The Hunt for Gollum
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Nobody has done this. Likewise, how good The Hobbit films are has nothing to do with how good Rings of Power is. Everyone is free to dislike RoP.
I brought up The Hobbit because there is an ongoing sentiment that LotR was suddenly made terrible by RoP. My actual point was that The Hobbit films, which were the latest material released by the team very closely aligned with the amazing LotR trilogy (i.e. the same director, same actors), were dog poop (in part because they largely retread ‘old ground’)… except for the dragon, which was pretty ace
The franchise has been handled terribly before and, personally, I don’t have confidence that retreading it again is going to add much.
Caporegime
The hobbit films were garbage because they tried to string out a single shortish book into 3 films and positioned it as a weird pseudo children’s set of films.
Well, that and they were gererally badly executed at almost every turn.
RoP was just garbage and managed to hit a lot of the pitfalls of modern TV.
I think many of us just ignore the fact the hobbit films were ever made due to their unsavoury association with the fantastic originals. I still struggle to understand how they went so wrong with so many of the right people.
I doubt this will be great but I do love Serkis in almost everything.
Well, that and they were gererally badly executed at almost every turn.
RoP was just garbage and managed to hit a lot of the pitfalls of modern TV.
I think many of us just ignore the fact the hobbit films were ever made due to their unsavoury association with the fantastic originals. I still struggle to understand how they went so wrong with so many of the right people.
I doubt this will be great but I do love Serkis in almost everything.
Soldato
I thought the Hobbit films were ok. I liked them, obviously not as good as lotR trilogy.
Saw the plot on another forum
Sounds intriguing, swap the ring for a religious book though.
just need a jar jar binks trilogy and my life will feel complete
The Gollum video game was such a financial success, they decided to go all in
Can’t wait for the gut wrenching wokeh activist story about a poor hobbitstinian, who is chased from his home and land, brutally tortured and eventually murdered by settler colonial orcs and their leader, Elder of Ziovalar, Pipi Sauronetanyahu, who wants middle earth because Eruyahweh promised it to his chose colonialists!!! What a tragic story! If only they let innocent Gollum be free in his land with his precious! From the Anduin river to the Nurnen sea, Mordorstine will be free!
If only the poor hobbitstinian Gollum made different choices throughout key events in his life, all this suffering could have been avoided
Sounds intriguing, swap the ring for a religious book though.
just need a jar jar binks trilogy and my life will feel complete
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The hobbit trilogy have moments of excellence in each of them, they are largely 'ok'. Where as amazon's rop is the 'writers' taking a steaming **** on Tolkien and his writing.
Anyway, looks as if this is the 1st of the new movies in the deal that wb/newline struck with the embracer group a little over a year ago. Hopefully they've learnt their lessons.
Anyway, looks as if this is the 1st of the new movies in the deal that wb/newline struck with the embracer group a little over a year ago. Hopefully they've learnt their lessons.
Caporegime
Rings of Power was produced by a completely different set of people and a completely different studio. It doesn't really have anything to do with this.
Not sure how I feel about an ever greater raking through Tolkien's work for morsels to base fan fiction films off and after the wasted disaster of The Hobbit trilogy, I'm really not very hopeful about this: it's not like Jackson's involvement was enough to make that good. But, hey, maybe they'll learn from the mistakes of The Hobbit and produce something amazing.
Not sure how I feel about an ever greater raking through Tolkien's work for morsels to base fan fiction films off and after the wasted disaster of The Hobbit trilogy, I'm really not very hopeful about this: it's not like Jackson's involvement was enough to make that good. But, hey, maybe they'll learn from the mistakes of The Hobbit and produce something amazing.
Soldato
We really don't need a 3 hour movie about finding gollum 
In fact, knowing Hollywood, they'll string it out to a trilogy.
Please just leave the lord of the rings franchise alone now. The hobbit and rings of power have tarnished Tolkien's legacy enough already.
In fact, knowing Hollywood, they'll string it out to a trilogy.Please just leave the lord of the rings franchise alone now. The hobbit and rings of power have tarnished Tolkien's legacy enough already.
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