioned here but I missed it if it has.

That is pathetic.
It’s like having your mom judge your Art exhibit.

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I think that could end up having the opposite effect of what they intended.

With any luck, hopefully someday someone makes a Silmarillion movie that is true to the book and not woke…….

let's not turn this thread into the many many ways you are wrong

Starship Troopers is a great movie

There's way too much backstory and hype.

Not sure why they even have the slightest expectation they can run cover on this cluster fuck

I think it's an entertaining movie, but because it's "so bad, it's good."

I mean I've probably seen Road House more times than any other movie in existence, but I'm not about to proclaim it a "great" film.

Deleting bad reviews only causes people to watch it.  At which point, they don't imagine what a pile of steaming shit it is, they actually get to experience the steaming pile of shit and come away hating it more than if they read the review and didn't watch in the first place.

No amount of CGI can fix this.

No wait, lemme fix that.

"Amazon prime video says out loud that their content sucks so bad, they dare not let anyone rate it."

The hollywood accounting style tricks are in full swing.

They *cannot* fail, they must not fail, they do not care what they have to do.



ETA: anyone care to bet on if the 72 hour "you shall not post reviews" gets extended?

... and they've been talking about how it HAS to have high view totals.

They are scrambling around doing whatever they can to get people to click on it.


Watch them not release the viewership times - how long people watch episodes. Watch them especially not tell people if there are points in shows when huge numbers quit watching, which would indicate what those viewers didn't like.

But you need the men to play the role of simpletons. And we wonder why our boys are failing in society…

This is another nope show.

I quibble wish H-K a lot because we nerd out on the same kind of stuff. He’s wrong a lot (LOL) but this is not one of those times.  He’s also right about Roadhouse, which makes twice in one day.

@Hunter-Killer

Lets just cut to the chase here and get down to the important issues.

Dizzy or Carmen?

We got 3/4 through the first episode just now and had to turn it off.

Complete waste of time, woke, predictable and bad acting.

Nvmd doublepost

I figured its the Arkenstone from the hobbit, the stone that glows and  that drives the descendants of Duran mad with dragon sickness at the end od the hobbit.

Figured thats why Duran's father is all paranoid about the elves stealing it and his treasure. Already starting to get sick

Wouldn't it be a little early for Arkenstone?

Maybe it's Nauglamir.

Both, but if both isn't an option....

I'd probably have to go with Dizzy. Carmen is undoubtedly better looking, but girls that gorgeous tend to be bad/lazy in bed (horrible head, just lie there, etc.)  Whereas Dizzy would work her ass off to impress you.

I got more entertainment out of Lothar of the Hill People.

Maybe we will see. I dont yet trust amazon to stick to chronology of the books.

So far not too bad. Diversity was unnecessary and a bit forced, but tame. Nothing yet jammed down my throat as of ep 2, still time to ruin it tho. The 1 fight was too showy but forgivable. Main character seems ok cast as an elf. Main character has major flaws that are addressed (and a bit overly played) despite being "an empowered woman". Not all white men are evil or incompetent as of yet.

But admittedly my bar is a bit low after how they butcheted my beloved wot. So we will see.

Enron starts into vulgar gay love scenes, or the black elf starts dealing with racial oppression or white elf privilege and i am hitting the stop and not resuming. But so far i am actually cautiously optimistic.

Different than the standard fan review:

Dizzy is def ride or die. . . . but damn, no way I'm not picking Carmen