Lord of the rings is shit

Well that is an unpopular opinion. I think I might watch the extended editions this weekend now that you brought it up. Cheers!

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.

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.

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I don't like you.

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

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.

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!

The books are much better than the movies. and even then you'll want to skip a few pages.

I thought that once, but on rewatch my opinion changed. I love the trilogy, but it’s fine to dislike it.

I agree, the wizards don't do anything.

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?

From your comments, it seems like you may just not be in the target demographic for these kinds of films. It sounds like you're a teenager, and while there may be some teens who enjoy these films, they're definitely intended for adults. Also, you mentioned that you live in a non-english-speaking country. There's a lot of English films that manage to translate well to non-english-speaking audiences, but LOTR is unfortunately not one of them. The characters speak heavily in metaphor and idioms, most of which don't translate well. It's the same reason Western audiences often have difficulty with older Japanese media.

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I'm disappointed to see that there are posts on this community that are half-assed. I mean, come on, I see this kind of quality on another platform in another community of the same name.

You can do better...

Have to agree. I'm gen X and most of my gen loves 'em. I've always personally loved fantasy & science fiction. But both times I tried struggling my way through LotR it was like reading a dry, bland history textbook written my an academic in love with his own navel.

I also love Peter Jackson, but give me Brain Dead over any of the LotR films. They're pretty, but BORING.

*applauds harder

Thank you friend.

My sister completely agrees. She has watched the first one..

Or.. half of it, and fell asleep.

Or so she claims. Meanwhile she has watched a movie like "The abyss" a few times, which is also 3ish hours long

The lotr movies to have their fair share of uninteresting scenes.. personally i hate all scenes with gollum. And the last time i watched the movies i skipped all the scenes with him.. he is annoying and takes up the whole scene with his annoying drunk-kermit voice. I hate it so much.

Everything else about the movies are great. And i appreciate the use of practical effects rather than shitty cgi

Give the extended versions a shot!!!

I agree. The first little bit is okay, but then it’s two and a half hours of D-minor synthesizer droning and a lot of panicked faces and screaming. Tedious and exhausting for nothing.

Feh. Bah. The books are great, though.

It's been my experience that LOTR is something you either like or dislike.

I think if I hadn’t read the Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy previously in high school, I wouldn’t have enjoyed the movies. Seeing the characters in the flesh forming the fellowship was one of the most epic movie moments ever for me.

I read the rings trilogy preceded by the Hobbit as a teenager. Then did it again in my late 20s. I hate the movies. They drag on. The effects are lackluster. The acting is mediocre and not believable. That said I have no patience for cinema. My favorite movie is Big Trouble in Little China. I am not the target demographic for the rings movies. Someone likes 'em, and that's fine.

I felt this way for a long, long time, and I mostly still agree, but I love the universe.

I loved the animated Hobbit from the 80s and I highly enjoyed the Amazon Rings of Power series though, so I think there is something to the universe, just these movies aren't actually good ( to me )

Man, all the comments in here about the "boring" songs and poetry … do yourself a favour and don't ever even consider reading works like, oh, I don't know, practically anything by Goethe, Schiller, or Shakespeare. Or from the other side of the world, the novel A Dream of Red Mansions. Or that Indian epic Mahabharata.

They're not for short attention spans.

Did you ever read it?

#metoo

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.

While I recognise the enormous impact and world building Tolkien created, he really couldn't write for shit. The LOTR books are largely boring with small amounts of interesting stuff/action inbetween. Probably should have stuck to short for stuff like The Hobbit.