Is this the best series ever made?
Now that the dust has settled? Yes.
>>72036187
Far from it.
Objectively yes.
>>72036187
homer.jpg
BORING!
You guys are insufferable posting this every day.
They are shit. Its been threaded in the Overrated movies thread. Stop posting about them
Asoiaf is so much better.
What. What. Go ahead lay it on Dicks.
>>72036187
nothing else even comes close i'm serious
>>72036295
They are both bad but lotr is much better pleb
Why didn't they just fly the mt doom to the eagles
>>72036187
Its an overrated piece of trash for lowly educated guys with bad taste. There are far greater stories than this, but the usual mouth breathing neck beard isnt familiar with anything beyond fucking hobbit stories.
Literally the only people I know that are obsessed with LOTR never went to college.
>>72036187
Objectively, yes.
>>72036388
>>72036293
>>72036295
Your right it is better, oldfags are just butthurt
>>72036388
>There are far greater stories than this
name a few
hello reddít
>>72036441
No anon, have you ever read Hypersion? War and piece? His Dark Materials?
Off course not, they're more than simple straightforward fantasy movies/novels with forced emotion. People with poor reading skills cant appreciate novels like that.
>>72036450
>>72036343
Oh Sam carry to the mountain and suck my hobbit dick.
Yeah so much better anon.
Unequivocally yes.
>>72036388
This.... Is an observation I've never realized but is accurate.
Only Fellowship of the Ring is good.
>>72036388
>>72036552
samefag
>>72036441
I saw you in the other thread do you have 2 images?
>>72036577
Your mother
Also His Divine Comedy. Dante's Inferno is perfect for a movie adaptation, but Jezus freaks in US would never allow for it.
no
>>72036577
Other guy here, how does it feel to be that fucking retarded?
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/george-r-r-martin-the-rolling-stone-interview-20140423?page=4
>Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?
>The war that Tolkien wrote about was a war for the fate of civilization and the future of humanity, and that’s become the template. I’m not sure that it’s a good template, though. The Tolkien model led generations of fantasy writers to produce these endless series of dark lords and their evil minions who are all very ugly and wear black clothes. But the vast majority of wars throughout history are not like that.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3110466/Game-Thrones-creator-defends-rape-scenes-Author-says-dishonest-boring-leave-sexual-violence.html
>'But if you’re going to write about war, and you just want to include all the cool battles and heroes killing a lot of orcs and things like that and you don’t portray [sexual violence], then there’s something fundamentally dishonest about that.
how could one man be so based?
>>72036712
THIS
>>72036836
Yes so they're simple stories for simple people.
>>72036295
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek2O6bVAIQQ
>>72037246
TL;dw
>>720367121>3>2; All good, but I thought Dead by Dawn was too light with the humor to avoid coming off as lame horror. The hand was the only bit that worked for me.
>>72036836
Wow it's almost like Tolkien wrote this shit 60 years ago and literally created the entire genre or something.
>>72036187
Only a sith deals in absolutes
>>72037699
What a shitty line.
>>72037708
4 u
>>72036209
fpbp
>>72037667
You know he borrowed heavily? Like he for sure did work but he had a lot built for him in early English literature
>>72037825
He also took a lot from history, the Borgias etc.
>>72036295
>[overly long acronym]
who?
>>72037825
>>72037963
What do you expect him to build his ideas from otherwise?
LotR trilogy is a masterpiece.
>>72038018
Im talking about martin you faggot
>>72038018
I'm just saying I always heard he built this shit and then I read some of the shit he took from and it's like oh shit he didn't build it from scratch I just thought it was interesting man fuck you.
LOTR are my favorite boring flicks to fall asleep to
>>72036712
Currently watching Ash vs Evil dead, will watch the trilogy later tonight because of my fucked up sleep schedule
>>72036187
Lotr fags are the worst.
>>72036836
If you read Tolkien's letters, you'd realize that in his political vision there would be no such thing as a "tax policy" or "standing army".
You may call that naive, but it's hypocritical to only apply such standards to Tolkien. The truth is, everyone does this shit to their favourite political systems. No one criticizes Ursula Le Guin for creating a communist utopia in "The Dispossessed", and even GRRM has a perfect utopia in his books, the Summer Islands, that is completely naive and ahistorical.
>>72038745
>GRRM has a perfect utopia in his books, the Summer Islands, that is completely naive and ahistorical.
What is Denmark?
Close, but no.
>>72038802
A nordic social democracy.
>>72036482
>Off course
Sick education bro, you seem to be a bit off course though
>>72038812
What the fuck happened to movie posters? Did all the good designers just die?
>>72036609
>implying you can't (you) your self
>>72036712
Army of Darkness is shit
>>72036295
Well boy, I'm afraid you're not quite mature yet, come back when you're older, ok?.
>>72036384
They're going to a land where orcs and heaps of other scary shit control every corner, pretty sure they'd get shot down in an instant.
I got so hard when i saw this scene in the movie theater.
Probobly my favorite moment i ever had watching a movie ever specially in the cinema.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTz7EAYLrs
>>72036577
nah
>>72038042
Only if you were 12 at the time your first saw it, and maybe a bit of a numbnut too.
Those movies have a lot of good things going on, but a whole lot of facepalming bullshit too. I, for one, was not surprised when I saw the total disaster that was the hobbit: everything wrong about it was already there in the first trilogy, just slightly hidden behind one or two good ideas and performances.
Just take a look objectively at the fabled battle of helm deep: It's great right? No, it's utter shit. Instead of being tense and epic, it's scene after scene of comedic moments (lol), dwarf jokes (lmao), orcs being a laughstock of incompetence (rofl). Pathetic directing.
>>72041849
>The Calvary has arrived to save the day: terrible CGI edition
>favorite moment i ever had watching a movie ever
It sucks dick bro, hard.
If we're talking about "multiple movies set in same lore", the list is Godfather, Star Wars, LOTR
If trilogies then Star Wars, LOTR, Man With No Name
>>72040141
I did not know that it was possible to be this wrong.
Probably not even top10
>>72043176
>numbnut
who's the 12 year old now?
>>72043250
You're a fucking pleb those are shit exceot the godfather
Harry potter grossed most and was the most consistent and critically acclaimed. They are all good except the Goblet of Fiyah
Also more comfy than lotr I will fight you for that
Dekalog
Cavalry trilogy.
Three Colors.
Zombie's Halloweens
Evil Dead series
original Star Wars trilogy.
Before trilogy
Pusher trilogy
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
Kaurismaki Finland trilogy
To's Election
WKW's The Informal Trilogy
Europa Trilogy
Godfather
maybe next time
>>72043635
oh forgot Mad Max series.
The Superior Jacksonkino
>>72036482
Some of the laziest bait I've ever seen.
>>72043539
>the series with 8 movies grossed more than the series with 3
>>72043673
thinks nobody
>>72043673
You think you're shitposting but you're not. It is superior, though not by much.
>>72043730
You thought you weren't retarded, but you are
>>72036836
How come GURM doesn't understand that you can only have this much innovation when you write a book?
No one wrote fantasy before Tolkien ever so it'd be frustrating as hell for reader to see gore and violence in LOTR. Too new and obscure.
>>72036187
that's not Three Colors or Before Trilogy
>>72036482
>hypersion
>war and PIECE
>off course
and then you go on to talk about "people with poor reading skills"
either this is a near-perfectly crafted piece of bait or we might just have found the most pretentious poster on this board
>>72043751
>No one wrote fantasy before Tolkien ever
L
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Fucking /tv/ NEVER EVER fails to deliver the PLEBBIEST SHIT out of the media boards
>>72036187
No Tom Bombadil makes tLotR a dull trio.
What the fuck did this thing even eat? Hoy shit.
How the fuck were there only rumours of the fall of Moria? What? They had no communication with the outside world? Nobody went to check up? Why bother mining if you have no trade? Yeah I read part of the Silmarillion and I know that's in the dwarves nature to mine because God, but why would they have literally no allies? Clearly this happened a while ago if they're all literally skeletons now?
Theres literally no reason for there to be even a possibility that Moria isn't completely fucked in the eyes of the fellowship. It should be continent - wide knowledge.
Also what the fuck was up with Sarroman telling Gandalf to doubt the plan to go to Moria? I get it's exposition but who is he talking to? Himself? He can't be talking to Gandalf psychically, why would he want him to not go to Moria? There is no reason why he should be saying those words. Is he just talking to the audience? That was lazy as fuck.
>>72043816
he was pure magik
>>72036836
>What was Aragorn’s tax policy?
What the fuck? It's whatever the feudal fucking tax was back in the day, not important to the story
>Did he maintain a standing army?
Probably, at least for a while to fight the human remnants of Sauron's forces
>What did he do in times of flood and famine?
Send help?
>And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains.
Exactly! They live in the fucking mountains and no one cares
>The war that Tolkien wrote about was a war for the fate of civilization and the future of humanity
IIRC Sauron offered Aragorn vassalization
>and you don’t portray [sexual violence]
Are orcs sexually attracted to human women?
>>72036187
Too jewish.
So... no.
>>72043176
Peter Jackson has said many times that he makes movies for himself. He puts in things he finds funny, action scenes he thinks look cool. He's less concerned with preserving the integrity of the source material than he is with having a good time directing and making a movie he finds fun.
>>72043717
It grosses mre than the entire james bond franchise and at least 15 or something mcu.
Also lotr is overrated it got destroyed in the overrated movies thread. Only fellowship is remotely good
>>72043904
>what is inflation
This is your average Harry Potter fan.
>>72043717
Loook at the top grossing series harry potter btfo star wars, lotr and the hobbit, james bond and marvel, until the last couple years because they have 22 films or something
>>72043916
Did you not read marvel? It has btfo out of marvel if you break it down marvel is only ahead because they have made three times as many films.
Hell the last 3 bond films have probably grossed 2 billion alone. Harry potter had 7.7 billion in 8 films and managed to beat 20 something james bond films and 15+ marvel films. Stop trying to say its not impressive.
>>72043717
>muh epic ignoring
On average its the highest grossing and it was the highest grossing save the MCU who have a shitton of movies
>>72043784
Fag.
>>72036836
Almost as if LotR is a completely different type of story.
>>72044037
But he's right
>>72044070
what was jesus' tax policy?
>>72036187
>Is this the best series ever made?
No. Most overrated series ever made is closer to reality.
>>72036450
Terminator and T2 are best movie-sequel combination ever.
Original Star Wars trilogy.
>>72037246
Mr cuck tongue
>>72036187
Can't really disagree desu.
I don't know any other 4 hour movie that doesn't feel stretched out or boring during any part of it.
>>72036295
lotr founded fantasy as we know it today
It could be argued that ASOIAF borrows concepts from LOTR, as do many other fantasy works.
>>72036295
> Tolkien
Works on his magnum opus tirelessly for nearly two decades without paying heed to publisher pressure to relase more books. Release his work in its complete form and without mistakes.
> GRRM
Releases his books unfinshed without any concrete plan to complete them. Lets a couple of tv hacks finish his work for him.
>>72044422
>star wars is better than LOTR
lol this is bait but come one dude try harder with your "im a retarded opinionated pleb" bait
>>72043539
>Half Blood Prince
>good
Fuck off, that piece of shit ruined the best book in the series by cutting out half the important stuff and putting in """original""" content because they thought the book didn't have enough action.
Also censored the fuck out of it compared to the books, combined with the dogshit acting of Radcliff and Watson.
>>72045189
>he critiques the film which is a different medium for a reason based on the book
Literally insufferable. The adaptation works and the tone matche's the book and story. Your opinions about the book don't have anything to do with the film its dreary and dreamlike and one of the best. Watson was fucking good and Dan was drunk which somehow works because the little effort he's giving kind of makes it seem more natural and at ease
>>72045189
There's barely even any action in half blood prince your sperging over a two minute scene. Watson was good she was funny and endearing. She was good in all of Yates'. Radcliffe was ok
>>72036712
The first one is kinda shit though.
>>72044256
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
>we will never get a proper animated adaptation without CGI and without things being cut
>>72036836
>dark lords and their evil minions who are all very ugly and wear black clothes.
Just change it with Ice lords and their evil minions who are all very ugly and wear clothes, this dude is a fucking hack.
>>72045719
The first one is the best, pleb.
Batnolan>
Usually LOTR threads are comfy but this one is shit tier tbqh
Why didn't Saruman communicate more with his boss so as to strike at the same time?
>>72043816
Whatever he fucking wanted
>>72036836
>implying there's ever been a period of history with that much political turmoil and all around edgy behavoir
>>72036836
>fat neckbeard talking shit
lol
