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Is ‘The Rings of Power’ Getting Review Bombed? Amazon Suspends Ratings
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | Sept. 2, 2022 | JAMES HIBBERD

Posted on 09/05/2022 12:32:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: BenLurkin
the writing is lazy, dull, and unoriginal, with chunks of dialog both large and small lifted almost verbatim from other equally average productions.

There's nothing new to offer in terms of storytelling.

Peter Jackson had done it 20 years ago. So what is Amazon doing with the story right now?

41 posted on 09/05/2022 1:41:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: BenLurkin

You don’t have to be racist to notice that dwarves spend a lot of time deep underground where the sun don’t shine, so would derive no benefit from heavy melatonin.

On the other hand, I seem to remember something from the final battle in The Return of the King, where Tolkien mentions the Haradrim of the Southlands, dark and proud.


42 posted on 09/05/2022 1:42:12 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: MinorityRepublican
Peter Jackson had done it 20 years ago. So what is Amazon doing with the story right now?

The true magic of Tolkien's world is that his stories begin literally with the creation of the world by God (and he's made it clear that his god is God), with massive things happening long before the events of LOTR. So there are plenty of stories to tell about what happened before the events of LOTR.

By the way, Tolkien's "creation" story is absolutely beautiful. It is basically God singing, and joined by his angels, and the shape of the world is made by the songs they sing. And of course, his Lucifer figure, Morgoth, doesn't like the song God is singing, and wants to sing his own discordant tune....

Anyway, the reason so many Tolkien fans are upset is because there was so much more that could have been done well.

43 posted on 09/05/2022 1:47:26 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: wgmalabama
Unfortunately certain people now think Wakanda is real.


44 posted on 09/05/2022 1:50:13 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What they’re doing makes perfect sense.


45 posted on 09/05/2022 1:52:16 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ignoring Tolkien apparently. The aficionados are more on top of that than am I.


46 posted on 09/05/2022 1:56:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Anyway, the reason so many Tolkien fans are upset is because there was so much more that could have been done well.

True. But they will have to determine the direction they are going in. Game of Thrones, it was clear. It was a giant chess match and everyone was fighting over the throne.

47 posted on 09/05/2022 1:58:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: flamberge
The old white guys cast as the elf high king and councilors look like a bunch of hair-salon poofters and metro-sexual politicians. Their decision to disband military forces makes no sense at all, considering that the high king admits that he knows "the shadow" is still extant somewhere. Apparently, he does not want to stir up any trouble by keeping Galadriel around to find "the shadow".

The whole thing about Gil-Galad essentially exiling Galadriel back to Valinor was bizarre.

48 posted on 09/05/2022 2:00:13 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s generic comic book fantasy borrowing a few Tolkien character and place names, otherwise it’s spun from used toilet tissue.

Blasphemous garbage


49 posted on 09/05/2022 2:01:56 PM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: Pearls Before Swine

The melatonin of dwarves? What a weird thing to obsess on while watching a show about magic and dragons.


50 posted on 09/05/2022 2:04:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

To me it was like someone wrote a bare script outline;
Some one else came a long and plugged in some more lines;
Then they picked a place where they could make some pretty CGI;
Some one else hired a bunch of daytime soap actors that insisted on looking the same so their fans would recognize them - except the whole idea of their ‘fans’ was a publicists idea to keep them happy;
Marketing came along and asked how they were going to sell that mess;
Some one said just say it an adaption of a work by a famous writer, after casting around a bit then came up with Tolkien;

And that’s how it was sold - a work by Tolkien. “You’ll love it, Jeff,” they said.


51 posted on 09/05/2022 2:06:27 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: M_Continuum
I agree 100%. I just watched the first episode. I am entertained and thogh there is lots of CGI...I am impressed.

My wife, who did her college thesis on Tolkien was also impressed. We have both read the Silmarillion. This series has so many elements from that tome. I dare say...anyone who trashes this production has not read it nor do they really understand Tolkien.

Just my humble opinion. I'll watch as many as Amazon can give while I wait for Ringworld.

52 posted on 09/05/2022 2:09:11 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: M_Continuum

I been watching and it seems okay to me. I think it’s at least derived from the prequel to the LOTR trilogy, The Silmarillion. It’s the back story to Galadriel, Elrond, the Hobbits, probably Gollum and Sauron. I haven’t seen anything that really twists my shorts.


53 posted on 09/05/2022 2:14:59 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: M_Continuum
After all the talk here I watched the first episode. I saw no gay couples or any of the other allegations. Cinematography was well done. I don’t blame Amazon, many of the negative reviews are unverified.

I made some fun of it and posted some 4Chan memes but I did wind up watching the first episode.

It was better than I expected, and a helluva lot better than "Wheel of Time" which was intended to be a major Amazon franchise.

It's no "Game of Thrones" but episode 1 didn't completely suck either.

And, yes, a multicultural cast is kinda to be expected in 2022 but it wasn't totally woke.

I'll probably give it a chance. And FWIW, other that "The Hobbit" I've not read any other Tolkien books and I still have yet to see the Peter Jackson films so I'm not really up on the lore.

54 posted on 09/05/2022 2:27:12 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I watched part of the first episode. It was all I could deal with.

The episode varies between being boring to the point of falling asleep, to being laugh-out-loud absurd; and throw in a dollop of not so great acting.

There’s a black elf who could be a stand-in for Don Lemon.

The Harfoots, which I guess are supposed to be proto-Hobbits, seem to have Irish accents, but they look like recycled Not from Stargate SG-1; or perhaps hair conditioner hasn’t been invented yet.

And the Galadriel character, who seems to be one of the major characters, is both a rather poor actress and she portrays a character who manages to be both a Karen and a Mary Sue. She has a permanent bitchy attitude and is portrayed as some flawless character, which makes her both boring and unlikable.


55 posted on 09/05/2022 2:32:51 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: dfwgator

“LOL, nope.”

Speaking of “Nope”, don’t bother with that, either. Another one of Jordan Peele’s horrible diversity, inclusion and equity films. He’s the 21st century’s Spike Lee, except possibly worse.


56 posted on 09/05/2022 2:39:51 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: MinorityRepublican

I have watched She-Hulk (a comedy, but a waste of Tatiana Maslany’s talents) and the 1st 2 episodes of Rings of Power and have enjoyed both (although skin color does not appear heredity in Rings). Neither deserve the criticism I see folks giving them.


57 posted on 09/05/2022 2:42:30 PM PDT by BamaBelle
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gender confused Hobbits and Elfs?
I’ll pass.


58 posted on 09/05/2022 2:47:04 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
There are plenty of stories in Africa that Hollywood can explore. How about the Adventures of Mansa Musa?

Or "Little black Sambo"? Tee-hee.

59 posted on 09/05/2022 2:50:25 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: flamberge
hair-salon poofters

Poncy Hairdressers?

60 posted on 09/05/2022 2:54:06 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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