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Amph One Thread To Rule Them All: The Rings of Power + The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Trilogies

Discussion in 'Community' started by -Courtney-, Nov 25, 2006.

  1. Vialco

    Vialco Force Ghost star 5

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    Those Nazgul tombs were a ridiculous piece of architecture. There is no possible way that the people of Middle-Earth could have made those with their level of technology.

    That being said, they did look pretty awesome and very creepy, although the way Radagast just appears out of nowhere completely ruins the spooky aura of the scene.
     
  2. Darth Guy

    Darth Guy Chosen One star 10

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    Yes, and everything else is perfectly plausible. 8-}

    Psst. It's fantasy.
     
  3. Deputy Rick Grimes

    Deputy Rick Grimes Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    Same could be said about Helms Deep, Minas Tirith, etc.... :p
     
  4. Volderon

    Volderon Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    And those big giant statues carved out of the rock by Amon Hen.
     
  5. Deputy Rick Grimes

    Deputy Rick Grimes Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    People of Middle-Earth are great, they can build impossible stuff!
     
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  6. Barriss_Coffee

    Barriss_Coffee Chosen One star 6

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    Except banisters. There's a severe lack of decent staircase banisters anywhere in Middle Earth.
     
  7. KissMeImARebel

    KissMeImARebel Force Ghost star 5

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    To be fair, people in Middle Earth can build crazy insane things that WE can't build. It's just that it happened mainly back in their glory days in the First and Second Ages. Basically, they don't build 'em like they used to.
    I really liked that sequence too.
     
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  8. I Are The Internets

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    A wizard built the tomb. No seriously.
     
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  9. Slowpokeking

    Slowpokeking Jedi Master star 5

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    Beside Snow White and Robin Hood, which famous story could use LotR's movie material to make a trailer?

    I am thinking about dubbing Thranduil with some female characters' voice.
     
  10. EmpireForever

    EmpireForever Force Ghost star 8

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  11. Only-One Cannoli

    Only-One Cannoli Ex-Mod star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    The **** are you talking about mang.
     
  12. Jabba-wocky

    Jabba-wocky Chosen One star 10

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    He saw people talking about Kate being in the movie, and assumed they meant someone else.
     
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  13. Slowpokeking

    Slowpokeking Jedi Master star 5

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    I mean I am thinking about making another of these.




     
  14. EmpireForever

    EmpireForever Force Ghost star 8

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    Okay. Well. Stop doing that and start doing something else.
     
  15. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    OK, so just saw it.

    THoughts:

    1) It needed 110% less Legolas. There's still no depth to the character and Bloom is just ACTING SO HARD, which is puzzling since he delivers no payoff for it. Dreadful, dreadful inclusion

    2) The cities they visit, from Bree to Lake Town to the flashback of Dale looked fantastic; populated, living settlements. Much more so than they did in the LOTR trilogy (compare the Brees, or even Dale to Minas Tirith). Not only does this give insight into how other fantasy towns could look (thinking anything from Joe Abercrombie's works to the Salvatore Drizzt stories or Wheel of Time) but it gives Jackson and excuse to use the tech in the vastly inferior prequel films to go back and destroy the originals. Like someone else we know.

    3) Did the script contain lots of directions like "Thorin assumes a heroic pose" or "Thorin poses, stoically, before answering"? Or was that Jackson? Or Armitage? Either way, tonnes of posing.

    4) If Bilbo just yelled Fus Ro Dah! at Smaug he'd have had an easier time.

    5) Dwarf on elf action, lolwut?

    6) Gandalf used more spells in this film than he did in like... all four previous films combined.

    7) Always a pleasure to see Lord Melchett again

    8) The extra stuff, not in the novel, padded the film out but I felt was too heavy handed on foreshadowing LOTR.

    I enjoyed it, but yes... the best bit was when Legolas got the **** kicked out of him.
     
  16. EmpireForever

    EmpireForever Force Ghost star 8

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    Yeah, he's definitely making LotR Begins instead of The Hobbit with all of that extra stuff.
     
  17. laurethiel1138

    laurethiel1138 Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Well, we're still puzzling out how WE built some things, like Stonehenge and the stone men on Easter Island, not to mention how Precolombian architecture still stands up to this day, while the Colonial building constructed on top of said foundations has a tendency to go down whenever there is a strong enough earthquake...

    Lauré :)
     
  18. I Are The Internets

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    So when Bilbo puts the ring on, he can hear what the spiders are saying, yet when he takes it off, they're still talking to him. Did the ring just grant him permanent magical powers of understanding certain beings or continuity error?
     
  19. Rew

    Rew Chosen One star 5

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    So basically the Ring is the TARDIS translation matrix? :p
     
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  20. Ghost

    Ghost Chosen One star 8

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    They are?
     
  21. I Are The Internets

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    Yeah, he can still understand what they're saying when he stabs one spider and it starts yelling.
     
  22. duende

    duende Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    he has another ring on his pennis the whole time.
     
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  23. laurethiel1138

    laurethiel1138 Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    In other news, TDOS is still king of the Box Office, for a third week-end in a row, with a honourable $29.85 million, above Frozen with $28.85 million. It also added $98.3 million in foreign markets, of which $12.8 million came from its opening in Australia. So far, we have a worldwide total of $614.1 million ($190.3 domestic), which is very much a good sign considering that it's not been out for even a month already.

    We may yet reach the billion mark. Which would be good news indeed.

    Lauré :)
     
  24. Darth Guy

    Darth Guy Chosen One star 10

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    Why would it be good news? I'm not getting a cut of the gross. I think. Maybe I have a signed contract with WB somewhere around here...
     
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  25. laurethiel1138

    laurethiel1138 Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Well, there's this small matter of a third film upcoming, and as success seems to breed success, two smash hits in a row can't be a bad thing.

    Also: We can also rejoice in the good fortune of others, even if we gain nothing from it.

    Lauré :)